Elizabeth Almira Pond

Elizabeth Almira Pond was born May 2, 1827 in Hubbardston, Massachusetts to Stillman and Elmira Elizabeth Whittemore Pond. Elizabeth is also a spouse to Newel K. Whitney. Elizabeth is a Pioneer of Richmond.

History

On July 25, 1833, Elizabeth's mother died of Yellow fever. Her father remarried on Feb 4, 1834 to Maria Louisa Davis. 

In 1841, while in New Salem, Missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints paid a visit to the Pond home to preach of the newfound church. The gospel that the Missionaries taught was what the family was looking for, and the family was baptized Dec 28, 1841. In July of 1843, the Pond family sold their land and began preparations to move to Nauvoo, Illinois. Elizabeth's father built a two-story, red brick home, converting the front of the home to a store. Neighbors to the Pond family were Latter-day Apostles Heber C. Kimball, Wilford Woodruff, and future Mayor of Ogden, Utah, Lorin Farr.

On Jan 26, 1846, Elizabeth married Newel Kimball Whitney in Nauvoo, Illinois. They had no children together, and just before Newel died in 1850, Elizabeth remarried. On June 18, 1847, the Pond family joined the Abraham O. Smoot/George B. Wallace Company and arrived in the Salt Lake Valley on Sep 25.

Elizabeth married Frederick Nantz Bainbridge on Feb 25, 1849, and together they had Almira Jane Bainbridge. Soon after their child's birth, Frederick left them to find gold in California and never returned. Just a few years later, Elizabeth married her father's neighbor on Feb 28, 1854 in Salt Lake City, Utah: Beason Lewis. Soon after their marriage, Elizabeth's sister Loenza died giving birth. Elizabeth and Beason adopted two of her three motherless children and raised them as their own: Martha Ann and Maria Loenza Kinsbury.

In 1860, the Lewis family, along with Elizabeth's father, moved to Richmond.

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