Darrin & Andrea Lythgoe's Genealogy Pages

Maria Mitchell

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Name Maria Mitchell Born 14 Apr 1843 Liverpool, Lancaster, England Gender Female Baptized (LDS) 22 Aug 1854 Endowed (LDS) 20 Sep 1861 EHOUS Died 19 Feb 1923 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Buried Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Notes - BAPTISM: Maria was rebaptized on 23 Sept 1888.
BURIAL: Headstone is just west of her father's.
Maria Mitchell Brown Horrocks-- As a young girl(12 years old) she came across the plains to Utah in the James Brown Company. James (Capt of Company "C" in the Mormon Battalion and founder of Ogden) told Hezekiah that he would like to marry Maria when she got older. She married him when she was 17 (1859). He got his arm caught in a molasses mill in 1863, gangrene set in, and he died. They were childless, although I heard just recently that she was pregnant once but miscarried. The next year she married Edward Gregory Horrocks, who also married Maria' sister Elizabeth. Edward committed suicide in 1886, he hung himself in an adjoining orchard. (Depending on the story, he committed suicide because A) Maria was his favorite wife, but she had already been sealed to Brown; B) His 3rd wife Ida Maria Johansen like to drink, and he was starting to take up the habit; C) He was having financial difficulties and his job as a store clerk would not support his large (16 children) family.) It is interesting that on Edward's headstone are 16 marbles, I think each one represents a child. (From D. Bruce Robinson)
From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
Person ID I381 Lythgoe-Donaldson Last Modified 5 Oct 1999
Father Hezekiah Mitchell, b. 31 May 1810, Simondsley Gloss, Derbyshire, England , d. 25 Sep 1872, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
(Age 62 years)
Mother Sarah Mallinson, b. 16 Nov 1810, Pitsmoor, Yorkshire, England , d. 10 Apr 1883, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
(Age 72 years)
Married 7 Oct 1832 Manchester, Lancashire, England Sealed P (LDS) 23 Jan 1889 LOGAN Family ID F159 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 James BROWN Married 7 Oct 1859 Pres.Office, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Sealed S (LDS) 7 Oct 1859 EHOUS Family ID F179 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Edward Gregory HORROCKS Married 4 Jun 1864 Family ID F180 Group Sheet | Family Chart
- BAPTISM: Maria was rebaptized on 23 Sept 1888.
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Event Map Born - 14 Apr 1843 - Liverpool, Lancaster, England Died - 19 Feb 1923 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Buried - - Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah = Link to Google Earth
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Headstones Horrocks, Maria Mitchell
Position #9 on map (G-6).