Taylor was among the first English women to join the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints when she was baptized in the River Ribble in 1837.
Neighbors Willard and Jeanetta Richards adopted their eight-year-old daughter Ellen to help ease the burden.
When the couple regained health in 1845, Partington found work as a carpenter and Ann gave birth to another child.
When mobs forced the Mormons from Nauvoo in the winter of 1846, the Partingtons ended up across the river in Montrose, Iowa, with no provisions.
Instead of heading west with the main body of Latter Day Saints (including Ellen and the Richards family), they moved to St. Louis where Partington found more carpentry work.