Margaret Allen Webb Smith

Margaret Allen, daughter of James Dickerson Allen and Sarah Ann Hardy, was born 31 March 1827 in Salem, Salem, New Jersey, the second of twelve children. At the age of 13, Margaret Allen was baptized in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on 15 April 1840.

She married Charles Young Webb (1819 - 1890) and emigrated to Utah in a wagon train with the Warren Foote Company of 1850. In 1851 she and Charles Young Webb were living in Iron County, Utah Territory; their real estate was valued at $700.50. They were sealed in the Salt Lake Temple on 14 May 1852, and had six children. They were divorced in 1855 and Margaret Allen was sealed to John Glover Smith (1808 - 1888) on 9 November 1856 in the President's Office, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Territory. They had three children.

Margaret lived in Pine Valley, Washington, Utah Territory when the census was taken on 4 June 1870. Ten years later, she was living with her daughter and son-in-law, Horatio Harris Merrill and Sarah Ann Smith, in Smithfield, Cache, Utah at the time of the census taken on 9 June 1880. She married Dennison Lot Harris on 1 November 1883 at St. George, Washington, Utah Territory. He died eighteen months later, but Margaret did not marry again. She died 15 April 1919 in Declo, Cassia, Idaho at the age of 92 years, and was buried in Declo Cemetery, Declo, Cassia County, Idaho, United States.

Marriages and Children

1. Charles Young Webb (1819 Malone, Franklin, New York - 1890)
   1. Willis Webb (29 September 1844 - 21 October 1921)
   2. Jannette Martha Webb (24 October 1846 - 7 December 1865)
   3. Lydia Priscilla Webb, d.s.p. (25 March 1847 - 1850)
   4. Charles Young Webb (26 July 1851 - 14 August 1939)
   5. James Dickerson Webb (19 May 1853 - 7 June 1927)
   6. Joseph Webb (1855 - 1873)
2. John Glover Smith (1808 - 1888) married 19 March 1857 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
   1. Sarah Ann Smith (4 Sepember 1858 - 28 October 1952)
   2. Robert Wilson Smith, d.s.p. (30 June 1861 - 19 Febuary 1873)
   3. Mary Eliza Smith (8 May 1865 - 18 May 1946)
3. Dennison Lot Harris (1824 - 1885) married 1 Nov 1883, St. George, Washington, Utah

Notes

• On the roster of the Mormon pioneer Warren Foote Company (1850), the Webb family is listed as "Weeb".

Sources

• Find A Grave Memorial #16632977
• Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910 (NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. Year: 1910; Census Place: Burley, Cassia, Idaho; Roll: T624_223; Page: 10B; Enumeration District: 0112; Image: 527; FHL Number: 1374236
• U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004; Source number: 295.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: GHS; Yates Publishing.
• Women of the Mormon Battalion