Individual Details

Clarinda Pauline Hills

(17 Feb 1849 - 3 May 1892)

PATTEN. At Aspen, Colorado, May 3d, 1892, Sister Clarinda P., wife of Bro. Wm. B. Patten, aged 43 years, 2 months, and 16 days.
Deceased was baptized into the church in 1862 at String Prairie, Iowa, where she lived for several years. Was married to W. B. Patten February 22d, 1869, and went to live at Montrose, Iowa, of which branch she was a member at the time of her death.
For the past five years with her husband and family she had been living on a homestead near Atwood, Kansas, which they had proved up on a short time before her death.
She had met with the Saints but twice in several years, those times being with the Denver branch, the last time being Sunday, April 24th, 1892.
She leaves a husband and six children, beside a father and three sisters to mourn their loss.
She died as she had lived, firm in the faith of the latter day work. Her request was that the funeral sermon be postponed until such time as the family could be all together and an elder of the church be had to preach the sermon.
Source: The Saints Herald - volume 39 (1892) p. 402 [The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints]
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Events

Birth17 Feb 1849Montrose, Lee County, Iowa
Census (family)-shared29 Aug 1850(Allan John R. Hills and Susan Johnson) Montrose, Lee County, Iowa
Census (family)-shared5 Jul 1860(Allan John R. Hills and Susan Johnson) Charleston, Lee County, Iowa
Marriage22 Feb 1869Iowa - William Buckley Patten
Death3 May 1892Aspen, Pitkin County, Colorado
BurialAspen Grove Cemetery, Aspen, Pitkin County, Colorado

Families

SpouseWilliam Buckley Patten (1846 - 1929)
ChildAda Adelia Patten (1873 - 1966)
FatherAllan John R. Hills (1821 - 1896)
MotherSusan Johnson (1821 - 1879)
SiblingBalsaria Eugenia Lenore Hills (1851 - 1929)
SiblingFlorella Isadore "Dora" Hills (1855 - 1904)
SiblingJulia Frances Hills (1858 - 1939)
SiblingCarrie Eloise Hills (1864 - 1957)

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