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Eliza Roxcy Snow Smith (January 21, 1804 – December 5, 1887) was an American poet, lyricist, and author. She was a prominent and influential early Latter-day Saint leader, and a plural wife of both Joseph Smith, Jr. [1] and Brigham Young. Image File history File links Eliza_Roxcy_Snow_photograph. ... Image File history File links Eliza_Roxcy_Snow_photograph. ... January 21 is the 21st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1804 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... December 5 is the 339th day (340th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1887 (MDCCCLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. ... A Latter-day Saint is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). ... Plural marriage among Latter-day Saints is a sort of polygamy (more properly called polygyny) formerly practiced by some members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during the Churchs 19th century founding days and currently practiced by splinter groups. ... Joseph Smith, Jr. ... For other uses, see Brigham Young University Brigham Young (June 1, 1801 â€“ August 29, 1877) was the second prophet and president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ...

Born in Becket, Massachusetts on January 21, 1804, she was the second daughter of Oliver and Rosetta Snow. The family left New England to settle on a new and fertile farm in the Western Reserve valley, in Mantua. Despite the labor required on the farm, the Snow family valued learning and saw that each child had educational opportunities. Snow had gained renown for her poetry in her twenties, published in local magazines and newspapers and winning awards for her work. Becket is a town located in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. ... The states marked in red show New England. ... Mantua is a village located in Portage County, Ohio. ...

Early church involvement

Snow's Baptist parents welcomed a variety of religious believers into their home. In 1828, Snow and her parents joined Alexander Campbell’s Christian restorationist movement. When Joseph Smith, Jr., the Latter Day Saint leader, took up residence in Hiram, Ohio four miles from the Snow farm in 1831, the Snow family took a strong interest in the new religious movement, when her mother and sister joined the church. In 1835, Eliza was baptized a Mormon and moved to Kirtland, Ohio. Upon her arrival, Eliza donated a large sum of money toward the building of the Kirtland Temple. In appreciation, the building committee provided her with title to “a very valuable [lot]-situated near the Temple, with a fruit tree-an excellent spring of water, and house that accommodated two families.” Here Eliza taught school for the Prophet Joseph Smith's family and was influential in interesting her younger brother Lorenzo Snow in the young church. Lorenzo later became fifth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Alexander Campbell Alexander Campbell (September 12, 1788 â€“ March 4, 1866) was an early leader of a movement that began in 1800 with the goal of removing divisions between Christians, by returning believers in the New Testament to principles of Truth and Union. ... Restorationism is not a single religious movement, but a wave of comparably motivated movements that arose in the eastern United States and Canada in the early 19th century in the wake of the Second Great Awakening. ... Joseph Smith, Jr. ... Hiram is a village located in Portage County, Ohio. ... | Come and take it, slogan of the Texas Revolution 1835 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... The Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the most-recognized architectural symbol of Mormonism For other uses, see Mormon (disambiguation). ... Kirtland is a city in Lake County, Ohio, USA. The population was 6,670 at the 2000 census. ... Lorenzo Snow (April 3, 1814 â€“ October 10, 1901) was the fifth President (1898-1901) of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the last president of the 19th century. ... This is the current Mormon collaboration of the month! Please help improve it to meet the ideal article standard. ...

Snow moved west with the body of the church, first to Far West, Missouri and then to Nauvoo, Illinois. In Nauvoo, Snow again made her living as a school teacher. She married Joseph Smith, Jr., on June 29, 1842, as a plural wife. Eliza fondly wrote of Joseph, “my beloved husband, the choice of my heart and the crown of my life” (Derr, p. 87). Far West, Missouri, was a Latter Day Saint (Mormon) settlement in Caldwell County, Missouri. ... Nauvoo (× Ö¸××•×•Ö¼ to be beautiful, Sephardi Hebrew NÃ¥vu, Tiberian Hebrew NÃ¢wÃ») is a city in Hancock County, Illinois, United States. ...

After Smith's assassination, in October 1844, Snow married Brigham Young as a plural wife "for time only." She traveled west across the plains and settled in Salt Lake City, Utah. Snow's primary home for the rest of her life was an upper bedroom in Young's Salt Lake Residence, the "Lion House." Flag Seal Nickname: Crossroads of the West Location Location of Salt Lake City in Salt Lake County, Utah Coordinates , Government County Salt Lake Mayor Rocky Anderson Geographical characteristics Area City 285. ...

