Jane Williams Rhodes

LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, Andrew Jenson, Vol. 2, p.699-700
Rhodes, Jane Williams, wife of Wm. Henry Rhodes, was born in 1846, at New Market, North Wales, the daughter of John Williams and Mary Parry. She emigrated to Utah in 1856, crossing the Atlantic in the ship "Samuel Curling" and the plains in Capt. Edward Bunker's handcart company, which arrived in Salt Lake City Oct. 2, 1856. After a short sojourn in the Thirteenth Ward, Salt Lake City, she moved to Mill Creek and became the wife of [p.700] Wm. Henry Rhodes Jan. 13, 1866. She subsequently bore him seven children and died as a highly respected woman and Latter-day Saint Jan. 6, 1880.

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