Elizabeth POOLE b. 3 Sep 1838 Manchester, Lancaster, England d. 18 Apr 1918 Thatcher, Graham, Arizona, United States

1838 - 1918 (79 years)

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Name	Elizabeth POOLE
Born	3 Sep 1838	Manchester, Lancaster, England
Gender	Female
Emigration	12 Oct 1840	Liverpool, England To New York, New York and then Nauvoo, Illinois, United States
Census	1850	Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States
Residence	Abt 1850	Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States
Residence	1850	Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States
Initiatory (LDS)	18 Mar 1856	EHOUS
Residence	1860	Great Salt Lake City Ward 15, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
Census	5 Jul 1860	15th Ward Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
Residence	1870	St George, Washington, Utah Territory, United States
Residence	1880	St. George, Washington, Utah Territory, United States
Residence	1900	Precincts 1, 5, 6, 7, 10, 12, and 13, Graham, Arizona Territory, USA
Residence	1910	Thatcher, Graham, Arizona, United States
_FSFTID	K2H4-VNZ
_UID	5AD274C12745174CBC8FE2E257D4C44A7899
Died	18 Apr 1918	Thatcher, Graham, Arizona, United States
Buried	10 May 1918	Thatcher Cem., Thatcher, Graham, Az
Person ID	I50	pember-crandall
Last Modified	28 Jan 2017

Father	Daniel POOLE, b. 31 Dec 1800, Middlewich, Cheshire, England , d. 24 Mar 1876, Loftwich, Cheshire, England (Age 75 years)
Mother	Elizabeth "Betsy" MILLER, b. 19 Nov 1805, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland , d. 1843, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois (Age 37 years)
Married	15 Sep 1824/15 Sep 1825	Manchester, Lancashire, England
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Notes	MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married Manchester Cathe, Manchester, Lancs. MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married 15 Sep 1824/1825
Family ID	F79	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family John Monroe MOODY, b. 16 Feb 1822, Ashville, St. Clair, Alabama, United States , d. 27 Jan 1884, Thatcher, Graham, Arizona Territory, United States (Age 61 years)

Married 23 Jan 1856 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT

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Children

	1. John Monroe Pool MOODY, b. 8 Oct 1856, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah , d. 23 Mar 1888, Thatcher, Graham, Arizona (Age 31 years)
	2. Francis Winfred MOODY, b. 26 Aug 1858, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT , d. 18 Aug 1919, Thatcher, Graham, AZ (Age 60 years)
	3. Margaret MOODY, b. 1859, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah , d. DECEASED
	4. Urilda Pool MOODY, b. 28 Mar 1860, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States , d. 29 Nov 1915, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States (Age 55 years)
	5. Edward MOODY, b. 20 Mar 1862, Pine Valley, Washington, Utah, United States , d. 8 Sep 1878, Pine Valley, Washington, Utah (Age 16 years)
	6. William Alfonzo MOODY, b. 8 Mar 1864, St. George, Washington, Utah Territory, United States , d. 9 Dec 1936, Jerome, Yavapai, Arizona, United States (Age 72 years)
	7. Elizabeth Dorinda MOODY, b. 19 Sep 1866, St. George, Washington, Utah, United States , d. 28 Nov 1943, Safford, Graham, Arizona, United States (Age 77 years)
	8. Thomas Epps MOODY, b. 23 May 1869, St. George, Washington, Utah, United States , d. 5 Jan 1945, Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, USA (Age 75 years)
	9. Susan Ann MOODY, b. 5 Oct 1871, St. George, Washington, Utah, United States , d. 29 Dec 1927, Thatcher, Graham, Arizona (Age 56 years)
	10. Emma Rosezilla MOODY, b. 16 Mar 1874, St. George, Washington, Utah Territory, United States , d. 30 Mar 1960, Burbank, Los Angeles, California, United States (Age 86 years)
	11. Charles Daniel MOODY, b. 29 Mar 1877, St. George, Washington, Utah, United States , d. 23 Jan 1878 (Age 0 years)
	12. Henry Owen MOODY, b. 10 Feb 1879, St. George, Washington, Utah, United States , d. 29 Aug 1902 (Age 23 years)

Last Modified 9 Nov 2017 17:05:48

Family ID F36 Group Sheet | Family Chart

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Pioneer Immigrants to Utah Territory.
Page: 001740
Name: Elizabeth Pool Moody
Gender: female
Birth Date: 03 Sep 1838
Birth Place: Manchester, Lancaster, England
Parent1: Daniel Pool
Parent2: Elizabeth (Betsy) Miller
Spouse: John Monroe Moody
Marriage Date: 23 Jan 1856 (age 18)
Marriage Place: SLC, UT
Religion: LDS
Death Date: 18 Apr 1918
Death Place: Thatcher, Graham, Ariz
Sources: Pioneer Quiltmaker by Carolyn O'Bagy Davis (copy in my pos) Fami ly group sheet
Sub Name: Vonna F. Polad
Sub Date: 28 Oct 1991

