Elizabeth Hughes Jones

Elizabeth Hughes Jones was one of the twenty women in attendance when the Relief Society was organized on March 17, 1842, in the upper room of Joseph Smith’s Red Brick Store in Nauvoo, Illinois.

She was born on March 22, 1803, in New York City. She married William C. Jones in 1825 and had ten children. Their first five children were born in New York City. They then moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, were the next three children were born. Elizabeth, William, and family then moved to Nauvoo. Elizabeth was a close friend to Emma Smith, the prophet’s wife.

Records show the family reached Winter Quarters on or before December 7, 1846.[1]

She migrated with the Latter-day Saints to the Salt Lake Valley. Her family moved to San Bernardino, California in late 1851. She later moved to Sacramento County, California where she died on May 24, 1859.