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The third General Relief Society President, after Emma and Eliza, was Zina D. H. Young.<\/span><\/p>\n

Zina Diantha Huntington was born in Watertown, New York, on January 31, 1821.\u00a0 Zina\u2019s uncle, Samuel Huntington, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.\u00a0 Zina would be the second of the \u201cFour Zina\u2019s\u201d; her mother being first.\u00a0 Her daughter, Zina Young Card would in turn name her own daughter Zina.<\/span><\/p>\n

One day in her early teens, Zina came home from school and found a book on the windowsill.\u00a0 She looked through it, feeling the Spirit rush through her, and instantly knew it was true.\u00a0 After being baptized by Hyrum Smith, at the age of fifteen, she felt the gift of tongues fall on her and was able to see it manifested throughout her life.\u00a0 Emmeline reports, in Zina\u2019s biography, that \u201cshe has perhaps as perfect a gift of interpretation of tongues as any person in the church\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Zina\u2019s family traveled to Kirtland where they met Joseph Smith, who had recently purchased four Egyptian mummies.\u00a0 To keep them safe from the mob, the mummies were hidden under Zina\u2019s bed, for a time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her family moved with the Saints to Missouri and were expelled a year later.\u00a0 Cholera descended upon the uprooted Saints and Zina\u2019s entire family became sick.\u00a0 All recovered but her mother.\u00a0 Joseph offered comforting words to her at this time, including bearing witness of a mother in heaven.<\/span><\/p>\n

Zina attended the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo at its second meeting.\u00a0 Sisters continued gathering together, even after the group was disbanded.\u00a0 With husbands, fathers, and brothers gone, women gathered together for solace, prayer, and spiritual strength.\u00a0 In these meetings, Zina would demonstrate her gift of tongues and interpretation to the comfort of the women.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Nauvoo, Zina married Henry Bailey Jacobs, of whom she bore two sons.\u00a0 Around this same time, she was sealed for eternity to Joseph Smith with Henry\u2019s approval.\u00a0 Her husband, Henry, served many missions, but moved on to California without Zina.\u00a0 Many of Joseph\u2019s wives were given to Brigham Young, upon his death, so Zina joined Brigham\u2019s family, having been sealed to him for time only, to the SL Valley. \u00a0On the way west, she gave birth to her second son.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Zina\u2019s father would stay in Mt. Pisgah, to help the Saints there.\u00a0 Getting sick, he died within eighteen days.\u00a0 Thus, her mother died in the expulsion from Missouri; her father died in the expulsion from Nauvoo.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first few years in the SL Valley were hard as the settlers worked to build homes, plant gardens, making by hand everything they needed.\u00a0 Zina spent her time with household duties such as making candles, soap, and clothing.\u00a0 Clothing included carding, spinning, dyeing, knitting, weaving, and sewing.\u00a0 Zina particularly enjoyed visiting the sick, where she would give them blessings of health, and mother them to wellness.\u00a0\u00a0She was sought after as a midwife.\u00a0\u00a0She had several favorite home remedies, one which involved \u201cgood-sized live toads\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a wife of Brigham Young, Zina gave birth to her third child, a daughter.\u00a0 As well, she took over the raising of the children of a sister-wife, at her passing.<\/span><\/p>\n

When the Relief Society was organized in the SL Valley, Zina traveled along with Eliza to visit, organize, and help where she could, later to serve as her first counselor.\u00a0 Many times they would call a meeting of the women.\u00a0 After the first meeting, the attendees would shift position (because it was mostly the same women involved) for a meeting of the Primary, or Young Women\u2019s Association, or Sericulture, or Suffrage; always Eliza and Zina at the head, conducting, organizing, and motivating. They were true sisters, besides being sister-wives.\u00a0 Eliza was known as the head while Zina was known as the heart, of the female organization.\u00a0 The women loved Zina for her love for them.\u00a0 She would seek out the poor, lift the weary, aid the sick, and love them all.<\/span><\/p>\n

When the women wanted to buy fancier cloth for fancier dresses, Brigham Young\u2019s answer was to buy them silkworms and tell them to make the silk themselves.\u00a0 In 1876, Zina would be called as the first, and only, President of the Deseret Silk Association; it lasted for fifty years.\u00a0 Zina was squeamish about the little worms and would scream every time she had to deal with them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because of ill health, Zina spent some time in Hawaii, where she could recuperate.\u00a0 She spent much time organizing a Relief Society, helping the poor and the sick, and blessing the lives of the sisters.<\/span><\/p>\n

Zina was able to take a trip back east to visit her family; a brother she hadn\u2019t seen in forty years, and other relatives.\u00a0 She was able to gather records for genealogical purposes to do work in the temple.\u00a0 She also attended national suffrage meetings.\u00a0 Being heavily involved with the Utah movement, she requested time to speak.\u00a0 She was turned down, because of her allegiance to Mormonism and Polygamy.\u00a0 Ironically, coming from Utah, she was the only one there who could vote, yet she was denied the opportunity to speak.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1888, at age sixty-seven, Zina was called as the general president of the Relief Society.\u00a0 Her counselors would be Bathsheba W. Smith and Jane S. Richards, Sarah M. Kimball and Emmeline B. Wells served as secretaries.\u00a0 Zina served as president for thirteen years.\u00a0 During this time she also served as temple matron.<\/span><\/p>\n

Zina was visiting her daughter in Cardston, Alberta, Canada, when she suffered a stroke.\u00a0 She died on August 28, 1901.<\/span><\/p>\n

Information is taken from:<\/span><\/p>\n

1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Elect Ladies by Janet Peterson<\/span><\/p>\n

2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cA Distinguished Woman\u201d, written by Emmeline B. Wells for the Woman\u2019s Exponent, serial starting 1 Nov. 1881<\/span><\/p>\n

3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Women of Covenant by Jill Mulvay Derr<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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