Eliza R. Snow

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Eliza Roxcy Snow (January 21, 1804 – December 5, 1887) was one of the nineteenth century's most popular Latter Day Saint women.

She chronicled history, celebrated nature, and marriages, as well as expounding scripture and doctrine.

After Smith's death, Snow married Joseph Smith as a plural wife and was unambiguously a plural wife of Brigham Young.

Snow, the second general president of The Relief Society of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), a Protestant denomination that was reestablished in 1866.

Lorenzo Snow, the church's fifth president, was also a sister.

Early years and education

Eliza Roxcy Snow, the second of seven children, four daughters, and three sons of Oliver and Rosetta Snow, was born in Becket, Massachusetts. Her parents were of English descent; their ancestors were among New England's first settlers. Her family moved from New England to a new and fertile farm in the Western Reserve valley in Mantua Township, Ohio, when she was two years old. The Snow family loved learning and knew that each child had educational opportunities.

Oliver Snow, although a farmer by occupation, played a significant role in many public affairs, including officiating in various leadership positions. Eliza, the senior of her eldest brother's ten years in office, was appointed as secretary as soon as she was competent in her father's office as justice of the peace. She was an expert at needlework and home-made needlework. At the county fair, she received the highest manufactured leghorn award from the committee on manufactures two years in a row.

Early church involvement

A variety of religious believers were welcomed into Snow's Baptist church. Snow and her parents were among Alexander Campbell's Christian revivalist movement, the Disciples of Christ, in 1828. The Snow family took an active interest in the new religious movement in 1831, when Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, took up residence in Hiram, Ohio, four miles from the family's house. Early on, Snow's mother and sister joined the Church of the Latter Day Saints, and many years later, in 1835, Snow was baptized and moved to Kirtland, Ohio, the church's headquarters. Snow donated a substantial amount of money to the church's Kirtland Temple upon her arrival. The building committee honoured her by in honor of her work on "a very valuable [lot]—situated near the Temple, with a fruit tree, an excellent spring of water, and a house that could accommodate two families. Snow taught school for Smith's family and was also involved in Mormonism's youngest brother, Lorenzo. Lorenzo Snow became an apostle and the church's fifth president.

Snow and her family and the body of the church moved west, first to Adam-ondi-Ahman, a short-lived settlement in Missouri, and then to Nauvoo, Illinois. Alice Merrill Horne wrote in her autobiography that Eliza Snow was brutally attacked by eight Missourians during the 1838 Mormon War, leaving her pregnant and unable to have children. Joseph Smith later married her as a plural wife "as a way of ensuring her that she will have immortal offspring and that she will be a mother in Zion," Alice Merrill Horne said.

Snow lived in Nauvoo, Spain, as a school teacher. Snow allegedly wed him on June 29, 1842, as a plural husband, after Smith's death. "My beloved husband, the pick of my heart, and the crown of my life," Snow recalled fondly of him. However, Snow had initiated a petition in the summer of 1842, with over a thousand female signatures, denying that Smith was associated with polygamy and extolling his virtue. She arranged a certificate in October 1842 denouncing polygamy and denying Smith as its maker or participant. Snow was reported to have questioned the fact that her husband, Emma Smith, had stated on her deathbed that she had never been a polygamist, but that "[Sister Emma's] testimony was very libel on her lips."

After Smith's death, Snow married Brigham Young as a plural wife. On October 2, 1847, she went west across the plains and ended up in the Salt Lake Valley. Eliza, a childless Eliza, became a vital member of Young's family, moving to a large bedroom in Young's Salt Lake City home, the Lion House.

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