| Show reat re at 1 form It ormon on C Con fe ere re nee n c Zion T Yo dau IS HELD LIFE JFE OF EMMELINE B. B WELLS ELLS HAS BEEN FULL OF ACTIVITY U TT EM PRESIDES V pd J t 6 Fd l lt 1 t f WA iti i it 4 8 v Ci z K H ft w e I c. c r V fr t 4 I I i I F I i By By the Giles Engraving Co EMMELINE B B. B WELLS Ageg g president of Women's Relief s society of the Mormon church By AMY ARMSTRONG nt tho wonderful and dear dearold r old ohl lady Indr wh has been so o Inti- Inti I ly 1 connected with the history or of Lake City since Ince tho very beginning ho last Jast February pa passed sed the y milestone of or her life ded ced during the week at the conIce conice con- con Ice ice of or th the Relief of which Is' Is president as ably iH ah she has other things Ur through gh her herand and nd c cJ eventful J tUl days s s. s sj H. H Wells ns as- as she j jally is 1 lilly ally known or Dr Ir Dr Un D B. B 3 sz was born bora l February b Jn count l Ju Massachusetts ChU C Cs s vas Ui of ot Puritan Puritan- ancestry with a L ri rich rth h age ige of or courage o. sentiment and faith received d what was wan at that time an excellent education for oman Her IIer early arb ils spent l nt llo Boston Boton ton hut but she left left New Now England l. l I 1 sho she w was s 14 years ears cars old tor for at that she Joined tile Mormon Church hurch and others for Nauvoo Interesting fact about ute tire Jour y OO IU is that it wa waH made entirely oat with the exception of or the his his- from Boston to Albany between b i places WL wa warf the only railroad In England nc In Nauvoo oo she spent time and nu there taught In a small emaiL all Jl jl 1 SILO She also organized a Sunday Sunda JI 1 of ot which there Were Vero very few v Joseph Smith s 3 5 Wells el was intimately ly acquainted with the prophet Jo Joseph ph Smith was vas in the place at the tho time of his She Is iM one of or the few fes' per- per living who were personally ac- ac with the prophet 40 t she he let left lect at t tho time lime of ot the exodus and w went nt Into winter again teaching school About this she was married to Newell K ney rey c th then n presiding g. g op bishop of or the tho A. A h In October 48 48 sh she reached the y where Salt SaU lake now nos stands and first In one ono of or the w wagons gons Just of i-of where the tho building Is and 1 where her office now Is In wa wagon on her her first child chUd was born 3 s jia has tas always alway been an n active Uve and In- In ted work worker r. r not only for the church In-I In she hc is ig a member hut but for tho the thoe thoo e o community the elt city and the I witness the theof theof theof Sho She was vas a living to of the tho gulls wh when n they devoured de rickets and saved ived tho the crops crop at the famine threatened the pioneers In arly days The Tho crops were wen eaten Caten with the tho ground ehe She says ays and rind atlon B seemed e d imminent when these theo t. t numb a 8 of or gulls guils swept S down and n devouring the pests ts Mrs orrs Wells V tied nell the monument of or the gulls h it stands In the temple grounds y years ago I ted President r iso jO Mm Mn Wells Wells' husband died later sh she married mar Daniel II H. Wells homo home life was beautiful 11 In tho those an and l l jh ho was wan known everywhere e her hospitality That she she dined y officials among monS l soon oon tells s hI the tho torY story of political pity ity She has for or the greater c part partir ir r life lite been associated with the Uw Ke- Ke th inn thi work of or which h is social LC Lee Sh She has been an officer and K ng the leading women for more than fl She I 0 has been president 2 and before for that Ihal was as secretary crela 10 for or ten years and corresponding secretary secre secre- tal tary for or man many more In her connection with the Womans Woman's Exponent Mrs Wells Wells has probably done greatest e work according to her daughter Mrs John Q Cannon In Jn 74 7 she became assistant editor and in 77 0 owner osner ncr publisher and editor She It was to whom President Brigham Young gave ave the mission o of getting the women of or the church to save s wheat Th Tho Idea Iden of ot this as decidedly unique Mrs 1 Wells was made malic the thc first chairman of or the wheat committee and she was to write an editorial edi edi- tonal url urging and instructing all nl of or the women of or the church to buy wheat and store storo it away as-a as against t tho the day of or need nece From that time until lS ISSO IJ when the church was fiet fifty old the wheat was rae sa saved IJ and in that year r e all that had been collected was distributed among the poor and needy The women then began to save again and today tollay they thoy hs luve h vc hun hundreds of thousands of or bushels stored away This Ja is la kept pt In elevators cle and kept three years when 11 it Is sold and other wheat bought It Is Js never r red used ed for speculation and never nc sold at atan an ap- ap advance an-advance dyance as th the original orIc Idea was Simply to put by for a day a when the world would need It ii Members of or the lormon church believe o that thal a day Is coming when the world will look to It In need an and the they are