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Show P18 ribune UTAH CENTENNIAL 1896-1996 Sunday. January 28, 1996 ead Ree eas usa Gates: ‘13th Apostle’ Was a Legend Sar a social and self-improvement so- ® FromPrevious Page ciety for young men and women joined the St. George Home Dra matic Troupe. made lifelong fe male friends and absorbed her self in teen-age crushes on young s menwho loved to dance among LDS Church lead Lucy Bigelow, Susa’s mother was born in 1830 in the back woods of Coles County. IIl., to his pioneer ar f herself, Gates married twice gave birth to 13 children surance His you At age 16. Gates met and mar ried Alma Dunford, a 21-year old dentist from St. Ge physical intimacies of marriage Two children later. Dunford traveled to and on a mission The mother oftwo children, Leal and Bailey 4 and2. filed for di His letters home those of an intense, sensitive and kindly man sion, irate about the divorce, and @ See NEXT PAGE W wy The Guild OC her older sister Mary Jane re ceived many proposals of mar riage, including some ried men Dunford returned fromhis mis 7 the Bigelows moved to Winter Quarters, lowa, Lucy and liance and self estore ur credit \ vorce — also portrayed insecurity and day Saints. After lacking s' unprepared for t reportedly to also overcome his drinking and marital problems parents who were converts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- women’s needs times often p dependence on others for rea While never a polygamou George. It didn't take long for Gates to turn the situation to her advantage She organized the Union Club. (all | from mar. Lively and impetuous, Luey proclaimed Provoke the t works. but dont provoke brethren while doing so the “most to father foremost, He could do no husband by 8 years ar! I'wenty years after was Ini Lake City, girls Susanne after sand with only Perhaps it was her mother who kindled the motivation for public service within Gates. . purse at her herbirth \lways father’s advocate Susa made peace: “Well. father. if u think my name ought | past Susan — Susan it shall be tc past The pen the d ame Susa held. used name and recorded in her favill because “some blun: Hintorteal Susa Young Gates was in A five as a immone winters: \ ald arning hildren to the table feat generously 1 University of on which the off was lid was 1er the ice cream nights earl teen years were spent reading sei it der rl isa fall from her was after Gates over Gates’ ence, history, travel, biograph and literature books with her fa conspiracy, th | ther sister Gate er or free, Saint or Apostate. ye . G CTecessortes (rae As I fessed disappointments, Gates was an ardent supporter of polygamy, goingas far as to blame wo men for its demise. . Hi We Suruishings brokenheart I resolved to double my diligence in doing all the good that I possibly could. both for the living and the dead, also for Jew or Gentile, black or white, bound iS and rot YY “Therefore, with a a parents had forbidden The family schedule was r mented. Breakfast was served at8 two sisters marrying outside the LDS faith could see now. that I had been altogether too exclusive in my feeling: In spite of her mother’s con- sister, 17-ve ff and m Wah sc Vy nest tn sought her as a witness in a polyg amy case, She spoke of her guilt She wrote: o'clock in the summer and half ASSO: a ired. ( his 19 wives, each having her pri vate sitting room on the main floor, On the third floor were 21 bedrooms for the children ( De tons on free dom to fill up on fruits and getables and a childhood bonus: One thing Mr POST OFFICE Eight years before her death she recalled to her daughter in a letter the agony of zoingunder ground when federal deputies vere planted for ciat Vhen Gates was 21, Brigham Young died. She had been the first child born in the Lion House which he built in 1856 for 10 of Sdetets n Young's 56 children dinner at half Latecon Portion: k” left off the “n that tumbling down old house a end of the chapter “and my only home in that far-off Dixie land of heat and 1e the boys ears. the parents dis ir daughter's name d she had been 1onor of his sister i Lucy persisted that she had named | hus: Gatesthat she had been left in the worst circumstances of all the wives with no property in Salt tially, Brigham Young refused to name his baby daughter: ~The mother names the her wrong band’s death, Lucy Bigelow Young confessed in a letter to mM occasion Gates tiptoed around him to exert her will. Contenical within 11 years. becoming wid owed at age 47 and outliving her distinguished her Wah In G clebraling ls The young bride of 16 years Brigham Young 33 years her senior, gave birth to three girls tributed equally to her reputation tie Congratulates C Me Neale of ter-wives. tests that Gates’ personal life con as Utah’s daughter never Her de- Young's invitation to her and her sister to join the ranks of the sis: Susa Gates at her roles as daugh ter, wife ther and friend at been “would termination toppled at Brigham \ glimpse beyond the public rates’ she marry a married man!” 1 [ Guild* \ Kean 2155 S. 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