- Gender
- Female
- Alternate Names
- Fielding, Mercy Rachel
Thompson, Mercy Rachel Fielding
Biography
15 June 1807–15 Sept. 1893. Born in Honeydon, Bedfordshire, England. Daughter of John Fielding and Rachel Ibbotson. Immigrated to Upper Canada, 1832. Baptized into LDS church by Parley P. Pratt, 21 May 1836, near Toronto. Moved to Kirtland, Geauga Co., Ohio, May 1837. Married Robert Blashell Thompson, 4 June 1837, in Kirtland. Returned to Canada with husband, when he was appointed to serve a mission there. Moved to Far West, Caldwell Co., Missouri, May 1838; to Quincy, Adams Co., Illinois, Feb. 1839; and to Commerce (later Nauvoo), Hancock Co., Illinois, Apr. 1839. Husband died, 24 Aug. 1841. Joined Female Relief Society of Nauvoo, 24 Mar. 1842. “Married or sealed” to Hyrum Smith “for time,” 11 Aug. 1843, in Nauvoo. Moved to Winter Quarters, unorganized U.S. territory (later in Omaha, Douglas Co., Nebraska), Sept. 1846. Migrated to Salt Lake City, 24 Sept. 1847. Died in Salt Lake City.
Links
- History, 1838–1856, volume C-1 [2 November 1838–31 July 1842]
- Deed from Robert B. and Mercy Fielding Thompson, 23 March 1841
- Deed from Robert B. and Mercy Fielding Thompson, 24 July 1841
- Deed to Mercy Fielding Thompson, 28 April 1842
- History, 1838–1856, volume C-1 Addenda
- History, 1838–1856, volume E-1 [1 July 1843–30 April 1844]
- Journal, December 1842–June 1844; Book 2, 10 March 1843–14 July 1843
- Journal, December 1842–June 1844; Book 3, 15 July 1843–29 February 1844
- Letter from Don Carlos Smith and William Smith, 6 March 1839
- Letter from Don Carlos and Agnes Coolbrith Smith, 11 April 1839
- Letterbook 2
- Lucy Mack Smith, History, 1844–1845
- Lucy Mack Smith, History, 1845
- Minutes and Discourses, 6–8 April 1843
- Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book