Joseph FISH
NAME: Delphine aka Della DEATH: Family of Joseph Fish, Pub. 1970 by J. Grant Stevenson, Provo, UT LDS ORD: Church Archive Record 27 Oct 1970 w/ Menlo F Smith B E SS SP Family records poss. by Menlo F. Smith Fam. Ped. Chart by Lillian F. Smith 6 Aug 1969 poss. by Menlo F. Smith Journal of Jesse N. Smith, Deseret News Pub. Co. 1953 Family of Joseph Fish, Pub. 1970 by J. Grant Stevenson, Provo, UT I.G.I. 1994 Edition The Family of Jesse N. Smith, Lib. Cong. Cat. Card 78-62813 2nd wife. 1st wife: Sarah E. "Nellie" Marsden. The families of both wives were raised on adjoining lots in Snowflake, AZ. It was said that the two wives could not have been closer if they had been sisters. It was the unwritten but well followed rule that no one in either family ever expressed any word of criticism about members of the other family. They loved one another as if they were all one immediate family. Her father related in his journal (Chapt. 24) that she was named "Delphine for one of Clark Fabub's daughters and Catherine for her grandmother Steele. We soon decided this was too long a name to be handy and abbreviated it to Della."
He married Mary Campbell Steele 22 Mar 1859 at Parowan, Iron, Utah . Mary Campbell Steele was born at Belfast, Antrim, Ireland 23 Dec 1840 daughter of John Steele and Catherine Campbell .
They were the parents of 6
children:
Mary Josephine Fish
born 11 Mar 1860.
Francis Amelia Fish
born 12 Apr 1862.
Catherine Delphine Fish
born 29 Jun 1864.
Joseph Campbell Fish
born 4 Nov 1866.
John Lazelle Fish
born 28 Oct 1868.
Jessie May Fish
born 19 May 1872.
Joseph Fish died 10 Dec 1926 at Enterprise, Washington, Utah .
Mary Campbell Steele died 12 Dec 1874 at Parowan, Iron, Utah .