The John Wyatt Moody Family
Past and Present
Published by Dr. Thomas Moody Family Organization Inc.
President, E. Grant Moody
1424 South College Avenue
Tempe, Arizona 85281
Copyright 1985
US & CAN 929.273 M771j

Page 541
Daughter of Daniel and Betsy Miller Pool, Elizabeth
was born in Manchester. England, September 6, 1838 (Note:
a Certified copy of an Entry of Birth CF444139 from St.
George Manchester, Lancaster Co. England gives the
name POOLE). Her mother joined The Church of Jesus
Christ of latter-day Saints in 1838. Her father would not
join the church, so Betsy Pool took her three children to
Nauvoo, Illinois with the first company of English Saints,
arriving in 1840. Betsy married John Blazard and died
soon afterward, in Nauvoo, in 1843.
Betsy's children lived with relatives in St. Louis and
were there when Joseph and Hyrum Smith were killed in
1844. In the confusion of leaving Nauvoo and starting west.
Elizabeth was shunted from place to place. stopping for a
year at the Punca River near the Punca Indians, traveling
by wagon to Winter Quarters. then back to Savannah. The
now ten-year-old Elizabeth had somehow gained and held
a firm conviction of the gospel despite her homelessness
and orphaned condition. She was offered a home and an
education if she would stay with one family, but she refused
and finally got to cross the plains in the fall of 1852.
In the Salt lake Valley she worked out for her living, until as
her journal states, "January 23, 1856 I was married to John M.
Moody by consent of his first wife Margaret. Like
Sarah of old, she wished her husband to take another wife.
We lived in the same house, cooked and ate at the same
table, but set up in separate rooms." To the end of her life
Elizabeth strongly attested to the divinity of this principle
of "spiritual" wives. Her first child John Monroe Jr. was born
while his father was on a mission in Texas.
Elizabeth was a witness to the plague of crickels in 1857.
In the spring of the next year, the families moved to the
south while Johnston's Army marched through Salt Lake
City. John was in Echo harrassing the army when he sent
word to his wives to get someone to plant ten acres of
grain on Cottonwood Creek. With Margaret's sons to help,
the two women plowed the land with oxen and planted the
grain themselves.
John married a third wife and these two women were
left together in Pine Valley while John made a home in St.
George with Margaret. The two women stayed there a year
and a half and both gave birth to children. Then they
moved into St. George where Elizabeth had her own home
for the first time.
First she was in a partly underground dugout. She bore
her fifth child there. When a flood drove her out, she lived
in a rented room, then moved into a two-room rented
house. Here she had her sixth child. Her next three children
were born in a little larger house. still with two rooms.
Her son William suffered with "gravel" or kidney stones
Elizabeth took him and her two youngest children to
Lake City for treatment, making the journey with five
dollars, her own courage, and the strength of her prayers.
This resourceful woman managed to provide food, clothing,
and medical treatment for William, though she had
barefoot children and hardly any money when she arrived
in the City. Moreover, when William had been treated, she
managed to get them all home virtually without money
feeding the team with two sacks of corn which were refilled
in Fillmore and drawing from the Tithing Office.
John Monroe built a two-story house near the
Tabernacle where Margaret Moody, her children grown. could
live comfortably. Margaret's larger house was then used by
Elizabeth and her growing family, her tenth child, Charles
Daniel, being born March 29, 1877. In August, Sarah
Damron Moody died, and Elizabeth took her two living
children in. The birth of Henry Owen February 10, 1879
gave her eleven children, plus Sarah's two children to care
for. Only Urilda was married. so far.
John Monroe's decision to marry a fourth wife in 1878,
probably the catalyst for Margaret's divorcing him, also
severely tried Elizabeth. She said, "It seemed as though I
had all I could stand. but Patriarch William McBride laid
his hands on my head and blessed me, which gave me
strength to overcome my trials to the extent that I could
content myself and put my trust in the Lord, The Lord had
promised that my last days should be my best days."
But those "best days" were yet to come. When Margaret
sued for divorce, she received Elizabeth's house forcing
Elizabeth to move into a rented house until the family
moved to Arizona in February of 1881.
They settled Thatcher, and not only was Elizabeth's
husband the first bishop of the ward, but she was the first
Relief Society President.
She rejoiced when her first son John Monroe moved
back to be with them in 1883 after having lost his wife and
baby in St. George. But she lost her husband January 27
1884 and her eldest son March 23, 1888, a double blow.
Elizabeth continued to live in Thatcher surrounded by
her children, until her death April 18, 1918. Her grandson
Francis Winfred Moody, Jr. said of her, "She was the
grandest old lady I ever knew."

