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Phoebe Adelaide Chipman Christensen

5 December 1852 - 14 July 1894

Phoebe Adelaide Chipman was the daughter of Stephen and Phoebe (Davis) Chipman, Utah pioneers. She was born at Millckreek Utah, December 5, 1852 where her father had built and operated the first flour mill there. While a small baby, her parents moved to American Fork, the town her father founded. Phoebe was the eldest of seven children and played the roll of mother the year following her mother's death. Then she had seven fine, strong children of her own. She was a beautiful woman, deeply spiritual and giften in the art of making an ideal home. She was a wise and loving mother and a devoted wife through her efforts she was instrumental in organizing woman's suffrage in American Fork and was secretary of the organization at the time of her death July 14, 1894. Her early death kept her from accomplishing some of the fine and helpful things she was capable of doing. -- Stephen Chipman Pioneer, 1805-1868, Dean W. Chipman, 1980, 464-465.

Transcribed by Emily Barker Farrer, March 2013