prepared to be ready Aid the Needy At AL different times the wheat has been loaned to communities for seed when It EI teemed seemed med necessary This was done re recently recently re- re cc In Duchesne when If it there had en bt-en no such nuch provision many men would have havo had to lose their land Tho They Thoy were hc and had to cultivate ato Mrs l ells die ha has always been particularly in in- in rested k-rested in this branch of or her work worle and amI has been successful In accomplishing accomplish accomplish- In ing results Tho The committee sent the first carload of wheat to San Francisco after the earthquake ak and also sent to China during the famine The rho Womans Woman's Exponent Is the thc only t place lace where a record of or the tho work worle of or orthE the tite women of ot Utah has been k kepL pL This record includes cs not only what whal w women men in the church have done dOlle but hut everything every every- thing of Importance with which women have been associated can call bo be learned about In lU the pages of the Exponent Mrs hs has haR ever b been cn an ardent worker in the Interests of or women She Sho he has hall worked for tor woman suffrage and was as largely instrumental In havIng haying the plank for foe It included In the constitution of or Utah w when en It was W admitted to st state state- te- te hOo hood 1 She has haK met with witt nil all hi of or the leaders leaders leaders lead lead- ers f for r suffrage In th tho ho United States and abroad She wears She ears t today a aring aring ring given her b by Susan B n. Anthony Anthon as asa asa asa a token of ot appreciation for her work worl for women One of at her ua J daughters has written about her She has never ne failed In hi fidelity to women an any more mote than Infidelity to the Lord Tord Most zealous has she labored both bolh at horne home anti and abroad In her quaint determined way to advance the tho cause 01 ol political equality for all Sh Shu so o appreciates ap sip- the tho right of suffrage that never nev nev- C er J since tho privilege to vole vote was given s the tho women of Utah has she failed to cast h her r ballot always walking unaccompanied unaccompanied unac unac- companied to the polling places s Is a I Writer Writer an as well as us worker Mrs r Wells has lU an any of or literary works orles to her credit aside from that done dono In connection connection connection con con- with v the Exponent Her volume volume vet vol vol ume imo o of poel poems l Musings lu ln s and Memories Memories Memo Memo- ries Is widely known and sho lio has halt In preparation and ha has already cady the COl copy copy- y- y right for tor p. p a book of or Aunt Ems Em's Stor- Stor lee ice Jibe famil family expects to have It published soon In spite pIt or of the fact th that t Mrs Irs Wells Welts Is 87 years old she and her friends celo- celo her r c cominG of or ago age February 29 29 1912 The old lady Indy has baa all her hera life had a birthday at b best st only ever every four years pars rs' rs arid and sometimes only er co every eight On this oc occasion slon Brigham Briham Toun Young Toung university conferred upon POM her the honorary honorary honorary hon- hon degree of or Doctor of ot Literature Daughters Daughter's Tribute In a recent article about her mot moth moth- or er Mrs John Q Cannon has lias said sald Few Hoi Women P posses so strong a 1 per- per as S Aunt Em Ern A As U she threads her hr wa way along alen a a. crow crowded ed thoroughfare or through hr the mazes marea of a reception room all eyes turn to see sea the tho little gray gray- ay- ay haired lady dr dressed s-d s in 5 delicate blue or gla gray rf silk w with th flimsy laces lace and soft around the shoulders and Just a word vord from h her r 1 dear ar Ul lips s or a touch of ot her n soft nV hand Is s like a benediction w Her hife work is ls perhaps n nearly arl over iet et s t to that which she Bhe deems greatest or of all U The he she sho slut deVotes de- de Votes otes her time and th thou thought ht In the Iho ot of f life when the shadows shadow are areM 80 M marked Med with the glow Klow of ot lifes life's sunset sun sun- r Em set still sits lingering In the heart Aunt among her coworkers like a priestess h her r small mall graceful hod body embracing em om- bracing the dignity o of a queen her broad int intelligence ence enlightening c her II lis hI- tenets her wisdom antI and hl- hl re restraining re- re straining the tha incautious and her broad charlt charity and sympathy enveloping en all who como come near her with thin the halo o of her love And some ome time lime In the after years when you rou want ant to r recall call Aunt Em tako take up her volume of at poems Musings and Memories and go Jo with her Into the world of dreams dream or If It you ou are nrc fortunate fort enough to possess a bound volume of the Womans Woman's Exponent that periodical to which she gave Rave so much of ot her lifes life's work therein ma may you find records of or women work worle stories i essays YB jays from her gifted pen which would J If pos pos- sible make you know her better and lov love her more than any tribute which loving lovin pen lon can an write |
