Wealthy Eddy was born in Salon, Somerset County, Maine, or Hampshire, Massachusetts in 1810. She learned to spin and to weave and made many things for her hope chest but never got to use them. When her father found out she had joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints she fled from home, and never went back.

She married Stephen Billings Shumway in 1831 and they had three children. He died in 1839 of appendicitis. She then married William Dickinson Pratt in 1841 in Kirtland, Ohio, and they were later divorced. There were four children from this union.

In 1838, she and her first husband were on their way to Haun’s Mill but had to stop because she gave birth to a baby girl, and so escaped the massacre that happened there. She was a good seamstress and helped to make the burial clothes for the Prophet and his brother, Hyrum.

Wealthy and her fifteen-year-old son, Ammi Warren came across the plains in 1851 with the Brown Wagon Company.

She married William Cornwall Patten in 1854, and they had one daughter. William passed away in Bloomington, Idaho in 1883, and Wealthy passed away in Fremont, Idaho in 1892.