To know the history, purpose, and destiny of the Relief Society
This is a record written by “Aunt Rhoda”, the sister of Willard Richards, the apostle, and first cousin of Brigham Young. She was born on August 8th, 1784, at Hopkinton, Mass., and leaves this record at the age of ninety-three: During the early years of my life I was much afflicted with sickness, but, through […]
The following story is about Louisa Free Lee Wells, who crossed the Plains with one of the first companies of pioneers. Louisa Free was a young girl in Nauvoo who became one of the many wives of John Doyle Lee (infamous for his involvement and execution over the Mountain Meadows Massacre). Even though he was […]
The following is Bathsheba W. Smith’s record of crossing the Plains. You will see that this was a woman used to the finer things in life; yet, she too had to face the hardships of the trek across the Plains. We often don’t realize that most of the pioneers were city-folk roughing it for the […]
Eliza R. Snow, ever the poet and optimist, writes her account of the first months after settling in the Salt Lake Valley: Our first winter in the mountains was delightful; the ground froze but little; our coldest weather was three or four days in November, after which the men plowed and sowed, built houses, etc. […]
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