JOHN MONROE MOODY (7XXXIJMM)
b. 16 Feb 1822 St Clair Co. AL
d. 27 Jan 1844 Thatcher AZ
p. John Wyatt Moody & Mary "Polly" Baldwin
Spouse ( I ): Margaret Anglin (see Part Six Chapter I )
Spouse (2): Elizabeth Pool (Poole) sld. 23 Jan 1856
b. 3 Sep 1838 Manchester England
d. 18 Apr 1918 Thatcher AZ
p. Daniel Pool & Elizabeth Miller
m. 23 Jan 1856 Salt lake City UT
Children:
*1. John Monroe Moody Jr b. 28 Oct 1856
Salt lake City UT m. Eunice Renbow Carter
*2. Francis Winfred Moody b. 26 Aug 1858
Salt lake City UT m. Malinda Gimlin lewis
*3. Urilda Moody b. 28 Mar 1860 Salt Lake City UT
m. William Reed Horizon Paxman
4. Edward Pool Moody b. 3 Mar 1862 Pine Valley UT
d. about 1878
*5. William Alfonzo Moody b. 8 Mar 1864 St George UT
m. (I) Salina Vilate Cluff (2) Maybelle Cluff
*6. Elizabeth Dorinda Moody b. 19 Sep 1866
St George UT m. Joseph Edwin Cluff Sr
*7. Thomas Epps Moody b. 23 May 1869 St George UT
m. Frances Olive Felshaw
*8. Susan Ann Moody b. 5 Oct 1871 St George UT
m. Hyrum Claridge
*9. Emma Rosezilla Moody b. 16 Mar 1874 St George UT
m. William K. Cluff
10. Charles Daniel Moody b. 29 Mar 1877 St George UT
d. 23 Jan 1878
*11. Henry Owen Moody b. 10 Feb 1879 St George UT
m. Laura Effie Huntley
Spouse (3): Sarah Matilda Damron (see Part Six Chapter 3)
Spouse (4): Margaret Lenora Pace (see Part Six Chapter 4)

This next story that was found in Ancestry.com is from a n
old unsourced newspaper clipping. Unfortunately page 73 i s
missing. There is some history of Elizabeth here not covere d
in the Moody book.

Orphaned at young
age, Elizabeth Moody
crosses plains
Elizabeth Poole was born on 6.
September I838 in Manchester. a
major industrial city in southeastern
Lancashire. England. She was the
youngest child of Daniel Poole (a
cord wainer by trade) and Elizabeth
(known as Betsy) Miller. Within
three months of Elizabeth‘s birth, her
parents joined the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Desiring to gather with the Saints
in Zion, Betsy Poole emigrated to
America in the fall of I840 with her
three living children -- Edward.
Sarah Ann and Elizabeth. Betsy's
husband had previously abandoned
both the Church and his family.

After a rigorous journey of about
6—rnonths, the family arrived in
Nauvoo. Betsy remarried and in 1843
died leaving Elizabeth a 5 year old
orphan. The three children were
cared for by relatives and friends
until they were able to care for them-
selves. After being passed from one
family to another in such places as
Ponca, Missouri. St. Louis. and
Winter Quarters. Elizabeth ultimately
crossed the plains in 1852.

On the way across the plains, those
going were instructed not to linger
foo far behind the wagons. On one
occasion Elizabeth lingered behind to
the extent that the wagons were out of
sight. She suddenly found her way cut
off by two lndians. Each lndian want-
ed to put her on his horse. They began
quarreling and then ?ghting. While
they were engaged in a struggle over
her. she ran around them and headed
in the direction of the wagons. When
they realized what she had done. she
was too near the wagons for them to
get her.

Elizabeth wrote: “After arriving in
the Salt Lake Valley. l worked out for
my living until the winter of 1856
when on January 24, l was married to
John Monroe Moody by consent of
his ?rst wife, Margaret. Like Sarah of
old. she wished her husband to take
another wife. Therefore l became a
spiritual wife. We lived in the same
house. cooked and ate at the same
table, but slept in separate rooms.

“ . . . My husband went on a mis-
sion to Texas, but was called home
because of Johnston’s army coming
upon the Saints, and was sent to Echo
to prohibit the army from coming in.
While there, he wrote home for us to
get someone to put in ten acres of
grain on Cottonwood Creek. We
thought we could put this in our-
selves. so we had Sister Moody’s
three sons by a previous marriage
(See MOODY. Page 73)