Relief Society service

Snow served as the first secretary of the LDS women's Nauvoo Female Relief Society in 1842 under the presidency of Emma Smith. In 1866, when the society was reconstituted after a 22 year lapse, Snow was appointed president. She was assigned to assist local bishops in organizing permanent branches of the Relief Society in 1868. Using the minutes recorded in the early Nauvoo meetings, Snow created a Relief Society "Constitution," intending to unite the units in name, purpose, and organization. She and other sisters began visiting wards and settlements, and at the end of the year, Relief Societies existed in all twenty Salt Lake City wards, in nearly every county in Utah, and other nearby communities. The Relief Society is the womens organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. ... This is the current Latter Day Saint Collaboration of the fortnight! Please help to improve it to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia article. ... 1868 (MDCCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ...

Snow’s presidency emphasized spirituality and self-sufficiency. The Relief Society sent women to medical school, trained nurses, opened the Deseret Hospital, operated cooperative stores, promoted silk manufacture, saved wheat, and built granaries. In 1872 Snow provided assistance and advice to Louisa L. Greene in the creation of a woman's publication loosely affiliated with the Relief Society - the Woman's Exponent. Snow's responsibilities also extended to young women and children within the Church. She was the primary organizer for the Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Association (1870) and the Primary Association (1884). The Womans Exponent was the official newspaper of the Relief Society (the womens organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) between 1876 and 1914. ... The Primary Association is a childrens organization and an official auxiliary within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ...

Snow served as president of the Society until her death in 1887. By 1888, the Relief Society had more than 22,000 members in 400 local wards and branches.

Poetry

Eliza R. Snow wrote poetry from a young age, sometimes writing school lessons in rhyme. Between 1826 and 1832 she published more than 20 poems in local newspapers, including the Ravenna, Ohio Italic textWestern CourierItalic text and the Italic textOhio StarItalic text, using various pen names. In Kirtland, she wrote two hymns for the LDS Church's hymnal, compiled by Emma Smith. In Nauvoo Eliza R. Snow gained unique distinction as a Mormon poet, and she was later called "Zion's Poetess," featured in local newspapers. She continued to write poems as she crossed the plains, documenting the pioneer trail and life in Utah. The first of her two volumes of Italic textPoems, Religious, Historical, and PoliticalItalic text appeared in 1856, followed by the second in 1877. A number of Snow's poems have been put to music and have become important Mormon hymns. One of her hymns, "Great is the Lord", was published in the first Latter-day Saint Hymnbook in 1835, the year of her baptism. Some of her most well-known poems are as follows: | Come and take it, slogan of the Texas Revolution 1835 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...

One of her best-known and personal favorite poems, "Invocation, or the Eternal Father and Mother", was published in the Nauvoo Times and Seasons at a time when she was heartbroken soon after the death of her first husband Joseph Smith. (Eliza R. Snow, "My Father in Heaven", Times and Seasons 6 (15 Nov. 1845) (see Derr, below). This poem, which has become the popular Mormon hymn "O My Father", is credited as helping popularize and establish the Mormon concept of a goddess, or Heavenly Mother. O My Father is a Latter-day Saint (LDS or Mormon) hymn written by Eliza R. Snow who felt inspired to write it after Joseph Smith, Jr. ... In some religions, Heavenly Mother (also referred to as Mother in Heaven) is the wife and feminine counterpart of God the Father. ...

Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2576x1932, 1080 KB) Grave marker of Eliza R. Snow. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2576x1932, 1080 KB) Grave marker of Eliza R. Snow. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2576x1932, 1588 KB) Monument to Eliza R. Snow, Brigham Young Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah. ...

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Categories: 1804 births | 1887 deaths | American lyricists | American poets | Leaders in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | Mormon pioneers | Spouses of polygamists | Wives of both Joseph Smith, Jr and Brigham Young | Wives of Brigham Young | Wives of Joseph Smith, Jr Emma Hale Smith Emma Hale Smith (July 10, 1804 - April 30, 1879) was the wife of Joseph Smith, Jr. ... The Relief Society is the womens organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. ... This is the current Mormon collaboration of the month! Please help improve it to meet the ideal article standard. ... 1866 (MDCCCLXVI) is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... 1887 (MDCCCLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. ... Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs Smith Young (1821â€“1901) was the third general President of the Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a leader in the LDS movement, and a social activist. ...

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