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Show 3434 DA UGHTERS OF U TAH PIONEERS She stayed with Ann Steele Murdoch's family for a while then they were assigned to American Fork. Here she met David Wood and was married in the Salt lake Endowment House. Elizabeth was known for her pleasant disposition. She was a hard working woman. She was a home nurse and also worked at other jobs. She was honest, industrious, frugal and a very good manager. Elizabeth passed away at the age of seventy-four in American Fork and is buried in the American Fork Cemetery. ELLEN PLUNKETT WOOD BIRTHDATE: 1839/40 near Brockville, Leeds, Canada DEATH: 21 Mar 1886 Plymouth, Amador, California PARENTS: William R. Plunkett Sarah Canada/Kennedy PIONEER: IS Sep 1852 Henry B. H. Jolly Wagon Train SPOUSE: Andrew Patton Wood MARRIED: 3 Nov 1857 Drytown, Amador, California DEATH SP: 2 Feb 1906 Jackson, Amador, California CHILDREN: Clara P., 1859 Amy, 1860 John Wesley, 1864 Nellie, 1866 Charles Andrew, 1869 Ellen Plunkett was born in 1839/40 near Brockville, Leeds, Ontario, Canada. Her parents were born in Ireland. They were converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1840 in Ontario, Canada. She had five brothers and one sister. Ellen was a toddler when her family moved to Nauvoo, Illinois to join the main body of the Church. She was about six years old when the mobs drove them out of Nauvoo in February, 1846. Her family was with a group of Saints who were asked to stay behind in Iowa to raise crops for the immigrants coming through. They were among the very last wagons to leave to come west in 1852. Ellen was twelve years old when they left Kanesville, Iowa in June, 1852, with Henry B. H. Jolley Wagon Company. They arrived in the Salt Lake Valley, September 15, 1852, and went directly to American Fork to join their Adams friends . In 1856, Ellen left American Fork with her family and moved to Amador County, California in the gold fields. She was sixteen years old. Her sister Mary Melinda stayed in Utah. Ellen married Andrew Patton Wood on November 3, 1857 in Drytown, Amador County, California. Ellen ran" boarding house and was a good cook. She and her husband ranched. She supported him in his political activities anel offices. They had five children and raised three of them. In 1861, their house was completely destroyed by fin.: and they had to start over. Ellen passed away on March 2, 1886, when about forty-seven years old, in Plymouth, Amador, California. The newspaper said: "Mrs. A. P. Wood - The deceased was one of the Pioneer Ladies of the county and state and had a kind genial heart - was much esteemed by all who knew her. She leaves a husband and three children: two sons and a daughter to mourn her loss." She was buried next to her father Robert Plunkett in Plymouth, Amador, California. ,_fi _ _ _ _ _ _ ELLEN SMITH WOOD BIRTHDATE: 18 Feb. 1822 StaIybridge, Cheshire, England DEATH: 18 Feb 1899 Grafton, Washington Co., Utah PARENTS: John Smith Ellen Garner PIONEER: 1853 Cyrus H. Wheelock Wagon Train SPOUSE: John Wood MARRIED: 6 Jan 1850 Stockport, Chester, England DEATH SP: 18 Feb. 1899 Grafton, Washington, Utah CHILDREN: Sarah Ann, 8 May 1850 Eliza, 20 Jan 1852 (died as an infant) Cyrus Nephi, 17 Jun 1853 (died as an infant) Ellen, 21 Dec 1854 Charles, 23 Apr 1857 (twin - died as an infant) Mary, 23 Apr 1857 (twin - died as an infant) John, 27 Sep 1858 Jane, 27 Sep 1858 (died as an infant) George Henry, 1 Dec 1860 Emily Wood, 21 Dec 1862 Ellen was born in Stalybridge, Cheshire, England. She married John Wood and they made their home in Chesterfield, England, where he was a coal miner. On May 5, 1851, they were baptized members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In February, 1853, they left England with their little daughter to join the Saints in America. Ellen was expecting her third child when the company left for the trek across the Plains. She and her daughter were able to ride but her husband walked. He became terribly ill with Cholera and would have to stop frequently to rest. She feared that he would never catch up with the company, but he did. Sometimes it would be late at night before he reached them. Food for the family was very |
