Maria Mitchell

1843 - 1923  (79 years)

• Name	Maria Mitchell
  Birth	14 Apr 1843	Liverpool, Lancaster, England
  Gender	Female
  Baptized (LDS)	22 Aug 1854
  Endowed (LDS)	20 Sep 1861	EHOUS
  Death	19 Feb 1923	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
  Burial	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)
  Marriage	7 Oct 1832	Manchester, Lancashire, England
  Sealed P (LDS)	23 Jan 1889	LOGAN
  Family ID	F159	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	James BROWN
  Marriage	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
  Marriage	4 Jun 1864
  Family ID	F180	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map	Load the map	Birth - 14 Apr 1843 - Liverpool, Lancaster, England Death - 19 Feb 1923 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Burial - - Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

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  Horrocks, Maria Mitchell Position #9 on map (G-6).