Mary Ellen de la Montaigne (1804-1894)

Biography
Mary Ellen de la Montaigne married first to James Boyd Woodward (1801-1870) in Pennsylvania, probably before 1832, the birth of their first child. Together they had four children.

She was	divorced from James Boyd Woodward in 1845 and then became a plural wife of the Mormon prophet, Brigham Young (1801-1877) in Nauvoo, Illinois on 03 Feb 1846. (No children with Brigham.)

Divorced from Brigham 13-Dec-1846-12-13 and remarried Woodward; both Woodward and de la Montaigne were adopted to Brigham Young at Nauvoo.

This couple traveled with a Mormon wagon train to Salt Lake City in 1850. Then in 1852 this family was part of the group to establish the Mormon colony at San Bernardino, California. They stayed there even after the main group returned to Utah in 1858.