Sophia B. Packard

Sophia Bundy Packard was one of the twenty Latter-day Saint women who gathered in Joseph Smith’s Red Brick Store in Nauvoo, Illinois on March 17, 1842, to organize the Relief Society.

She was born on January (or June) 27, 1800, in Southampton, Massachusetts. She married Noah Packard in 1820 and they had seven children. She lived in Kirtland, Ohio (1835–1836); Quincy, Illinois (1837–1840); and Nauvoo, Illinois (1840–). They migrated to the Salt Lake Valley in 1850 and settled in Springville, Utah, where she passed away on August 30, 1858.