Sally Ann Fuller Gully
1815 Oct 29-1897 March 15
Born Providence, NY
Parents: Edward M. and Hannah Fuller.
Sealed to Joseph Smith for eternity January 29, (1846 or 1847?), Samuel Gully proxy,
and sealed to Gully for time. (Sealing is not in Cook, Nauvoo Marriages and Proxy
Sealings.)
Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register: Endowment record has her as Fuller on 20 Jan, but
sealing record has her as Sally Ann Smith!
Her sister Ovenda was also sealed to Joseph Smith.
Obituary—DEN, March 29, 1897, page 2—"Her first marriage was in being sealed to the
Prophet JS. She subsequently married for time."
Bapt May 28, 1837 at the place of her birth.
Tinney, page 114—has her marrying Samuel Gully for time the same day she is sealed by
proxy to Joseph Smith. She later marries an Elijah K. Fuller(!) in 1850.
Brodie, Compton, and others have her as probably Bennett's "Mrs. G*****." This would
require the possible misspelling "Gulley," but is not possible because she doesn't marry
Samuel Gulley until after Joseph Smith dies, and when she does marry him it's
polygamously, and therefore in secret. (Samuel Gully was legally married to Jane
Frylick in 1833 and had a child in 1840. Jane remarries in Utah in 1852, but this is after
Samuel had died in 1849 at Pottawattamie. [I got this info from Ancestry World Tree on
Ancestry.com.]) So, even if Sally's marriage to Joseph Smith had been in his lifetime,
she would still publicly have been known as "Miss Fuller," not "Mrs. Gully." The
marriage to Joseph Smith was not polyandrous and she can't be Bennett's "Mrs. G*****."
Randy Dixon let me look at a photocopy of the manuscript record of pre-Endowment
House sealings that has her sealed for time to Elijah Fuller, in "E. Fuller's" house, 1850
September 8. This record shows her as:
"Sally Ann Smith
wd. Joseph Smith"
i.e., it says she was a widow! "Widow" is not how a mere proxy wife would be listed. It
indicates that she was married to him at the time of death.
Sarah Fuller also appears in the Utah Cemetery Burials Database as "Sally F. Smith."
Here is the record as I have it from
http://history.utah.gov/apps/burials/execute/viewburial?cemeteryid=WG2700&id=6242
Burial Information: Smith, Sally F.
Birth:
10/29/1815
Death:
3/15/1897
Burial:
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Place of Birth:
Providence, New York
Place of Death:
Cause of Death:
Old Age
Grave Location:
St. George City Cemetery , A-H168-3
Source:
Sexton / Grant
Comments:
Relatives:
Hannah Fuller (Mother)
Edward M. Fuller (Father)