Facts and events
Marriage | December 18, 1853 |
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LDS spouse sealing | December 18, 1853 LDS temple: Endowment House |
Note | "The Life and History of Phineas W. Cook," including his journal, published by the Phineas W. Cook Family Organization, #5 N 700E, Brigham City, UT, p. 79. "Dec 1853 and 18th I took two wives the name of the oldest was Polly Amanda Savage the daughter of the first Mormon Elder I ever heard preech she was 17 years old the 23 of August before. The name of the other was Catharine McCleve an Irish girl she was 17 the 17th of Sept." SEALING FHL Special Collections film 183,393 #1409, 18 December 1853. Sealing, in this order: Phineas Wolcott Cook born August 28, 1819, Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut; Amanda Savage born York District, Upper Canada 23 August 1836; Catherine McCleve born Belfast Ireland 14 January 1837. Sealed by E. T. Benson. SECOND SEALING: "Friday the 28th day of March by their own free will and choice my three wives went with me to the endowment house and ware each sealed over the alter." ("The Life and History of Phineas W. Cook," including his journal, published by the Phineas W. Cook Family Organization, #5 N 700E, Brigham City, UT, p. 101.) Although he stated this in his journal, his first wife Ann Eliza was not sealed that day because she had already been sealed to him. Endowment House, March 28, 1856, Vol. B1, FHL 183,394 (end of film). All birth information was correct, and the following were listed: Phineas Wolcott Cook; Ann Eliza Howland; Amanda Polly Savage; Catherine McCleve. Sealed by Heber C. Kimball. Witnesses: J. M. Grant, W.W. Phelps, F. Kessler. |