| Show ziff D H YOUNG on the slit day d of the present months monab slater sister zina zida D 16 H young will have reached the age of seventy ove are years allot braunt zina P BB as the latter day saleta love to call her was wa born january 31 in watertown jefferson cu bunty nty now itaw york and comes comee of goodly parentage pareo tage her father was william huntington on her bar na baker father was waa one oce of the first in new hampshire her maternal grandmother was wae dorcas demuck Di descended from the noble family of Dir nocks whose representatives held bold the her boi kneght of eng land sit sir edward queen elizabeths champion oham pion mrs mn s father served in the war ot of 1812 samuel huntington obe he of the ignec of the declaration of once aee was the uncle of her grandfather wm huntington a revolutionary soldier old ler the family were directly dire etly descended from simon huntington the puritan emigrant who sailed for america in 1638 but died at aea sen leaving three sons eone and a widow anidow who were registered IQ in R wm huntington the grandfather married Pree Pres endla lathrop aud and was wae qua one oi 0 the first settlers in the black river valley northern new york the Hunting tons embraced the aspel G aspel at watertown now new york and zina diantha wao baptized by patriarch hyrum byrum smith aucutt 14 1835 and soon goon after went to kirtland with wilb her fathers fabber s family in kirtland she bhe received many blessings and manifee mani fes tati trat lows the gift of bougus tou gus and of interpretation terp she heard an in visible invisible choir of angels singing in the kirtland temple and woe was present althe mem orabie pentecost when the spirit 0 god filled the temple like a mighty rushing wind sister bieter zina was a mem her ber of tue kirtland temple choir with her fathers father s family sister zinn passed through the terrible tlona in missouri of which there is i riot not time to tell like many other exiles they succeeded in aching commerce afterwards called avi nauvoo u where the saints suffered so 80 much at this place sister huntington the mother lied died a martyr to suffering nering au from the mobbing mob bings and dr ivings in nauvoo bucter zinn became a member of the first belief society organization little dreaming whai would be in the future and now great the work would become when tbt nauvoo temple was ready for ordinances she received her blessings and ana endowment therein left nauvoo with the saints in the month of february 1846 with the first company crossing oro esing the blissie sippi river on the be ice arriving at mt ML where the tb elliea stopped sau anu made a resting place her father wab wa tateo taken sick a d died she remained in winter quarters on the missouri river alive i r until 1848 when she started tut for 4 the e valley beginning the journey iu ILA ly may reached reasoned the be valley to in september when the relief belief society was wag es tab limbed in utan utah sister zinn was chosen a as treasurer ot of the first society in the eighteenth wards ward where she re awod some years after sister ellza eliza B R snow was called by president brigham young to assist in reorganizing iu in the wards sister bister alna was also called by the president as counselor to sister eliza and she was associated with her bar to in the labors ot of the belief society and traveled lu its interest during sister lifetime la in the silk ilk industry slater sister zinn zina ha boo been indefatigable and z alone labor A ingae ng as no other woman in this territory has baa done to establish eata blich sericulture aerl culture she boo baa raided cocoons herself bere elf and had charge of president Preside cit young large and mulberry orchard in june jane 1876 when a milk association was wae organized sister bister zina was waa elected prisident pre and ebb bu has baa traveled the length and breadth of the territory in its interest inte sister bieter zina also aleo took a course of medle jul studies under dr willard Ri richards Bio barde chirds in the early days day a in toe the va ley 14 and b oame come lamillar with the practice among women and has bae given numerous nume roua lecture features on oil the suba a I 1 0 of f arong nurl ng anif and other kindred topas rahe has traveled traye lad aa ly among the people and spoken as many times as any other woman and perhaps even more sue she has a rare faculty of ministering to the sick and sorrowing and la Is often alluded to as aunt the comforter having such intense sa B added add ed to the fitt of healing which she seem beeme naturally to possess her presence to ID the sickroom sick room la is always soothing and uplifting to the afflicted slater sister zina Is 19 an inspirational impromptu speaker her bur speeches iu in mass meetings and on various great occasions