Sarah M. Cleveland

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Sarah M. Cleveland (Sarah Marietta Kingsley) (1788–1856) was the first counselor to Emma Smith in the General Presidency of the Relief Society, serving from 1842 to 1844. She was born October 20, 1788, in Becket, Massachusetts, the daughter of Ebenezer Kingsley. She married John Howe and later John Cleveland; her second husband was a judge in Nauvoo who did not join the Mormon church and was a Swedenborgian. Cleveland stayed in Nauvoo with him when the main body of Latter-day Saints moved west. A 1895 letter from her son-in-law notes that, in the days of Joseph Smith, she was advised to be sealed to the Prophet in Nauvoo but lived with her non-LDS husband. She was resealed to Joseph Smith by proxy in the Nauvoo Temple in 1846. Sarah Cleveland died in 1856 in Plymouth, Illinois.