Marietta Carter Holmes
Marietta Carter Holmes (1818-abt. 1840) was born 1 Apr. 1818 in Benson, Rutland Co., Vermont. She was the daughter of John S. Carter and Eliizabeth Kenyon. She married Jonathan Harriman Holmes on 13 Apr. 1837 in Geauga Co., Ohio in the same ceremony that Wilford Woodruff and Phebe Whittemore Carter were married, and they had two children. She was baptized about Nov. 1831. She died about Aug. 1840 in Nauvoo, Hancock Co., Illinois, and her death was mentioned in a letter written from Phebe to Wilford dated 8 Sep. 1840.
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