"Aunt Kate" was born in Barnstaple, Devonshire, England and was a twin. Her twin brother was named William Mallett. While living on the Isle of Jersey, she and her sister Mary Thorne Mallett joined the Mormon Church. Disowned by their father Henry (a widower), the two ran away from home in the middle of the night and left for Utah, sailing from Liverpool to New Orleans aboard the ship Elvira Owen and then up the Mississippi River to Keokuk, Iowa. From there, they walked all the way to Salt Lake City, arriving on October 6, 1853.
Unaware of polygamy before she arrived in Utah, Brigham Young asked Kate to marry him as one of his plural wives. Disapproving of polygamy, she turned him down and told him she would not become a part of his "harem."
She renounced the faith and went on to California by covered wagon and landed at Frank Larkin's hotel in Nevada City where they were married around 1854 or 1855.
They had six children: Nettie Mary (Harrelson/Cox), Frank Henry, Katherine (Cassity/Heyer), George Fredrick, Phillip Sheridan, and Edward Mallett Larkin.
Her grave has no headstone (The cemetery records have her mis-identified as "Katrina").
Her husband, Frank Larkin, died December 25, 1895 in Snelling, Merced County, California.
Listed:
Native Daughters of the Golden West
California Pioneer Project
Volume 24 Page 406
Plot: Section 10, Plot 10 Lot 4
Unaware of polygamy before she arrived in Utah, Brigham Young asked Kate to marry him as one of his plural wives. Disapproving of polygamy, she turned him down and told him she would not become a part of his "harem."
She renounced the faith and went on to California by covered wagon and landed at Frank Larkin's hotel in Nevada City where they were married around 1854 or 1855.
They had six children: Nettie Mary (Harrelson/Cox), Frank Henry, Katherine (Cassity/Heyer), George Fredrick, Phillip Sheridan, and Edward Mallett Larkin.
Her grave has no headstone (The cemetery records have her mis-identified as "Katrina").
Her husband, Frank Larkin, died December 25, 1895 in Snelling, Merced County, California.
Listed:
Native Daughters of the Golden West
California Pioneer Project
Volume 24 Page 406
Plot: Section 10, Plot 10 Lot 4
"Aunt Kate" was born in Barnstaple, Devonshire, England and was a twin. Her twin brother was named William Mallett. While living on the Isle of Jersey, she and her sister Mary Thorne Mallett joined the Mormon Church. Disowned by their father Henry (a widower), the two ran away from home in the middle of the night and left for Utah, sailing from Liverpool to New Orleans aboard the ship Elvira Owen and then up the Mississippi River to Keokuk, Iowa. From there, they walked all the way to Salt Lake City, arriving on October 6, 1853.
Unaware of polygamy before she arrived in Utah, Brigham Young asked Kate to marry him as one of his plural wives. Disapproving of polygamy, she turned him down and told him she would not become a part of his "harem."
She renounced the faith and went on to California by covered wagon and landed at Frank Larkin's hotel in Nevada City where they were married around 1854 or 1855.
They had six children: Nettie Mary (Harrelson/Cox), Frank Henry, Katherine (Cassity/Heyer), George Fredrick, Phillip Sheridan, and Edward Mallett Larkin.
Her grave has no headstone (The cemetery records have her mis-identified as "Katrina").
Her husband, Frank Larkin, died December 25, 1895 in Snelling, Merced County, California.
Listed:
Native Daughters of the Golden West
California Pioneer Project
Volume 24 Page 406
Plot: Section 10, Plot 10 Lot 4
Unaware of polygamy before she arrived in Utah, Brigham Young asked Kate to marry him as one of his plural wives. Disapproving of polygamy, she turned him down and told him she would not become a part of his "harem."
She renounced the faith and went on to California by covered wagon and landed at Frank Larkin's hotel in Nevada City where they were married around 1854 or 1855.
They had six children: Nettie Mary (Harrelson/Cox), Frank Henry, Katherine (Cassity/Heyer), George Fredrick, Phillip Sheridan, and Edward Mallett Larkin.
Her grave has no headstone (The cemetery records have her mis-identified as "Katrina").
Her husband, Frank Larkin, died December 25, 1895 in Snelling, Merced County, California.
Listed:
Native Daughters of the Golden West
California Pioneer Project
Volume 24 Page 406
Plot: Section 10, Plot 10 Lot 4
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