The Women of MormondomTullidge, Edward W. (Edward William)
History
The Women of Mormondom
Tullidge, Edward W. (Edward William)
Latter Day Saint churches -- History; Latter Day Saints -- History; Polygamy
When the prospect came, at the period of the Utah war, that the saints
would have to leave American soil, and her husband delivered those
grand patriotic discourses to his people that will ever live in Mormon
history, Sister Taylor nobly supported his determination with the rest
of the saints to put the torch to their homes, rather than submit to
invasion and the renunciation of their liberties. She died in the month
of December, 1867. Hers was a faithful example, and she has left an
honored memory among her people.
--
Marian Ross, wife of Apostle Orson Pratt, is a native of Scotland,
and was reared among the Highlands. When about seventeen years of age
she visited her relatives in Edinburgh, where Mormonism was first
brought to her attention. She was shortly afterwards baptized near the
harbor of Leith, on the 27th of August, 1847. A singular feature of
Mrs. Pratt's experience was that in a dream she was distinctly shown
her future husband, then on his mission to Scotland. When she saw
him she at once recognized him. She made her home at Apostle Pratt's
house in Liverpool, for a short time, and then emigrated to America,
in 1851. After being in Salt Lake City a few months she was married
to Mr. Pratt. She testifies, "I have been in polygamy twenty-five
years, and have never seen the hour when I have regretted that I was
in it. I would not change my position for anything earthly, no matter
how grand and gorgeous it might be; even were it for the throne of a
queen. For a surety do I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he is a
prayer-hearing and prayer-answering God."
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Another of these apostolic women, who with their husbands founded Utah,
is the wife of Albert Carrington. She was also in the valley in 1847.
Her grand example and words to Captain Van Vliet, when the saints were
resolving on another exodus, have been already recorded. A volume
written could not make her name more imperishable.
--
Nor must Artimisa, the first wife of Erastus Snow, who is so
conspicuous among the founders of St. George, be forgotten. She is one
of the honorable women of Utah, and the part she has sustained, with
her husband, in building up the southern country, has been that of
self-sacrifice, endurance, and noble example.
--
Mention should also be made of Elizabeth, daughter of the late Bishop
Hoagland, and first wife of George Q. Cannon. She has borne the burden
of the day as a missionary's wife, and has also accompanied her husband
on mission to England; but her most noteworthy example was in her truly
noble conduct in standing by her husband in those infamous persecutions
of the politicians, over the question of polygamy, in their efforts to
prevent him taking his seat in Congress.
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