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Henrietta Keys

Female 1821 - 1901  (79 years)


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  • Name Henrietta Keys 
    Born 25 Dec 1821  Waverly, Pike, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 23 Feb 1901  Kaysville, Davis, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried 25 Feb 1901  Kaysville City Cemetery, Kaysville, Davis, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I2600  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Stephen Henry Hales,   b. 17 Oct 1820, Rainham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Oct 1881, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 61 years) 
    Married 23 Dec 1851  Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F1131  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Censuses:
      1880 US: Kaysville, Davis, Utah, NA T9-1336, FHL film 1255336, p. 315D:
      Henrietta Hales, marr., 58, OH PA VA, keeping house.
      Elmira L., dau., s, 22, UT Eng OH.
      George W., son, s, 19, UT Eng OH, stone cutter.

      1900 US: Kaysville, Davis, Utah, p. 123B:
      Henrieta Hales, Dec 1821, 78, widow, 1 total child not living, OH PA VA.
      Edna Wellman, g.dau., Mar 1885, 15, UT Michigan UT, keeping house.
      Alta Wellman, g.dau., Apr 1887, 13, UT Michigan UT.

      BIOGRAPHY:
      1. Parents: Samuel Keyes and Nancy Ann Delgam or Delgarn. Last name appears as Keys and Keyes. I use Keys because it appears in marriage record as cited below and also in endowment record.

      2. Per the book "Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude" by the daughters of Utah Pioneers [photo accompanies biography]: "Henrietta Keyes Whitney Hales., b. 25 Dec 1820 at Waverly, Pike, Ohio; parents are Samuel Keyes and Nancy Delgarn; pioneer of 17 Sep 1847 with the Abraham O. Smoot Wagon Train. Spouse #1: Alonzo W. Whitney, m. 1839, d. 12 Feb 1845 at Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois; Children:
      Samuel Carlos, 10 Nov 1840
      Don Carlos, 27 Jul 1842 (died at age 4)
      Spouse #2: Newell K. Whitney, m. 26 Jan 1846, d. 28 Oct 1850 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah; no children.
      Spouse #3: Stephen Hales, m. 23 Dec 1851; Children:
      Henrietta
      Zelnora Jane
      Elmyra Louisa
      George Washington
      Henrietta Keyes was born December 25, 1821 [1820?], in Waverly, Pike, Ohio, to Samuel Keyes and Nancy Delgarn Keyes. She married Alonzo Wells Whitney in 1839 at the age of 18. Alonzo was of the Methodist religion, and Henrietta, a Presbyterian, when they were married. Soon after theIr marriage an uncle of Alonzo's, who was a Mormon, converted them to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Their family happiness was short-lived, because Alonzo died in Nauvoo on Feb. 12, 1845. Henrietta received her endowments in the Nauvoo Temple, Jan 26, 1846, and was sealed to Alonzo for eternity. She also married to Newell K. Whitney for time only, on that same day. Her son Don Carlos passed away at Winter Quarters. Henrietta and her son, Samuel, came across the Plains in the A.O. Smoot Company, and arrived in the Valley on Sep. 19, 1847. Her husband, Bishop Whitney, came to Salt Lake the next year, where he died in Oct. 28, 1850. She married Stephen Hales, Dec. 23, 1851, in the Endowment House. Four children were born to them. Henrietta moved to Enterprise, Utah, for some time, then to Kaysville, Utah, where she lived the rest of her life. Henrietta's birthday was always celebrated with a delicious pigeon pie. She passed away Feb. 23, 1901, in Kaysville, Utah, at age 80 years."

      BIRTH:
      1. Date and place per website for Utah State Historical Society Cemeteries Database; 8 Jan 2002; gives year as 1822 whereas the DUP biography cited above gives 1820. The 1820 date makes sense considering her obituary says she is 80 years old at time of death. Live endowment record says 25 Dec 1821. I use the 1821 date.

      MARRIAGE:
      1. Married three times as detailed in the DUP biography cited above. Husbands:
      1. Alonzo W. Whitney: 1939 with no location noted. Online Ordinance Index FHL film M514481 which is an extracted marriage record of 30 Oct 1839 from Union County, Ohio for dates between 1820 to 1854; names used were Alonzo W. Whitney and Henrietta Keys.
      2. Newell K. Whitney, brother of Alonzo; time only per DUP.
      3. Stephen Hales.

      DEATH:
      1. Date per website for Utah State Historical Society Cemeteries Database online: Henrietta Hales, b. 25 Dec 1822 at Waverly, Ohio, d. 23 Feb 1901 due to age, bur. 25 Feb 1901 at Kaysville Cemetery 2-49-B-10.

      2. Date and place per obituary.

      BURIAL:
      1. Date and place per website for Utah State Historical Society Cemeteries Database; 8 Jan 2002. Notes: 2-49-B-10.

      OBITUARY:
      1. Improvement Era, LDS Church, April 1901, p.478: "Local - [Feb.] 23 - Mrs. Henrietta Keys Hales, a pioneer who came to Utah in 1847, dies at Kaysville, Utah, aged 80 years."

      SOURCES_MISC:
      1. 18 Dec 2002 website .

      2. Ancestral File 4.19.