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Profinda Atkinson

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Profinda Atkinson

Birth
Sackville, Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada
Death
19 May 1853 (aged 2)
Keokuk County, Iowa, USA
Burial
Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
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Profinda Atkinson was born in New Brunswick, the 14th child of William Atkinson and Phoebe Campbell Atkinson. She immigrated to the United States from Canada with her parents and older siblings in the early spring of 1853 en route to join other Latter-day Saints in the Salt Lake Valley. The group traveled by ship and rail to Keokuk, Iowa, 12 miles down the Mississippi River from Nauvoo, Illinois. They remained in Keokuk for ten days until a Mormon pioneer company was formed and livestock and wagons were procured. The company, led by her father William Atkinson, left Keokuk on 18 May 1853. Profinda died the following day a few miles west of Keokuk. Marriner W. Merrill, who was a member of the company and subsequently married Sarah Ann Atkinson, Profinda's older sister, writes in his autobiography: "On May 19th Profinda Atkinson died, which detained us one day. She was then youngest child of William and Phebe Atkinson, about 2 1/2 years old." (Melvin C. Merrill, Utah Pioneer and Apostle Merrill Wood Merrill and His Family, ed. Melvin Clarence Merrill, privately published, 1937, p. 30.) Profinda Atkinson is named on the cenotaph/memorial "Exodus to Greatness" erected by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1978 at the intersection of Water Street and Parley Street in Nauvoo, Illinois.
Profinda Atkinson was born in New Brunswick, the 14th child of William Atkinson and Phoebe Campbell Atkinson. She immigrated to the United States from Canada with her parents and older siblings in the early spring of 1853 en route to join other Latter-day Saints in the Salt Lake Valley. The group traveled by ship and rail to Keokuk, Iowa, 12 miles down the Mississippi River from Nauvoo, Illinois. They remained in Keokuk for ten days until a Mormon pioneer company was formed and livestock and wagons were procured. The company, led by her father William Atkinson, left Keokuk on 18 May 1853. Profinda died the following day a few miles west of Keokuk. Marriner W. Merrill, who was a member of the company and subsequently married Sarah Ann Atkinson, Profinda's older sister, writes in his autobiography: "On May 19th Profinda Atkinson died, which detained us one day. She was then youngest child of William and Phebe Atkinson, about 2 1/2 years old." (Melvin C. Merrill, Utah Pioneer and Apostle Merrill Wood Merrill and His Family, ed. Melvin Clarence Merrill, privately published, 1937, p. 30.) Profinda Atkinson is named on the cenotaph/memorial "Exodus to Greatness" erected by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1978 at the intersection of Water Street and Parley Street in Nauvoo, Illinois.

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