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Rachel Emma Simmons formerly Woolley

Born 7 Aug 1836 in East Rochester, Columbiana County, Ohio, USA

Ancestors

Daughter of Edwin Dilworth Woolley Sr. and Mary Wickersham

Sister of John Wickersham Woolley, Franklin Benjamin Woolley, Samuel Wickersham Woolley, Henrietta (Woolley) Simmons, Edwin Dilworth Woolley, Edwin Gordon Woolley Sr [half], Sarah (Woolley) Sutton [half], Mary Louisa (Woolley) Clark, Joseph Wilding Woolley [half], Henry Alberto Woolley [half], Hyram Smith Woolley [half], Orson Alpin Woolley [half], Marcellus Simmons Woolley, Edwin Thomas Woolley [half], Amelia (Woolley) Wardrop [half], Mary Ellen (Woolley) Smith [half], Ruth (Woolley) Hatch [half], Olive (Woolley) Kimball [half], Fannie (Woolley) Parkinson [half] and George Edwin Woolley [half]

Wife of Joseph Marcellus Simmons — married 1851 [location unknown]

Descendants

Mother of Joseph F Simmons and Lucy (Simmons) Snow

Died 30 Nov 1926 at age 90 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA

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Rachel became a member of the LDS Church between 1830 - 1848.

Rachel (Woolley) Simmons was a Latter Day Saint pioneer.

Biography

Rachel was born in 1836 in Ohio, United States.

Church Ordinance: Baptism on August 7, 1844 (Reference: Family Group Sheet-Father)

Excerpts from the Diary of Rachel Emma Woolley (Reference: Guide to Mormon Diaries &Autobiographies. Bitton, Davis):

Born in Ohio, 1836. Parents joined LDS Church, 1839. To Nauvoo, c. 1840. Recollections of that city. At Winter Quarters. To Utah, 1848. Experiences on journey. Difficulties of first winter. Married Joseph M. Simmons,1851. Difficulty in accepting plural marriage. Utah War. Economic difficulties of family. Became midwife, 1878. Daily entries begin 1881. Daily routine. Church attendance. Long entries on family activities. Feelings about anti-polygamy actions of federal government.

Travel overland to Salt Lake Valley: Rachel initially traveled to the Salt Lake Valley with the Brigham Young Company in 1848 with her parents, Edwin Dilworth and Mary Wickersham, and her siblings, Franklin Benjamin and Mary Louisa. Mary Louisa was born on 5 July, while the company was camped at Goose Creek. Also in the company was her aunt and uncle, Samuel Amos and Catherine Elizabeth Mehring.

When the family made it to the Salt Lake Valley, they ate with her father's brother, John Mills Woolley, who had traveled to the Salt Lake Valley the year before with the Abraham O. Smoot/George B. Wallace Company in 1847, according to Rachel Emma Woolley Simmons’ Biography.

She passed away in 1926 in Utah, United States.

Fact: Burial Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA

Sources

"United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH2W-B13 : 30 December 2015), Rachel Simmons in entry for Joseph M Simmons, 1860.
Find A Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com : accessed 2 December 2016), memorial page for Rachel Emma Woolley Simmons (1836 - 1926) - Find A Grave Memorial.
Membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints 1830-1848, Volume XLVII, WIN—YOC Compiled by Susan Ward Easton Black, Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1988. https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE5800000
LDS Pioneer Overland Travel 1847-1868 web site: https://history.lds.org/overlandtravel/pioneers/2625/rachel-emma-woolley

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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Rachel by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Rachel:

~3.12% ~6.25% Mia K Sherman : 23andMe, GEDmatch PS3103301 [compare] + Autosomal DNA Test, GEDmatch EF9772856 [compare], yourDNAportal MIAd1cf9fba
~3.12% Mark Smith : Autosomal DNA Test
~1.56% Derra (U) Yates : 23andMe
~1.56% Delene Alldredge : 23andMe + MyHeritage DNA
~1.56% Gary West : Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch F135362 [compare], FTDNA kit #135362
~0.78% Jared West : AncestryDNA, Ancestry member jaredawest + Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T045959 [compare], FTDNA kit #386476
~0.78% Gale Hammond : AncestryDNA, GEDmatch SM5652936 [compare], Ancestry member genweaverdd + Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch SM5652936 [compare], FTDNA kit #645723
~0.78% ~1.56% Jan (Merkel) Hase : AncestryDNA

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Rachel Emma (Woolley) Simmons (1836 - 1926)

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