Misc. Notes
Elizabeth Buck was born in Providence, Bedford County, Pennsylvania, in 1795, the youngest in a family of five children. At the age of twenty-one she married David Garlick and the couple lived in Providence, Bedford County, Pennsylvania where her seven children were born.
Elizabeth’s baby was but two years old when she had the dream that changed, forever, the course her life would run.
She and David were following the Cambellite faith when Elizabeth saw in a dream, two men with a banner over their heads that said “Truth will Prevail” and she was told that these “men were true messengers of God and she was to hear and obey.” This dream disturbed the family until a few days later the missionaries knocked at their door and she said these were the men in her dream.
Convincing David of the prophetic truth of the dream, she and two daughters were baptized as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints. David, Elizabeth, and their children went to Nauvoo in 1839, where their lives mirrored the history of that place.
The gathering of Saints that turned a malaria plagued swamp (the first unhealthy condition, that caused so many deaths) into a bustling beautiful city in seven short years, the largest in Illinois. The other inhabitants of that state with mob rule, pillaged and drove the Saints out and across the Missouri River into exposure, starvation and cholera, deadly conditions that took many.
David died in 1843, leaving Joseph, the eldest son* at fifteen, the “man of the house.” Elizabeth sent him to work for the Prophet Joseph [Smith] and her two daughters Hanna and Talitha Teenie, (who were baptized by the Prophet) to work for Hyrum [Smith, Joseph’s brother].
Elizabeth’s devotion to her faith caused her to be in the midst of history. She was in the first organization of the Relief Society with Emma Smith [Joseph’s wife]. She heard the Prophet give his last address to the Saints. She was present when the “Mantle of Joseph” fell on Brigham Young and would have been driven through all the horror that flight for life and total displacement brings.
She and her children, the youngest in their teens, came to Utah by handcart in Captain Allen Weeks Company in 1848, for the most primitive years of struggle on the frontier.
She lived first in Springville, then Fairview in Sanpete County, where she worked in the Relief Society and was generous with what little she had.
Elizabeth passed away at the age of ninety-three. She was laid to rest in Spanish Fork, Utah.
[This source includes a photo of Elizabeth.]
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This source indicates Elizabeth was born 3 May 1795.
275*Joseph is recorded as the
only son of David and Elizabeths.
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