Show r oo x T T TS Tp J A r p i i A 6 I S Ii 1 o P f fI I t Hv v r v T t f it I II I If I t 8 r THREE PIONEER WOMEN II I I i t S SU J I i is sw M ss a tt U II I oM i iff Y WARD WAnD v w was once asked tho tie number of men there thero were In his congre congregation con e ff 1 1 gation gatlon thousand and ho O replied Seven Soven And how many women Oh well said the tho great preacher with a wink you know tho tha men embrace the women That has lia been such euch a patent truth In Inthe Inthe Inthe the history of ot tho the human taint family ly l I that comparatively few teW men menever menever ever did anything worthy of woman vonian did record l wherein some sume not partially par share In the work war I It If not always In the glory In every mighty event or Juncture In the tho grand march of humanity woman has hns had Md her place not always conspicuous to the thc public but embodying tho the very genius and Influence necessary to a successful Issue I Aue Indeed the delicate touch of her hand Is l on Oil every overy part of the broad canvas of ot the tho worlds his history history history tory It H In such uch a V wondrous under undertaking taking an as the pioneering of Utah wo woman woman woman man had had no place It would have been b en a n lamentable hiatus In the order of treat great events But such cuch was not to tobe tobe tobe be recorded While there were only onh three representatives of the sex In that Immortal band that paved Its it path of glory lorY gir the distinction fell tell upon worthy spirits If It that tha t were wee the only achieve achievement ment In their lives hIes that would entitle thorn to be called noble It would be quite enough for tor the most ambitious woman but the marked virtues of ot Harriet Page Wh Wheeler eiler Young Clara Decker Young Youn and Ellen Sanders Kim Kimbull 1 Kimball lm bull ball had bed mode made them noble before they ever planted their feet teet on tho the track len Usi plains 1 These ladies Indies were the wives of the tho late lato Lorenzo Dow Young President dent Brigham Young Youn and President Heber C I respectively and were meet companions com for tor those un undaunted undaunted daunted men Until they arrived In the tho Salt gait Lake Lalle volley valley there Is no record of ot any white woman onan ever eer e r setting foot toot on this thie now fruitful but then forbidding land Una P WHEELER YOUNG This pioneer woman of ot Utah was born In the little town of ot county New Hampshire on the ith of September She was 88 the oldest child of Oliver Wheeler and Hannah Ashby her father tather being 1 a i na nn native native tive tIe of ot New Hampshire and hor her moth mother mother er of at Massachusetts She had three brothers nd one onu ulster sister Clarissa Ciarissa Caro Carolina lina Her brothers were Charles Oli Oil Oliver Oliver ver Henry Hammond and IJ Franklin Fi Harriets ancestors were vere from Wales ales having emigrated to America five gen generations generations before fhe F ph was Ins w as horn There Thero were vere three Wheeler brother Abraham Simon and nn Oliver who crossed tim tho vv oI OOOO H v oI ocean to cast er st their fortunes upon the tho western world mid anti the tho subject of at this Was the tIn descendant of ot Oliver When hen about two to years old she shore re me removed moved from her birthplace with her herI parents I to Salem Massachusetts the birthplace of ot her mother She attended school until she was ten years of ut age when she ho entered ono one of the Salem f factories where she sho became an un expert spinner of flax and wool and equally efficient as ft a weaver er cr milliner and cook cool These were some of ur the good tood old domestic IK ac n with Which every true truo and modest young oung lady lad of that day da was wis wa wont to equip herself before assuming tho the of ot matrimony She Sue was u II girl of a disposition deposition and ami sensitively opposed to every eer aspect a of ot Immorality A 1 story Is told of ot how hoa a determined but Intemperate suitor by bytho bythe bythe the tho name of ot Coates was repulsed by her hel and Dillion on one occasion hall hail to tu lieu lIeo from a house houte In which she sho had taken talen refuge from him When lien seventeen years of ago age she ho moved to New ew York state to teach choul near the little town of Phelps In Ontario county Count und and about four tour miles mites from rota the tho hill hili Cumorah The Tho same mime year ear sue sho formed the acquaintance of Isaac Decker and married d him the year be br being brInl being ing 1821 Nineteen months later she gave birth to her first child Lucy Iuey now one ono of the of at President Brig Brigham Brigham Brigham ham Young She later Inter became the mother of two other children Charles and Harriet who were wore born at nt Phelps The Decker faintly removed to Free Freedom Freedom dom dam county New York On July Jul 1828 1829 their daughter laughter Ca Caroline Caroline Careline roline reline was wat born The latter was des mies destined es tined to cross tile the plains with her ninth moth mother mOlher er as ns the wife of ot President Young liar Har Harriets nets fifth child a daughter who bo ho became came Mr Mrs Fanny Little was also born bornat bornat bornat at Freedom Time TIle Decker family a ayour your or two later moved to Now