Melissa is a beloved relative ..a 2nd great,grand aunt. My 2nd great grandmother, Edna, was one of her older sisters.
She was born to William King of Boston and Lucy Snow of Pomfret, Vermont. Her life is colored with joys and hardships. She loved Vermont and all her Snow relatives and must have enjoyed her childhood in that beautiful area.
Melissa spent time in Boston as well as Vermont and married Howes Crowell 8 Apr 1841 in Boston. They joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and moved to Nauvoo,Illinois. There her husband died and her two children as well. She was broken hearted. Her family in Boston wanted her to return to them but she decided to stay with the saints and eventually remarried to George B. Wallace, a friend and former branch president they had known in Boston. Her life crossing the country as a pioneer and then living in the west in such an early primitive time was very different from her New England upbringing. Yet she endured and had six more children and buried two of them in the Salt Lake City Cemetery as infants.
Burial: M.K.Wallace (Melissa King) buried Salt Lake City Cemetery; Plot R, Lot 9, Lot 3, Tier E, grave 2. Her 2nd husband, George B. Wallace is buried next to her. Three of their children are also buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery...George,Mary and Louisa......
Autobiography of Howes Crowell Wallace,(son by her 2nd marriage) wrote the following.
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"Still being interested in Temple work, I went to the Salt Lake Temple March 17, 1933, and obtained from President George F. Richards, the information that mother was sealed to George B. Wallace August 18, 1852, and to Howes Crowell Feb 9, 1867, Father acting as proxy, so that Melissa, John and I were all born under the covenant. Brother Richards could not tell whether the children would belong to George B. Wallace or to Howes Crowell, but said I need not worry that justice would rule."
She was born to William King of Boston and Lucy Snow of Pomfret, Vermont. Her life is colored with joys and hardships. She loved Vermont and all her Snow relatives and must have enjoyed her childhood in that beautiful area.
Melissa spent time in Boston as well as Vermont and married Howes Crowell 8 Apr 1841 in Boston. They joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and moved to Nauvoo,Illinois. There her husband died and her two children as well. She was broken hearted. Her family in Boston wanted her to return to them but she decided to stay with the saints and eventually remarried to George B. Wallace, a friend and former branch president they had known in Boston. Her life crossing the country as a pioneer and then living in the west in such an early primitive time was very different from her New England upbringing. Yet she endured and had six more children and buried two of them in the Salt Lake City Cemetery as infants.
Burial: M.K.Wallace (Melissa King) buried Salt Lake City Cemetery; Plot R, Lot 9, Lot 3, Tier E, grave 2. Her 2nd husband, George B. Wallace is buried next to her. Three of their children are also buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery...George,Mary and Louisa......
Autobiography of Howes Crowell Wallace,(son by her 2nd marriage) wrote the following.
P.82
"Still being interested in Temple work, I went to the Salt Lake Temple March 17, 1933, and obtained from President George F. Richards, the information that mother was sealed to George B. Wallace August 18, 1852, and to Howes Crowell Feb 9, 1867, Father acting as proxy, so that Melissa, John and I were all born under the covenant. Brother Richards could not tell whether the children would belong to George B. Wallace or to Howes Crowell, but said I need not worry that justice would rule."
Melissa is a beloved relative ..a 2nd great,grand aunt. My 2nd great grandmother, Edna, was one of her older sisters.
She was born to William King of Boston and Lucy Snow of Pomfret, Vermont. Her life is colored with joys and hardships. She loved Vermont and all her Snow relatives and must have enjoyed her childhood in that beautiful area.
Melissa spent time in Boston as well as Vermont and married Howes Crowell 8 Apr 1841 in Boston. They joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and moved to Nauvoo,Illinois. There her husband died and her two children as well. She was broken hearted. Her family in Boston wanted her to return to them but she decided to stay with the saints and eventually remarried to George B. Wallace, a friend and former branch president they had known in Boston. Her life crossing the country as a pioneer and then living in the west in such an early primitive time was very different from her New England upbringing. Yet she endured and had six more children and buried two of them in the Salt Lake City Cemetery as infants.
Burial: M.K.Wallace (Melissa King) buried Salt Lake City Cemetery; Plot R, Lot 9, Lot 3, Tier E, grave 2. Her 2nd husband, George B. Wallace is buried next to her. Three of their children are also buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery...George,Mary and Louisa......
Autobiography of Howes Crowell Wallace,(son by her 2nd marriage) wrote the following.
P.82
"Still being interested in Temple work, I went to the Salt Lake Temple March 17, 1933, and obtained from President George F. Richards, the information that mother was sealed to George B. Wallace August 18, 1852, and to Howes Crowell Feb 9, 1867, Father acting as proxy, so that Melissa, John and I were all born under the covenant. Brother Richards could not tell whether the children would belong to George B. Wallace or to Howes Crowell, but said I need not worry that justice would rule."
She was born to William King of Boston and Lucy Snow of Pomfret, Vermont. Her life is colored with joys and hardships. She loved Vermont and all her Snow relatives and must have enjoyed her childhood in that beautiful area.
Melissa spent time in Boston as well as Vermont and married Howes Crowell 8 Apr 1841 in Boston. They joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and moved to Nauvoo,Illinois. There her husband died and her two children as well. She was broken hearted. Her family in Boston wanted her to return to them but she decided to stay with the saints and eventually remarried to George B. Wallace, a friend and former branch president they had known in Boston. Her life crossing the country as a pioneer and then living in the west in such an early primitive time was very different from her New England upbringing. Yet she endured and had six more children and buried two of them in the Salt Lake City Cemetery as infants.
Burial: M.K.Wallace (Melissa King) buried Salt Lake City Cemetery; Plot R, Lot 9, Lot 3, Tier E, grave 2. Her 2nd husband, George B. Wallace is buried next to her. Three of their children are also buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery...George,Mary and Louisa......
Autobiography of Howes Crowell Wallace,(son by her 2nd marriage) wrote the following.
P.82
"Still being interested in Temple work, I went to the Salt Lake Temple March 17, 1933, and obtained from President George F. Richards, the information that mother was sealed to George B. Wallace August 18, 1852, and to Howes Crowell Feb 9, 1867, Father acting as proxy, so that Melissa, John and I were all born under the covenant. Brother Richards could not tell whether the children would belong to George B. Wallace or to Howes Crowell, but said I need not worry that justice would rule."
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