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Subject: [IADECATU] BRIGHAM YOUNG'S FAMILY.
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 23:02:50 EDT

You're right, Nancee, it isn't all true...

My maternal great great grandmother's sister, Miriam Angeline Works, was
Brigham Young's first wife, back in New York, before he ever started on his
religious trek west. She was the mother of Brigham's daughters Elizabeth and
Vilate, his two eldest children. This connects to Decatur County in that
Miriam's sister, Parthenia, born in N.Y. 1811, (died in Pleasanton in 1893) married
Lorenzo Dow Boothe, and they were the parents of my great grandmother,
Angeline Boothe Dennis, wife of Adam Dennis. Angeline and Adam were the parents of
George Wesley Dennis, my grandfather, who married Louisa Burrell, of the
Decatur Co. Burrells, and they were my mother's parents. Adam and Angeline Dennis
are listed on the Decatur County Website in the early LDS Church documents.
See following information from the familysearch.org (LDS) website regarding
Miriam Works. That site also shows that Brigham did indeed have a number of
wives.

Miriam Angeline WORKS (AFN: 27ZZ-W6)
Sex: F
Event(s):
Birth: 7 Jun 1806
Aurelius, Cayuga, New York
Death: 8 Sep 1832
Mendon, Monroe, New York
Burial: 8 Sep 1832
Tomlinson's Corner, Monroe, New York
Parents:
Father: <A HREF="http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/AF/individual_record.asp?recid=2641924&lds=0">Asa WORKS</A> (AFN: 37TG-4R)
Mother: <A HREF="http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/AF/individual_record.asp?recid=2641925&lds=0">Abigail MARKS</A> (AFN: 37TG-5X)
Marriage(s):
Spouse: <A HREF="http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/AF/individual_record.asp?recid=3224057&lds=0">Brigham YOUNG</A> (AFN: 3ZD8-KC
Marriage: 8 Oct 1824
Cayuga Co., New York

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