MARKS, Julia Ann (DURFEE) ANDERSON MUIR
DURFEE, ANDERSON, MUIR, MARKS, CRANSTON
Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 8/31/2015 at 14:32:31
Biography ~ Julia Ann (Durfee) Anderson Muir Marks
November 10, 1822 ~ May 04, 1892Memoirs of President Joseph Smith (1832 - 1914
Mary Audentia Smith Anderson, Ed.
Chapter Two - School Days
The Saints' Herald. Lamoni IA. 27 Nov 1934.MISS DURFEE
The first teacher with whom I recollect studying was Miss Julia Durfee, daughter of a church member by the name of Jabez Durfee. She and her sister Servilla were employed by my mother, the former as a seamstress and the latter as a maid-of-all-work. Not having enough work in the sewing line to occupy all of Miss Durfee's time and attention Mother thought it prudent to have her assist in our education, and my sister Julia and I were placed under her care for this purpose. Thus our earliest instruction was received in the home.
There was no public school in Nauvoo at the time nor until after the city was incorporated. Even then I think several more years elapsed before the public school system of the state became so far perfected that there were established schools of that sort. At all events, it was Miss Durfee who, for a stipend, taught us in our home the fundamentals of what education we were afterwards able to acquire.
NOTE: Julia Ann Durfee, the daughter of Jabez Durfee (1791-1867) and Electa (Cranston) Durfee (1790-1834), was born in New York State on November 10, 1822. Before her first marriage, she was a teacher and taught Joseph Smith. She was married first on November 15, 1846 to Blakely Anderson, born in 1819, Ohio, and died 1849 at Saint Joseph, Missouri. They were the parents of two daughters: Eliza A. (1848-1884) and Mary (849-1849). After Blakely's death, Julia married second January 11, 1851 at Saint Joseph, Missouri to James Muir, born in 1805, Rhode Island, and died in 1862, Fremont County, Iowa. Julia and James were the parents of four children: Charles (1851-1852), Celestia (1855-1855), Julia Elnora (1858- ) and Altha Rozina (1861-1934). Julia became the second wife of William Marks on September 5, 1866, DeKalb County, Illinois. William was born in 1792, Rutland, Vermont, and died in 1872, Plano, Illinois. William was a leader during the early days of the church (Nauvoo Stake of Zion) and a member of the first Presidency of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (present day Community of Christ Church). He was also a member of the Council of Fifty.
Julia died May 4, 1892, Lamoni, and was interred at Rose Hill Cemetery, Lamoni, Iowa.
Transcription and note by Sharon R. Becker, August of 2015
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