Portage Portage county Ohio where they the first heard the Gospel of ot Jesus Jesul Christ of ot Saints which they Chey promptly embraced Subsequently they removed to Franklin a few tew miles from Isaac Decker was a prosperous farmer and had gathered considerable means around him but when the call was made mado he ho freely treel placed everything he had upon the altar to relieve the finan financial cial distress of o the Church In the fall of 1837 the fatally family went to pen penniless penniless and at the tho time the Saints were leaving that city under the stress of or dire persecution They desired to leave leavo with their friends but were unable to In their extremity however Lorenzo Dow Young gave sae Mr r Decker a team and otherwise assisted him In pre preparing preparinG preparing paring to leave Ine They started In 1 37 for Missouri and after atter a n difficult Jour Journey journey journey ney they arrived In that state and set settled tied In county They were ere ed to the bitter storm that dc de upon the Saints hi lit Missouri and after the extermination order of ot Gov Coy Governor Boggs th y lied to Quincy Illi Illinois nois From I rom there the Deckers Deck rs went to 10 Winchester ter where they lived In peace tOr f rol years It H was wnm WR here that Harriets son Isaac Perm Pern was born In the tho family moved moro to 0 where the husband and wits separated and Harriet became the wife x oo O Ho X XH H m Kl f i I II 1 1 H 1 ill 1 H 11 1 1 i H 1 1 iI It i 1 H U H t i 1 NIi Hoi II H i l III 1 H H I IH H HH I 0 1 P t r V 4 J I 1 10 o t 5 r I k tb P 0 I IF 1 t F N I r II IF F 1 T I 1 f f 1 I I I 1 1 t J THREE PIONEER r WOMEN I V L t i f LL L tt j 1 1 of Lorenzo Dow Young who had been beena a true truo friend of the tho family In Ohio and Missouri The marriage ceremony was wail performed on the th of March 1813 Harriet and her husband Uncle Lorenzo remained In Nauvoo until af nt after atter ter the martyrdom of Joseph and Hy Ily Hyrum 11 rum Smith when they fled from the tho citY nt rot the time of ot the exodus They The fettled at nt Winter Quarters on the Missouri II river and in the spring when the companies were ere prepared to leave leavo for tor the great unknown West Harriet was waR I permitted to remain with her husband and because she was In delicate health h alth and ami he was afraid that she would die If i he left lett her In the orl bottoms No mistake ml WilD was male made when It was cd ed to let her come for she nhe proved to be lie bea a II blessing nil along the weary wear where she Rhe nursed tho the sick null and am did ii thousand other things that only n a nobl hearted heart el energetic woman cnn can think of ot Although she was Wll In Iii frail health slit she never noer became a 1 burden to but Indeed an at has bc ben n said paid a to many not nut Including those thoo she lib nursed through sickness the She arrived In the valley alley on the memorable of t July 4 a T lilT 1817 with an nn awful heartache at nt the th thought of ot passing the remainder of ot other her days In III lIuch n a desolate and barren bairen place But her heart henrt Will was bravo amid onel and she Hum flung despair to 10 time the winds In lii she returned to the Mis Missouri sotiri r with her husband who had hind hadr pone rOmiO r to assist his brother Joseph to itah On her return In lM iSO Ib O she nearly lost her life while driving through x t river hut but her fool cool t presence of mind saved saed her On one occasion lon while liv living 11 ing III where the thc flee Beo Hive house now stands she was saved from a savage Indian by b her husbands faithful dog doc I But Dut as was characteristic of her when the tho animal was finally induced l to tl IP m I lease the Mrs Young Youn droned his bits wound and sent him on his hi wm wa II a wiMer it Is III to be b hoped hopel a 1 I i is Indian Courage energy and magnani magnanimity amity mity III It were sere Bin signal mil qualities In her ami when at lust last on December I 2 22 2171 1571 at atthe atthe atthe the ago ugo of ot M CJ G years she passed to hr rich reward all nil tho people p ople of the time val sal valleys al alleys leys mourned her h r Inestimable low loss DECKER DI OUNO i The rho history of ot this noble woman lias ha already been buemi partially told toil III In the UK of u her mothers life She Bhe was corn nt at Freedom county COUll I New Now York on the of ur July IB She was a delicate child being with from frum roam her Infancy Strung strange e as It may seem In the light of ot the haul ships and anel exposures shie ht assed tet through In after life her parents hardly dared darell to hope hOlle that she ouI me HIli childhood When Shien she was three years yearn old she ahe ran under her tier fathers ax while he was sas I chopping wood w lOd and before Lalure ha hI could prevent H U the time blade was 11 In her tier skull The lime father fattier willi Pd with hoi ho emotions bore boro his lila child Into the house Milt Hue appeared tu to t lit be out eventually showed some Dome signs sl n of lICe life and by b careful she Him was Me aJl Meto to speak after u ml L lapse of one on yem ur Slit Mio literally fluttered between life JUI death for tor six months month The removing of ot the tIme family to Ohio Missouri and Illi Illinois Illinois nois liltS hits lien beta related