Eliza R. SNOW

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AmericanBorn Eliza Roxcy SNOW

2nd Relief Society General President, one of the most celebrated Mormon women of the nineteenth century

Born on January 21, 1804 in Becket, Massachusetts, USA , United States

Died on December 5, 1887 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

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Born in Becket, Massachusetts, Snow was the second daughter of Oliver and Rosetta Snow. When she was two years old, her family left New England to settle on a new and fertile farm in the Western Reserve valley, in Mantua, Ohio. The Snow family valued learning and saw that each child had educational opportunities. Snow worked as secretary for her father in his office as justice of the peace.



After Joseph Smith's death, Snow claimed to have secretly wed him on June 29, 1842, as a plural wife.

...   Born in Becket, Massachusetts, Snow was the second daughter of Oliver and Rosetta Snow. When she was two years old, her family left New England to settle on a new and fertile farm in the Western Reserve valley, in Mantua, Ohio. The Snow family valued learning and saw that each child had educational opportunities. Snow worked as secretary for her father in his office as justice of the peace.



After Joseph Smith's death, Snow claimed to have secretly wed him on June 29, 1842, as a plural wife.



After Smith's death, Snow married Brigham Young as a plural wife. She traveled west across the plains and arrived in the Salt Lake Valley on October 2, 1847. There, childless Eliza became a prominent member of Young's family, moving into an upper bedroom in Young's Salt Lake City residence, the Lion House.



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