The Welsh Saints Project

Given Name: Louisa
Surname: Phillips

Gender: Female

Birth date: 14 February 1839

Birth place: Glamorganshire, Wales

Death date: 26 December 1925

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Burial place: Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States

1860 US Census	Fairfield, Cedar, Utah Territory	Extract	Image
1870 US Census	Mona, Juab, Utah Territory	Extract	Image
1880 US Census	Ashley Precinct, Uintah, Utah	Extract	Image
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1900 US Census	2nd Precinct 2nd, Salt Lake, Utah	Extract	Image
1910 US Census	15 Precinct 5, Weber, Utah	Extract	Image
1920 US Census	Precinct 32 4, Weber, Utah	Extract	Image

Left Liverpool, Lancashire, England on 19 April 1856 aboard the ship Samuel Curling.
Arrived in Boston, Suffolk, Massachuetts, United States on 23 May 1856.

Mormon Migration (www.mormonmigration.byu.edu accessed 16 October 2014), Louisa Phillips entry, age 18, arrived 1898, on the L. Curling.

Louisa Phillips at age of 18 came to Utah in the third (Welsh) hardcart company from Wales with her uncle Edward Phillips who was then 48 years old. Her biological father is not known. Her mother is Ann Phillips. The journey was very hard on Edward Phillips. He reached Salt Lake City, but he died three days later.
Louisa first married William B. Coates. Mr Coates was a Sheriff. When he was away on business he suffered a stroke and died. John Vest was helping Mr. Coates to build a house. He continued to finish the house for the new widow. Eventually he asked permission of his first wife to marry the widow Coates (Phillips). Permission was given, but the relationship with his first wife was never the same.
Louisa Phillips' daughter-in-law said that she was a lovely woman and that they got along very well.
Louisa Phillips was born 14 Feb 1839 in St. Georges Downes, Glamorganshire, South Wales. She died 26 December 1925 in Ogden, Weber, Utah