l I possessed her hor mothers rare courage and presence ellee of mind and amid although a achild achild achild child of only omil ten years of age she sli Iw passed d bravely through all time the lug IllS scenes of or When then I i years earl of ot age the fihe passed cd through ion 1011 siege lege l of sickness which threaten J i h r life but she was spared to finIsh her I noble mission lon On the Sib of or orMay f fMay May 1843 she was WILlI married to President lent dent Young Youn being at tint time but sixteen years of ot ago niro She re me remained reo by the side of ot her husband In Inthe Inthe inthe the exodus from Nauvoo at Winter Quarters and when the Pioneer band led by b her great Grent and wise wlee c set sel out outon I Ion on their momentous Journey she re me remained bravely brave by his shin ld In that long bong and perilous journey although not nota a strong woman physically her brave spirit and stout heart rendered her a I valuable adjunct to that Immortal com corn company compan pany pan After arriving In the vallI if nf r the th rent great Salt Lake she nt at once began tu tudo tudo do what she emil to make mako a habitable place piece for herself and husband Her career In Utah Is marked for Its It rener Iener nobility and courage cour Re nail and when at nt last her nible race mas run hun bun hundreds of o heads beaus were bowed In are tiro found sorrow She Ahe died on Jan 6 1901 ELLEN SA KIMBALL II This third member r of the Illustrious trio was born In III the vIlI Ten li Ii Norway In the year 18 Tho The name given her parents was YEte flitter PAter D Jut but ut after reaching America Am yet yta a Ii little girl she ah was wan given the name of Ellen Sanders Her lIer was a n No terou farmer and time the Carl Nears ars of ot Ellens life were spent pent on the farm tarm In Inn ina n a 1 manner manlier understood bv hV those who are nr familiar with na life Norway Noma In III the th curly early part of 1837 1937 Ellens father tather wu i m JI d to America with his family with the Mew SIca of burring h lI his fortunes I In the time world They The embarked front from j md among tIme the passengers on OIL board boad was a 1 lad Canute Peter son who U is tile the beloved president of ot I the Sanpete Stake of ur Zion ion The Tha Son Somi 1 after landing In JJ New w York v tent en nt to Igo and from there to In I ilian where Mr Ir tip a It farm and engaged In III the pursuit pU t of It ag Ilg g Al About mt a n year ear after aCtor arriving in America Ellens moth r died anti three thre weeks week inter hitter her followed hl III his companion CO Into the this beyond Their eldest Hater sister Margaret Marguret had al ali i died led athe and nd the heartbroken and destitute I moed to LA 14 1 Salle Sails county Illinois where resided many natives of at Q Norway Nor Here flare the children separated the girls engaging as hired rt hel bet In 1 I famine and ane the tIme securing labor lallor suited lUlled to their years Ellen lIen was f employed em in a family living In the town or of In III 1812 mj mien Ellen hoard or for the first l time and thu following spring she ahe Identified her elf with the Church her h r brother Sandra Sondra In bRI nt at the time same arne time A brunch branch of ot the th Church vas IRI established e Bt Rt La IR Salle and nome Hom time lime afterward AP IM Young Heber C 0 and Parley Pulp P Pratt the community to a Stake Stalle of Zion inn to be called call New Nev Norway but the project was abandoned at that thattis I tn after fter the mart martI I f the Ihl Prophet and Patriarch I Ellen ai amI 1 her ulster Harriet moved to Nauvoo wu wi 11 Ellen Ellon entered the tho I family of C C On Janu January amy ary rth ISU hl bt wa was 1 to Pied Prell I lent dent b c side able she stood firm null and un od eti through time the th bitter r exodus the ry Journey over O r the time Plains 1 with uth as ts tim th of ot perils and and ami In time the valley of the tho salt sea where nothing ne but desolation 1 and amI barrenness rounded su them Bt I like her brave companions her and courage Increased with her nd ad and all nil those trying days she could ol nl says find time to ad administer administer administer minister a word o a comfort to the sick j and Ind the depressed or perform an act of o kindness She lived In Salt Lake until the death I of her husband Iti I ii when she re me removed I moved with her family and many man oth others ers era rs of her family faintly to Men Bear Ilear Luke Lake valley saucy where nho atmo resided about Aboul two years She made J frequent to her friends and rein rela relatives thee tives In this tiis city and was always n a asery I Iery very sery welcome guest gue In tIme the summer of i 1171 she rump came to Halt Pait Laka Inko to consult consulta j ja a physician regarding nn no affection aIT of n a 1 i nature that wax was troubling 1 her She obtained temporary relief rell t but overtaxed her strength and suffered 1 a n relapse She went to the home hom of I her brother Sander Sandr Sanders In South I Cottonwood and on un the nd of nf Novem Norem I l she ehe her lost last Ellen mIen Sanders Panders was a R woman of sterling character anti and of urn It force but exceedingly modest and amid retiring Neither she nor her two tO us used d 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