Mary Ann Sealey was the oldest child of James Sealey and Martha (Smith) Sealey. She was born in Hempstead, Long Island, New York. Her father died in 1789 when she was 18, and her mother was left with eight children, the youngest of whom was only three yeas old. Mary Ann married James Pettit, also a resident of Hempstead, on 28 February 1793. There were married when Mary Ann was 21 and James was 36. The fact that there was a 14 year difference in their ages was in part a result of the disruption and uncertainty caused by the American Revolutionary War and its aftermath. James was 18 when the Battle of Lexington and Concord were fought in 1775 at the beginning of the war. He was not an enrolled member of any military unit, but he was involved on an ad hoc basis in some skirmishes, supporting the British war effort. The Pettit men were traditionally older than average at the time of Marriage in 1793.
Mary Ann and James Pettit were the parents of ten children, all born in Hempstead. Mary Ann became a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the early 1840s. Five of their ten children also joined the Church about that time. Four of them moved to the Mississippi River Valley on the Illinois and Iowa border about 1842, where the Mormons were gathering at that time. Mary Ann remained in Hempstead with her husband until his death in 1846.
Within a few months of James Pettit's death on Long Island, Mary Ann Pettit joined her eldest son James Pettit in the Mississippi River Valley and traveled with him to Utah in the summer of 1848. She died in Salt Lake City about a year after their arrival in Utah on 22 July 1849 at the age of 77. Salt Lake City Cemetery was not officially organized and laid out until 1851, but the first burial at the City Cemetery site occurred in September 1847, and many other burials took place at this designated location before the formal incorporation of the cemetery in 1851. For information on Mary Ann Sealey and the Sealey Family of Hempstead, Long Island, see Robert R. King and Kay Atkinson King, "The Ancestry, Descendants, and Life of Ethan Pettit" (McLean, VA: American Society for Genealogy and Family History, 2016), pp. 86-93. For information on the marriage and children Mary Ann Sealey Pettit and James Pettit, see pp. 85-134.
Mary Ann Sealey was the oldest child of James Sealey and Martha (Smith) Sealey. She was born in Hempstead, Long Island, New York. Her father died in 1789 when she was 18, and her mother was left with eight children, the youngest of whom was only three yeas old. Mary Ann married James Pettit, also a resident of Hempstead, on 28 February 1793. There were married when Mary Ann was 21 and James was 36. The fact that there was a 14 year difference in their ages was in part a result of the disruption and uncertainty caused by the American Revolutionary War and its aftermath. James was 18 when the Battle of Lexington and Concord were fought in 1775 at the beginning of the war. He was not an enrolled member of any military unit, but he was involved on an ad hoc basis in some skirmishes, supporting the British war effort. The Pettit men were traditionally older than average at the time of Marriage in 1793.
Mary Ann and James Pettit were the parents of ten children, all born in Hempstead. Mary Ann became a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the early 1840s. Five of their ten children also joined the Church about that time. Four of them moved to the Mississippi River Valley on the Illinois and Iowa border about 1842, where the Mormons were gathering at that time. Mary Ann remained in Hempstead with her husband until his death in 1846.
Within a few months of James Pettit's death on Long Island, Mary Ann Pettit joined her eldest son James Pettit in the Mississippi River Valley and traveled with him to Utah in the summer of 1848. She died in Salt Lake City about a year after their arrival in Utah on 22 July 1849 at the age of 77. Salt Lake City Cemetery was not officially organized and laid out until 1851, but the first burial at the City Cemetery site occurred in September 1847, and many other burials took place at this designated location before the formal incorporation of the cemetery in 1851. For information on Mary Ann Sealey and the Sealey Family of Hempstead, Long Island, see Robert R. King and Kay Atkinson King, "The Ancestry, Descendants, and Life of Ethan Pettit" (McLean, VA: American Society for Genealogy and Family History, 2016), pp. 86-93. For information on the marriage and children Mary Ann Sealey Pettit and James Pettit, see pp. 85-134.
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