Poet; Relief Society secretary and later general president
Eliza Roxcy Snow
1804–1887
2 topics · 5 dated events
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Joseph Smith's Plural Marriage
Poet; Relief Society secretary and later general president
Secretary of the Nauvoo Relief Society and a signer of its October 1842 public denial of polygamy, she had been sealed to Joseph Smith on 29 June 1842, three months earlier. She left one of the earliest accounts of the angel with a drawn sword and became, in Utah, the leading female voice for plural marriage.
Utah Polygamy and the Manifesto
Relief Society president, poet
Snow organized and spoke at the mass meetings of January 1870 in which Latter-day Saint women publicly defended plural marriage and their own agency in choosing it. She told the Great Indignation Meeting that the women of Utah had been misrepresented and had remained silent too long. She launched the Woman's Exponent in 1872 and died months after the Edmunds–Tucker Act stripped Utah women of the vote.
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5 events across 2 topics, chronological. Only events this person was actually part of — present at, responsible for, or the subject of — not every event where the name comes up.
The Female Relief Society of Nauvoo is organised
Joseph Smith organised the Relief Society with eighteen women, Emma Smith as president and Elizabeth Ann Whitney, Sarah M. Cleveland and Eliza R. Snow as her counselors and secretary. Membership reached over a thousand by September. Within months every member of that presidency except Elizabeth Ann Whitney had been or would be sealed to Joseph Smith, and Whitney's seventeen-year-old daughter was.
Eliza R. Snow sealed to Joseph Smith
Brigham Young sealed Eliza R. Snow, the thirty-eight-year-old Relief Society secretary, to Joseph Smith at the home of Sarah Cleveland, another of his wives, who stood as witness. Snow's journal entry for the day reads only: This is a day of much interest to my feelings. Sarah Cleveland had been sealed to Joseph the same day.
Times and Seasons prints a public denial signed by the Relief Society presidency
The paper reprinted the 1835 Article on Marriage and stated that it was the only rule of marriage practised in the church, in order to show that Dr. J. C. Bennett's secret wife system is a matter of his own manufacture. Attached certificates were signed by Emma Smith as president, Elizabeth Ann Whitney and Sarah M. Cleveland as counselors, and Eliza R. Snow as secretary. Cleveland and Snow had both been sealed to Joseph three months earlier, and Whitney's daughter two months earlier.
Women organize in the Fifteenth Ward Relief Society hall
Sarah M. Kimball chaired a meeting where leading women drafted resolutions against the pending Cullom Bill and adopted a resolution calling for the right to vote. Eliza R. Snow arrived partway through and told them they should rise up in the dignity of their calling and speak for themselves.
The Great Indignation Meetinghinge
Between three and five thousand women filled the old adobe tabernacle to protest the Cragin and Cullom bills. Sarah Kimball presided and no men were present except reporters. Similar meetings followed in dozens of settlements across the territory, and newspapers nationwide reprinted the speeches.
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