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Clark, Sylvia Porter Sessions

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31 July 1818

Carter, Our Pioneer Heritage, 10:415; “Sessions, Sylvia Porter,” in Black, “Membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830–1848”; “Clark, Sylvia Porter,” Patriarchal Blessing Index, 1833–1963, microfilm 392,643, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; “Sessions, Sylvia Porter,” Individual Record, FamilySearch Ancestral File (Ancestral File no: 1H4D-3M) (accessed 16 Aug. 2012).

Comprehensive Works Cited

Carter, Kate B., comp. Our Pioneer Heritage. 20 vols. Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1937–1977.

Black, Susan Easton, comp. Membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830–1848. 50 vols. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Department of Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University, 1989. Also available as “Membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830–1848,” LDS Family History Suite: LDS Vital Records Library, CD-ROM ([Provo], UT: Infobases, Inc., 1996).

U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

FamilySearch Ancestral File. Compiled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. https://www.familysearch.org/search/family-trees.

–12 Apr. 1882.

Carter, Our Pioneer Heritage, 10:415; “Sessions, Sylvia Porter,” in Black, “Membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830–1848”; “Sessions, Sylvia Porter,” Individual Record, FamilySearch Ancestral File (Ancestral File no: 1H4D-3M) (accessed 16 Aug. 2012); Josephine Rosetta Fisher, Affidavit, Bountiful, Utah Territory, 24 Feb. 1915, in Joseph F. Smith, Affidavits about Celestial Marriage, 1:18; Obituary for Sylvia P. Clark, Deseret News, 19 Apr. 1882, 208.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Carter, Kate B., comp. Our Pioneer Heritage. 20 vols. Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1937–1977.

FamilySearch Ancestral File. Compiled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. https://www.familysearch.org/search/family-trees.

Smith, Joseph F. Affidavits about Celestial Marriage, 1869–1915. CHL. MS 3423.

Deseret News. Salt Lake City. 1850–.

Born in Newry, Oxford Co., Maine.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Carter, Kate B., comp. Our Pioneer Heritage. 20 vols. Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1937–1977.

U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

FamilySearch Ancestral File. Compiled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. https://www.familysearch.org/search/family-trees.

Daughter of David Sessions and Patty Bartlett.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Carter, Kate B., comp. Our Pioneer Heritage. 20 vols. Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1937–1977.

U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

FamilySearch Ancestral File. Compiled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. https://www.familysearch.org/search/family-trees.

Moved to Far West, Caldwell Co., Missouri, Nov. 1837.

“Josephine Lyon Fisher: Her Parentage,” Bountiful Historical Museum, archived 9 April 2013, https://web.archive.org/web/20130409192215/http://www.bountifulutah.gov/historicalcommission/fisherjr01.html (accessed 30 June 2022).

Comprehensive Works Cited

Bountiful Historical Museum. http://www.bountifulutah.gov/historicalcommission/index.html.

Married Windsor Palmer Lyon, Mar. 1838, in Far West.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Carter, Kate B., comp. Our Pioneer Heritage. 20 vols. Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1937–1977.

FamilySearch Ancestral File. Compiled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. https://www.familysearch.org/search/family-trees.

Moved to Nauvoo, Hancock Co., Illinois, by Feb. 1841.

“Sessions, Sylvia Porter,” in Black, “Membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830–1848”.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Identified in some sources as a plural wife of JS, sealed 8 Feb. 1842.

Josephine Rosetta Fisher, Statement, Bountiful, Davis Co., Utah, 24 Feb. 1915, in Joseph F. Smith, Affidavits about Celestial Marriage, CHL; incomplete affidavit (“Cylvia Lyon”), 1869, in Joseph F. Smith, Affidavits about Celestial Marriage, 1:60, 2:62.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Smith, Joseph F. Affidavits about Celestial Marriage, 1869–1915. CHL. MS 3423.

Moved to Iowa City, Johnson Co., Iowa Territory, June 1846.

Carter, Our Pioneer Heritage, 10:415; “Josephine Lyon Fisher: Her Parentage,” Bountiful Historical Museum, archived 9 April 2013, https://web.archive.org/web/20130409192215/http://www.bountifulutah.gov/historicalcommission/fisherjr01.html (accessed 30 June 2022).

Comprehensive Works Cited

Carter, Kate B., comp. Our Pioneer Heritage. 20 vols. Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1937–1977.

Bountiful Historical Museum. http://www.bountifulutah.gov/historicalcommission/index.html.

Married Ezekiel Clark, 5 Feb. 1850, in Iowa City.

Carter, Our Pioneer Heritage, 10:415; Johnson Co., IA, District Court, Marriage Records, 1839–1910, Grooms’ Marriage Returns, 1842–1900, “Baker,” 23 Jan. 1851, microfilm 1,704,852, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Carter, Kate B., comp. Our Pioneer Heritage. 20 vols. Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1937–1977.

U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

Migrated to Salt Lake City, 4 Aug. 1854.

Carter, Our Pioneer Heritage, 10:415; Josephine Rosetta Fisher, Affidavit, Bountiful, Utah Territory, 24 Feb. 1915, in Joseph F. Smith, Affidavits about Celestial Marriage, 1:18; “Clark, Sylvia Porter Sessions,” Church History Biographical Database, https://history.ChurchofJesusChrist.org/chd/individual/sylvia-porter-sessions-1818?lang=eng (accessed 7 July 2022).

Comprehensive Works Cited

Carter, Kate B., comp. Our Pioneer Heritage. 20 vols. Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1937–1977.

Smith, Joseph F. Affidavits about Celestial Marriage, 1869–1915. CHL. MS 3423.

Pioneer Database, 1847–1868. Compiled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/overlandtravel.

Moved to Bountiful, Davis Co., Utah Territory, by June 1860.

1860 U.S. Census, Bountiful, Davis Co., Utah Territory, 350.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.

Died at Bountiful.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Carter, Kate B., comp. Our Pioneer Heritage. 20 vols. Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1937–1977.

FamilySearch Ancestral File. Compiled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. https://www.familysearch.org/search/family-trees.

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