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Woolley, Mary Stretten Blood, wife of Henry Woolley, was born July 25, 1811, at Yoxall, Staffordshire, England, the daughter of Thomas Stretten and Elizabeth Stretten. In 1836 she was married to William Blood and became a convert to "Mormonism." Together with her husband she was baptized in 1842 and emigrated to America in 1844, locating at Nauvoo, Ill., where she suffered the loss of her husband three weeks after their arrival. In 1845 (May 12th) she was married to Henry Woolley, who proved a good husband and a kind father to her children. The family emigrated to Utah in 1849 and settled on Holmes' creek (now in Kaysville), Davis county, in 1850, where she reared her family in the fear of the Lord and was a zealous and energetic Latter-day Saint, gaining the love and respect of all her associates in life. She died March 3, 1891, at Kaysville. LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, Andrew Jenson, Vol. 3, p.285
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