have been widely circulated by newspaper reporters she holds her ber audience without so an effort by her ber natural elL eloquence quence I 1 in 1879 sue visited the mand sandwich ilande alande I lande during this trip she met many noted people the same fall she accompanied sister eliza to st george there they labored in the temple aud among tue tae sisters held meetings traveled over a thus tb usand miles giten camping out over night iu in 1881 she visited relatives in new york sail and vermont and collected genealogical records of her ancestry and white while away often spoke in sunday and temperance meetings and conversed with many celebrated divines attended the woman homana la oon con eress at buffalo and a N suffrage convention in new york city sister zi ama ii a also basil ten the elders eilders in organizing a K society at cohoes now new york furlang that visit in 1882 when the deseret hospital w was as established sister zina was chosen ace president and occupied we the arduous position for twelve years the same year she attended the national suffrage convention in omaha and visited relatives in st joseph mo at this convention she made the se acquaintance of several celebrated women may wright bewail phoebe cousins and others also susan 13 anthony whom she bad already met here un on tier her first visit to utah in 1870 oal in 41 afterwards to in now new york sister zina has continued her labors among me people and to in the be house of the abe lord without ceasing year after year and thousands rise up and call her blessed she was for thirty years siad and perhaps even more a diligent sunday worker after the decease of sister eliza B R snow in december 1887 sister zina being befog her first counselor continued acting president until april 1888 when she was called by president Pres idem woodruff sod and set apart to preside over all the belief Sou society in 1891 the relief belief society became formally connected necked with the national counos ol oi women ot of the united states which entities the president preal dent to the position of vice president in this great council iu id 1893 when the co congress agress of representative women from all the world met in ID the art palace in 10 chicago at the time of the world d fair mrs young WM was present and had ibe privilege and aad the right of taking part la in the important proceed logia she also albo held a meeting of the relief belief society in oue of the halls balls of the art palace JP alace which attracted much attention at this meeting IIa abella beecher hooker elizbeth elizabeth lisle baxon and other celeb fitiles were present ent anti some florae of thena them re requested quested the privilege ot of speaking ou the sunday following at the ger er viccii in the largo large bell ball urn mr young was seated upon abe platform piat plat furm with fourteen wont I 1 ministers of different HOUR conversing conver Bing freely with th after the service upon the principles oti our faith she also aleo attended the col COB aress ress of charities and or of which she to Is a vice president youndla labors have bave been and though she has baa reached such K great areat age tier usefulness Is not diaiso lobed but increases as the field of hi abers widen sout and develops mot and more her entire time is div given 1 the service of the lord in the cl duties u ties of bercal her calling lingin in the relief belief society aaa to the ministrations in the he tempi temp where she has baa been called to presto over the is A long and a bes beaul lul ful life of which scarcely uie the bare bar oart lines are given here sister zina nl decidedly a women woman of the people be loved lo 10 red by the saints for her many ex bollent qualities qua litie her integrity to t tk huepel and her abundant charity we have only spoken or of si sister zinn here as a public woman woma in the capacity of a missi oo ary laboring among the airm achten tem but her home life has been qually equally t dw I 1 sod successful she is tender sod motherly io in her nature amt though she has not baa a large cannily of her own two sons and one dau daunor ter she has several children aimo ball 0 her mother now grown to manhood and ad womanhood to whom she amp elleu iven loving attention as an t her own and who love and reve her in return as do her own sister Z us na became the wife of th prophet joseph smith in nauvoo kauvo and a after his bis death was married to t 0 barn bam young it is impossible to cotet into details in a newspaper artlan volumes might be written or of zi na her name has gone far and wa ald and she is known everywhere for baa good works no woman in the churock is better known or more highly n s spec specter ted and not only at home bat bag abroad she is 18 appropriately a mother in israel which she Is asla llo very deed E B W |
