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Elizabeth Stillman was born near Kirtland, Ohio in 1840 the second daughter and fourth child of Dexter Alpheus and Barbara (Redfield) Stillman early converts of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS).
Shortly after Elizabeth's birth the family moved to Nauvoo, Illinois where father Dexter worked on the interior of the Nauvoo Temple. Anti-Mormon mob violence resulting in the death of Joseph Smith caused most Mormons to leave Illinois in 1846. The Stillman's were part of this migration that made their way across Iowa. After a time at Winter Quarters (the Mormons ill-fated camp in Indian Territory on the west side of the Missouri River) the family moved back into Iowa, separated from the LDS Church and joined the followers of Alpheus Cutler (Cutlerites).
About 1857 Elizabeth, eighteen, married Bainbridge Sperry,about thirty (brother Clark had married Bainbridge's sister Amelia). Daughter Annie Laurie was born in 1860. By the time daughter Alice was born in 1863 Bainbridge and Elizabeth and Annie Laurie were living in California. Less than a year later Bainbridge was killed in a sawmill accident and Elizabeth and her daughters moved back to Manti, Iowa where members of her family and church were living.
Census records indicate that Annie Laurie died in 1866 as result of a fall in Iowa. Elizabeth (Stillman) Sperry died in late December 1867 or early 1868 at age twenty-nine in Clitherall, Minnesota. Elizabeth is buried at Mount Pleasant cemetery. Four year old daughter Alice was raised by Bainbridge's younger brother Loring and wife Mary. Loring Sperry and his family were part of the group that broke from the Clitherall Cutlerites and moved to Becker County in 1869.
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Elizabeth Stillman was born near Kirtland, Ohio in 1840 the second daughter and fourth child of Dexter Alpheus and Barbara (Redfield) Stillman early converts of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS).
Shortly after Elizabeth's birth the family moved to Nauvoo, Illinois where father Dexter worked on the interior of the Nauvoo Temple. Anti-Mormon mob violence resulting in the death of Joseph Smith caused most Mormons to leave Illinois in 1846. The Stillman's were part of this migration that made their way across Iowa. After a time at Winter Quarters (the Mormons ill-fated camp in Indian Territory on the west side of the Missouri River) the family moved back into Iowa, separated from the LDS Church and joined the followers of Alpheus Cutler (Cutlerites).
About 1857 Elizabeth, eighteen, married Bainbridge Sperry,about thirty (brother Clark had married Bainbridge's sister Amelia). Daughter Annie Laurie was born in 1860. By the time daughter Alice was born in 1863 Bainbridge and Elizabeth and Annie Laurie were living in California. Less than a year later Bainbridge was killed in a sawmill accident and Elizabeth and her daughters moved back to Manti, Iowa where members of her family and church were living.
Census records indicate that Annie Laurie died in 1866 as result of a fall in Iowa. Elizabeth (Stillman) Sperry died in late December 1867 or early 1868 at age twenty-nine in Clitherall, Minnesota. Elizabeth is buried at Mount Pleasant cemetery. Four year old daughter Alice was raised by Bainbridge's younger brother Loring and wife Mary. Loring Sperry and his family were part of the group that broke from the Clitherall Cutlerites and moved to Becker County in 1869.
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Elizabeth Stillman was born near Kirtland, Ohio in 1840 the second daughter and fourth child of Dexter Alpheus and Barbara (Redfield) Stillman early converts of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS).
Shortly after Elizabeth's birth the family moved to Nauvoo, Illinois where father Dexter worked on the interior of the Nauvoo Temple. Anti-Mormon mob violence resulting in the death of Joseph Smith caused most Mormons to leave Illinois in 1846. The Stillman's were part of this migration that made their way across Iowa. After a time at Winter Quarters (the Mormons ill-fated camp in Indian Territory on the west side of the Missouri River) the family moved back into Iowa, separated from the LDS Church and joined the followers of Alpheus Cutler (Cutlerites).
About 1857 Elizabeth, eighteen, married Bainbridge Sperry,about thirty (brother Clark had married Bainbridge's sister Amelia). Daughter Annie Laurie was born in 1860. By the time daughter Alice was born in 1863 Bainbridge and Elizabeth and Annie Laurie were living in California. Less than a year later Bainbridge was killed in a sawmill accident and Elizabeth and her daughters moved back to Manti, Iowa where members of her family and church were living.
Census records indicate that Annie Laurie died in 1866 as result of a fall in Iowa. Elizabeth (Stillman) Sperry died in late December 1867 or early 1868 at age twenty-nine in Clitherall, Minnesota. Elizabeth is buried at Mount Pleasant cemetery. Four year old daughter Alice was raised by Bainbridge's younger brother Loring and wife Mary. Loring Sperry and his family were part of the group that broke from the Clitherall Cutlerites and moved to Becker County in 1869.
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Elizabeth Stillman was born near Kirtland, Ohio in 1840 the second daughter and fourth child of Dexter Alpheus and Barbara (Redfield) Stillman early converts of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS).
Shortly after Elizabeth's birth the family moved to Nauvoo, Illinois where father Dexter worked on the interior of the Nauvoo Temple. Anti-Mormon mob violence resulting in the death of Joseph Smith caused most Mormons to leave Illinois in 1846. The Stillman's were part of this migration that made their way across Iowa. After a time at Winter Quarters (the Mormons ill-fated camp in Indian Territory on the west side of the Missouri River) the family moved back into Iowa, separated from the LDS Church and joined the followers of Alpheus Cutler (Cutlerites).
About 1857 Elizabeth, eighteen, married Bainbridge Sperry,about thirty (brother Clark had married Bainbridge's sister Amelia). Daughter Annie Laurie was born in 1860. By the time daughter Alice was born in 1863 Bainbridge and Elizabeth and Annie Laurie were living in California. Less than a year later Bainbridge was killed in a sawmill accident and Elizabeth and her daughters moved back to Manti, Iowa where members of her family and church were living.
Census records indicate that Annie Laurie died in 1866 as result of a fall in Iowa. Elizabeth (Stillman) Sperry died in late December 1867 or early 1868 at age twenty-nine in Clitherall, Minnesota. Elizabeth is buried at Mount Pleasant cemetery. Four year old daughter Alice was raised by Bainbridge's younger brother Loring and wife Mary. Loring Sperry and his family were part of the group that broke from the Clitherall Cutlerites and moved to Becker County in 1869.
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Inscription
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ELISABETH
. SPERRY
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Gravesite Details
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