There were some courageous women who were LDS Pioneers. Some were connected into my genealogy through marriage. I picked a few and decided to put them here for you to read about. They are:

Julia P. Murdock Farnsworth

Jas. T. Jakeman, Daughters of the Utah Pioneers and Their Mothers, p. 193
Julia P. Murdock Farnsworth comes of the old Revolutionary ancestry. On the four lines her lineal progenitors were staunch patriots. Her great-grandfather Murdock fought in the famous battle of Bennington, under General John Stark; her great-grandfather, Abner Clapp, was an officer in Massachusetts; her great-grandfather Lott did gallant service in the cause of right in New York City as chief of police during its Revolutionary struggle, and her grandfather, Captain George Darrow, was over Pennsylvania troops during the memorable winter of 1777 and 1778 at Valley Forge, and all through the war. Mrs. Farnsworth's father, John R. Murdock, went to California with the Mormon battalion in 1846, reaching Salt Lake City, Utah in the fall of 1847, in the month of October. Her mother, Almira H. Lott, drove an ox team from Winter Quarters to Salt Lake in 1848, traveling with her father's family in Heber C. Kimball's company of pioneers.
The subject of this sketch was born in Lehi City, Utah county, on the 23rd of December, 1852. When she was 12 years of age her father was called to go to Beaver, in southern Utah, to preside as bishop. She attended the district school until 18 years of age; then she, in company with other girl friends, taught a free school for two years.
In 1874 she married Philo T. Farnsworth Jr, also a descendant of the old Revolutionary people and a son of Utah pioneers.( He is the son of Philo T. Farnsworth and Margaret Yates.) Soon after her marriage she was made president of the Retrenchment association of Beaver, holding this office long after it was called Mutual Improvement. She was a member of the Relief society, first, when only 15 years old. She organized and was president of the second suffrage society in our then territory. In 1889 she moved to Frisco, Beaver county, then a great mining camp, in which the Horn Silver, its largest producer, is located, and of which Mr. Farnsworth was manager. They remained at Frisco three years. For the past nineteen years she has resided in Salt Lake City. Mrs. Farnsworth is the mother of ten children, eight daughters and two sons. She is a charter member and state historian for the Daughters of the Revolution; was first corresponding secretary for the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers and a charter member; helped organize and is now historian for the Daughters of the Mormon Battalion; has been a director of the National Woman's Relief Society the past fourteen years, and has traveled many thousands of miles as a missionary for this organization. Two years ago, in the company of her husband and four of her daughters, she spent five months traveling in Europe, having visited nearly all the important cities.

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Agnes Ann Patterson was born 10 Apr 1844 in Clockmannon, Scotland. She died on 1 May 1909 in Rexburg, Idaho. She was the daughter of Andres Patterson and Margaret Fife. She was an LDS pioneer of 1852 in the John HIgbee Wagon Train. Agnes Ann married Bishop Philo T. Farnsworth, the son of Reuben Farnsworth and Lucinda Kent and brother to my 2nd G-Grandfather, Stephen Martindale Farnsworth. The Bishop married four wives as follows: Margaret Yates to whom he was married Oct. 29, 1848, and who was the mother of nine children; Margaret Adams, whom he married Aug. 24, 1857, and who become the mother of seven children; Agnes Ann Patterson, whom he married Dec. 10, 1858, and who bore him ten children, and Mary Priscilla Griffiths, whom he married June 15, 1860, and who bore him four children. Agnes Ann is the grandmother of Philo T. Farnsworth, prominent in the development of television.

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Mary Ann married Albert S. Farnsworth on 12 Jan 1874 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is the son of Stephen M. Farnsworth and Julia Ann Clark, brother to my Great Grandfather Alonzo L. Farnsworth.
Mary Ann was Born 5 Aug 1858 in Fairfield, Iowa. Daughter of Andrew M. Johnson and Elisabeth Maria Christoffersen. Mary Ann was a pioneer of 25 Sep 1868 in the John G. Holman Wagon Train. Mary Ann Died 17 Apr 1942 in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was the mother of 14 Children.

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Christianna Dorthea Bertelsen married Alonzo L. Farnsworth on March 9, 1874, Salt Lake City, Utah. She was the daughter of Niels Bertelsen and Mary Larsen, pioneers Sept. 10, 1863, William B. Preston company. Christianna was born Jan. 8, 1852, Viberg amt, Denmark. She had 8 children:
Raymond Alonzo b. Nov. 15, 1876, m. Bertha Martineau May 7.
Lester Burt b. Aug. 23, 1879, m. Rosina Nielsen Aug. 8, 1905.
Mary A. b. Aug. 4, 1881, m. Joseph Fyans Dec. 26, 1906.
Richard Kent b. Feb. 2, 1883, m. Hattie May Cluff Oct. 1, 1908.
Elmer David b. April 8, 1885, m. Charity May O'Donnell Sept. 4, 1906.
Franklin Lehi b. Oct. 24, 1889, m. Cora Walker.
Anna Roine b. June 17, 1891, m. Thomas Dixon.
Alonzo LaFayette b. Jan. 22, 1897, died.
Family resided Tuba City, Arizona and Colonia Garcia, Mexico.

Louisa Caroline Farnsworth Shipp was born 5 May 1817 in Athens, Athens County, Ohio. She died 27 Feb 1879 in Joseph, Sevier County, Utah. She was the daughter of Reuben Farnsworth and Lucinda Kent. She is sister to my 2nd Great Grandfather Stephen M. Farnsworth. She married Austin Shipp on 5 May 1835 in Blue River, Indiana. She was a Pioneer before 1866. She was the mother of 9 Children.

Sally was born 1 Dec 1836 in Gallatin, Clay County, Missouri. She died 1 Oct 1916, in Orderville, Kane, Utah. She was the daughter of Newel Knight and Lydia Goldthwait. She married Zemira Palmer on 1 Dec 1851 in Provo, Utah County, Utah. She was a pioneer of 3 Oct 1850 on the Edward Hunter Wagon Train. She was the mother of 12 Children. One of whom was Lydia Amelia Palmer. Lydia married William Decatur Kartchner. See my Kartchner page to Learn about them.
You can also go to learn more about Zemira.

Ann Rogers was born 3 Aug 1832 in Morsgreen, England. She died 22 Apr 1874 in Pleasant Grove, Utah.
She was the daughter of William Rogers and Rebecca Adams.
Ann married Joseph Moore before 1862 in England.
He died there, I don't know the date.
They had no children.
She married 2nd, Elijah Mayhew on 18 Apr 1868 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
They had 3 Children:
Lydia Ann, born 7 Feb 1869.
Elisha, born 19 Feb 1871.
George, born 22 Apr 1874.

There were many women in my Genealogy that were LDS Pioneers. I will put more of them up here as time permits. Be sure to visit my Farnsworth , Turley, Greenwood, and Tietjen pages to see more on the Pioneer women in my direct lines.

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