Parthenia (Works) Booth (1811 - aft. 1850)

Born 23 Jun 1811 in Aurelius, Cayuga, New York, United States

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Biography

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

Parthenia was born in 1811 in Cayuga County, New York, the daughter of Asa Works and Abigail Marks.^[1] She and her husband Lorenzo Booth were early LDS (Mormon) converts who followed Joseph Smith from New York to Kirtland, Ohio and on to Nauvoo, Illinois.^[2] Later they joined the exodus from Nauvoo to western Iowa, there to prepare for the final trek to Utah. Neither would reach their destination. Lorenzo died before September 1849,^[3] and Parthenia passed away sometime after 24 September 1850^[4] - almost certainly before her younger sons Mosiah and Hyrum set out, separately, for the Salt Lake Valley.^[5][6]She may still have been living in April 1852, if the "Pelena" Booth requesting help at that time was she.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Works, James Marks; personal correspondence, Letter to Brigham Young, 25 March 1877. LDS Church History Library, 15 East North Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150. CR 1234 1, box 37, fd. 17. Transcribed by M. Hemphill, Works researcher and descendant of James M. Works. Identifies his parents as Asa Works and Abigail Marks, and all of their children in order of birth: Joseph Tunnicliff, Abigail, Miriam, Adaline, Dulsena, Parthen(i)a, Angeline, Jerusha, Asa Daniel, and himself, James Marks.
2. ↑ "Utah, FamilySearch, Early Church Information File, 1830-1900." FamilySearch, unindexed images (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-897B-H44V?i=1072&wc=M6TX-PWL%3A357506301&cc=2078505), BOOTH, Parthenia (WORKS), born 23 June 1811. citing Backman, Milton V., A Profile of Latter Day Saints of Kirtland, Ohio and Members of Zion’s Camp, 1830-1839; Vital Statistics and Sources. Provo (s.n.), circa 1982. – xii, p. 7.
3. ↑ Ancestry.com. Seventy Quorum Membership, 1835-1846, database online (https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dllti=0&indiv=try&db=70membershipvitals&h=281) , citing Black, Harvey B. Seventy Quorum Membership, 1835–1846: An Annotated Index of Over 3,500 Seventies Organized into the First Thirty-Five Quorums of the Seventy in Kirtland, Ohio, and Nauvoo, Illinois. Provo, Utah: Infobases, Inc., 1996. Private Donor.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZ4J-ZBG : 12 April 2016), Bathenia Booth, Pottawattamie county, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States; citing family 475, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
5. ↑ Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel: John Tidwell Company (1852) (https://history.lds.org/overlandtravel/companies/14/john-tidwell-company-1852), Identifies Hyrum Ebenezer Booth, age 10, as a member of the company.
6. ↑ Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel: Daniel A. Miller/John W. Cooley Company (1853) (https://history.lds.org/overlandtravel/companies/205/daniel-a-miller-john-w-cooley-company-1853). Identifies Mosiah Works Booth, age 15, and his stepmother Jane Hawley Booth, as members of the company.
7. ↑ "Utah, FamilySearch, Early Church Information File,1830-1900." FamilySearch, unindexed images (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-997B-H474?i=1076&wc=M6TX-PWL%3A357506301&cc=2078505). Bongers, Hannah – Bowen, Norman R, cards #756-758 (images 1077-1079 of 5150). BOOTH, Pelena [Parthenia?}. Date(s): March, 5 April, & 12 April, 1852. Event(s): "Need help," in March and on 5 April; "Need help - 2 sons" on 12 April. This person appears in: "A Journal of the Emigration Company of Council Point, Pottawatamie, Iowa, In the Summer of 1852," typescript copied in Provo, UT by the Brigham Young University Library.