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Appendix 3
Catherine H. Ellis and David F. Boone, "Appendix 3: Women Whose Husbands Served Missions," in Pioneer Women of Arizona, ed. Roberta Flake Clayton, Catherine H. Ellis, and David F. Boone (Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2017), 873-876.
Sometimes a husband’s mission was not mentioned in the wife’s biographical sketch, meaning the author possibly did not think it applied to her life. When it was known that a husband served a mission, this information was included here; there may be other husbands who also served missions. An asterisk indicates a mission served before coming to Arizona.
| Name | Date married | Date of mission | Place of mission | Duration | Other information |
| Barbara Phelps Allen | 1895 | 1898 | Southern States | 2 years | milked 8–10 cows and sewed |
| Barbara Phelps Allen | 1895 | 1907 | Eastern States | c. 1 year | |
| Julia Smith Ballard | 1892 | 1898 | West Virginia | eight children (five from husband’s first marriage); sewed for others | |
| May Hatch Decker | 1897 | 1910 | California | mission not mentioned in sketch | |
| Wilmirth Greer DeWitt | 1890 | 1899 | 2 years | son died; sold only calf to send money to husband; community members helped | |
| Annie McRae Goodman | 1893 | 1901 | Colorado | not long | husband returned early because sick |
| Loretta Ellsworth Hansen | 1885 | 1902 | Denmark | 3 years | took in sewing and washing, boarded teacher; debt free when returned home |
| *Barbara Mills Haws | 1853 | States | |||
| Francelle Coleman Heywood | 1876 | 1888 | New Zealand | 3 years | taught school in Apache County |
| Annella Hunt Kartchner | 1883 | 1900 | Texas | 2 years | mission not mentioned in sketch (sketch originally written for FWP) |
| Olena Olsen Kempe | 1865 | 1898 | Norway | 18 months | took in borders to support family |
| Anna Johnson Kempe | 1866 | 1898 | Norway | 18 months | mission not mentioned in sketch |
| *Caroline Williams Kimball | 1857 | 1865 | England | 3 years | three boys; only heard from husband about every six months |
| *Olive Woolley Kimball | 1882 | 1884 | Indian Territory | nearly 3 years | after husband returned, he was called as president of the mission so was often away from home |
| Gustella Wilkins Larson | 1891 | 1898 | Southern States | 2 years | four children; rented farm out; worked for others, particularly nursing |
| Malinda Passey Lisonbee | 1886 | c. 1895 | Colorado | kept bees and extracted honey; bought a baby buggy, horse buggy, sewing machine, and saved $300; baby born while husband gone | |
| *Cyrena Dustin Merrill | 1840 | 1853 | England | 3 years | traded farm for stock (which died); took in washing |
| Margaret Brundage Millett | 1887 | c. 1894 | Alabama | 27 months | four children; managed farm while husband was away |
| Mary Bingham Phelps | 1873 | 1890 | Southern States | ||
| “May” Johnson Pomeroy | 1886 | 1902 | Mexico | 3 years | after mission, husband was made mission president and returned for family, but served less than a year because one child was sick |
| Temperance Allen Randall | 1891 | 1899 | Texas | 3 years | lived at Tuba City; one child born and one child died while husband gone; brother-in-law helped |
| Mary Willie Richards | 1867 | 1891 | England | 2+ years | nine children; 15-year-old daughter died |
| Clara Gleason Rogers | 1879 | Europe | 3 years | ||
| Clara Gleason Rogers | 1879 | California | short term | later in life | |
| *Louisa Minnerly Shumway | 1845 | 1857 | states | Johnston’s Army came to Utah while husband was gone | |
| Catherine Delphina Fish Smith | 1886 | 1900 | England/ | 2 years | mission not mentioned in sketch |
| Ellen Larson Smith | 1886 | 1902 | Western States | left his two wives and eleven children “in the Lord’s care;” Ellen kept bees, a notion store, and boarders, also did photography and janitorial work | |
| *Emma West Smith | 1852 | 1860 | Denmark | particularly difficult caring for motherless children in addition to her own; sister Margaret and two other women died, leaving children in Emma’s care | |
| *Emma West Smith | 1852 | 1868 | Denmark | husband brought back another wife, Augusta Outzen, from Denmark | |
| *Janet Johnson Smith | 1866 | 1868 | Denmark | mission not mentioned in sketch | |
| Sarah Ellen Marsden Smith | 1879 | 1900 | England/ | 2 years | cooked and kept house for two families while other wife taught school |
| Eliza Parkinson Tanner | 1877 | 1888 | England | 11 months | husband returned home because of ill health |
| Emma Stapley Tanner | 1886 | 1888 | England | 11 months | mission not mentioned in sketch |
| Mary Flake Turley | 1882 | 1896 | Southern States | 10 months | husband returned sick with malaria; Mary wove carpets to earn money and had foundations laid and bricks paid for, adding two rooms to house |
| *Luella Stewart Udall | 1875 | 1875 | England | 2 years | husband left six weeks after their marriage; Ella worked in telegraph office, taught school |
| *Mary Jane Robinson West | 1865 | 1865 | Hawaii | about 6 months | husband felt like didn’t complete mission; son born shortly after husband returned |
| *Mary Jane Robinson West | 1865 | 1871 | Hawaii | 3 years | while raising four sons, Mary taught school so husband could “finish” his mission |
| Fannie Roundy Willis | 1878 | 1898 | Alabama | 2 years | place and date from PMA |
| Annie Chandler Woods | 1854 | 1885 | Great Britain | 2 years | died before husband returned |
Totals: 9 before coming to Arizona; 26 while living in Arizona
