Biographical Summary:

Louisa Beaman Young, daughter of Alva and Betsy Burtt Beaman, was born in Livonia , Livingston County, New York, February 7, 1815. She moved with her parents to Ohio and after wards to Missouri, where she suffered in the persecutions and mobbings until driven with the other Mormons out of that State. She later moved to Nauvoo, Illinois where she became acquainted with the Joseph Smith, who taught her the principles of plural marriage. She became his wife when she was twenty-six years of age, April 5, 1841.

After the death of Joseph Smith Louisa became the wife of President Brigham Young in the late fall of 1846. Louisa arrived in the Salt Lake Valley early in October of 1847, having traveled in the Jedediah M. Grant company.

In 1848 Louisa gave birth to her first children, a set of twins, both sons. She named them Joseph and Hyrum. Both children died. Again, in 1850, she gave birth to twin boys who they named Alva and Alma. They also died as infants. A few weeks after their birth, Louis a became very ill. She died May 15, 1850, in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake.