Interesting thoughts on Elizabeth Merchant

Elizabeth Merchant was a daughter of William Merchant, a wheelwright, and Jane Garcey. It is believed that Elizabeth was in the wholesale millinery business having a large number of employees working for her. All hats were made by hand at that time.
When they arrived in Salt Lake City she again ran a millinery and hat shop on second south street.
One year and three months after arriving in the Salt Lake Valley Elizabeth and Thomas were divorced. It is believed that Thomas' history of Epilepsy was a big factor on the divorce.
She later met and fell in love with James Bird and married him and was sealed to him in the Endowment House on 8 February 1870. The children of Thomas and Elizabeth were sealed to James and Elizabeth.
Elizabeth and James Bird lived at 220 South Second West in Salt Lake. He was a cabinet maker and she made clothes and cleaned furs. There shop was at 142 South West Temple, according to the census records.
She died 13 November 1893 of Capillary Bronchitis being sick 7 days, age 71. Her doctor was O. H. Dogge. Undertaker was Jos. Wm. Layton. She is buried in the Lake City Cemetery in a lot with her eaughter Ellen and Ellen's second husband. (Death records and Cemetery records).