Snow, Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey), 1804-1887

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Dates

Existence: 1804 - 1887

Biographical History

Eliza R. Snow (1804-1887) was a poet in Utah.

Eliza Roxey Snow was born January 21, 1804, in Becket, Massachusetts to Oliver Snow and Rosetta Lenora Pettibone. Her family moved to Ohio while she was a child, where she joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1835. She followed the early migrations of the Saints, working as a teacher in Kirtland, Ohio and Nauvoo, Illinois. In 1842 she married Joseph Smith, and after his death married Brigham Young in 1849.

Snow was deeply involved in the Church, participating in the organization of the Relief Society and later serving as its second general president. She was also a noted author and poet in pioneer Utah. Snow died on December 5, 1887, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Citation:

Familysearch.org, via WWW, Apr. 24, 2013 (Eliza Roxey Snow; b. Jan. 21, 1804 in Becket, Mass.; parents: Oliver Snow and Rosetta Lenora Pettibone; baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Apr. 5, 1835; m. June 29, 1842 in Nauvoo, Ill. to Joseph Smith (1805-1844); m. June 26, 1849 in Nauvoo, Ill. to Brigham Young (1801-1877); d. Dec. 5, 1888)

Wikipedia, via WWW, Apr. 24, 2013 (Eliza Roxcy Snow; b. Jan. 21, 1804 in Becket, Mass.; d. Dec. 5, 1887 in Salt Lake City, Utah; taught school, noted poet and author; plural wife of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young; participated in organization of Relief Society, served as second president (1866-1887); lived in Hiram, Ohio, Kirtland, Ohio, Nauvoo, Ill.)

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Maureen Ursenbach Beecher personal project files, 1970-1995

Series — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSS 1979 Series 3

Scope and Contents Contains various personal projects of Beecher, including those she headed or collaborated on. Materials include manuscript drafts, research files, and related correspondence. Projects include papers for various seminars and associations, Church News vignettes, a history text chaper, talks to honors students at BYU and other students, and projects to be published. Materials cover topics including the Relief Society, Canadians in Utah, diaries and autobiographies of Mormon women, Utah in the...

Dates: 1970-1995

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 1979, Maureen Ursenbach Beecher papers

Maureen Ursenbach Beecher project files on Eliza R. Snow, 1975-1994

Sub-Series — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSS 1979 Series 3 Sub-Series 1

Scope and Contents Contains Beecher's personal project files on Eliza R. Snow, including her poetry and songs, her Nauvoo Journal and other diaries, photographs and maps from Nauvoo and Utah, an ancestral file, an index to Snow's writings, the administrative history of the Relief Society, and other research materials on Snow. Includes many of Beecher's publications on Snow, most notaby "The Personal Writings of Eliza Roxcy Snow," "Eliza Remembers," "Inadvertent Disclosure: Autobiography in the Poetry of Eliza...

Dates: 1975-1994

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 1979, Maureen Ursenbach Beecher papers / Maureen Ursenbach Beecher personal project files

Eliza R. Snow diary

File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230331826]

Identifier: MSS SC 3239

Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a handwritten diary. Snow writes about her life in Nauvoo, Illinois, and her migration across Iowa to Council Bluffs. She left Winter Quarters and arrived in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1847. She also describes her life in that city. She also includes many of her poems.

Dates: 1846-1849

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Eliza R. Snow diary

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