Person:Mary Morrow (68)

Mary is identified as the child of Joseph Morrow and Jane Wylie based on her self-reported birth records stating she was born in 1802 in Chester County and reference in her father's 1835 will, as "Polly Thomas." Missionary records of her son James confirm her maiden name as Morrow.^[4] Narratives regarding her life uniformly provide details consistent with this identification.^[5]

Mary married first James Wylie in 1821, a cousin on her mother's side. He died before they had any children. She married second James Sands Thomas in Perry County, Alabama. They moved to Mississippi in the mid 1830s before their last child was born in 1836. James Thomas died in 1838, followed by their youngest daughter in 1840. She married third, Washington Norwood Cook, in 1842 in Mississippi. Sometime before October 1843 when Mary's daughter Jane was baptized, the family became involved with the very new Mormon church. In April 1845, they moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, the center of the church at the time. They traveled to Iowa when Mormons were forced to leave Nauvoo, and then became part of the 2nd fifty of the 3rd hundred, migrating to Utah in 1847.

Washington and Mary's son Joseph went to California for several years during the gold rush, leaving Mary with James and Jane in Utah. Jane married in 1851. Mary and James, and for a time her mother-in-law Winifred, built a dugout home on the banks of the Spanish Fork River, but later moved into the fort built to protect settlers from Native American tribes. Washington returned to Utah about 1852 or 1853 and served a series of missions for the church, eventually dying in October 1858 while working among Indian tribes in Utah. Mary lived with her daughter Jane until she died in 1884.^[3]

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Find A Grave
   Mary Pamela Morrow Cook.

   full dates on stone

   Mary consistently gave her birthdate as Feb 1802 in records during her lifetime; her brother Joseph's tombstone says Sept. 1801. One must be wrong, and given the contemporary records, more likely Joseph.

2. ↑ Camp of Israel schedules and reports, 1845-1849 / Spring 1847 emigration camp / Third 100, second 50, returns, 1847 June, in Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints History Catalog
   [1].

   Born 3 Feb 1802 Chester, SC. Listed with her husband Washington and three Thomas children - Jane (16), James (12), and Madison (10).

3. ↑ Our Ancestors – Witnesses of Christ: The Morrow, Wylie, Thomas, Cook Family.

   Uploaded to FamilySearch record. Mormon family chronicle, based heavily on journals of the time.

4. ↑ Missionary Records of child James Wylie Thomas: "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Missionary Registers (Worldwide), 1860-1937"
   citing Volume: Missionary Register v. 2; Page: 39; Line: 1548; Entry: 23613721125545464217-eng; Digital film/folder number: 101543894; Image number: 00040FamilySearch
5. ↑ As an early Mormon pioneer, Mary has been the subject of multiple writeups describing her family and background, several of which have been uploaded to her FamilySearch record and one of which is written in the first person (but may have been created from other sources)