Annie Laurie Maryette Adams

Daughter of William Henry Harrison Penrod and Lucene Bird Bybee

Married Hyrum Adams, 13 Jun 1889

LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, Andrew Jenson, Vol. 3, p. 579

Adams, Annie Laura Penrod, wife of Hyrum Adams, was born April 29, 1870, at Mountain Green, Morgan county, Utah, a twin daughter of William H. H. Penrod and Lucene Bird Bybee. Being born of Latter-day Saint parents, she was baptized when ten years of age and took an active part in Church activities from her early youth. She moved with her parents to Arizona in 1883 and later returned to Layton, Davis county, Utah, where she was married to Hyrum Adams June 13, 1889. She has borne her husband eight children, all of whom are still living. Sister Adams has achieved great success as an artist and has acquired local fame as a painter of animals and landscapes, both in oil and pastel. Her paintings have been on exhibition many times and received unstinted praise from the judges. She is a resourceful, industrious, amiable wife and mother. Among her many Church activities, we may mention that she labored as a Stake aid in the Davis Stake Relief Societies for eight years and has served as a Ward teacher in Relief Society work upwards of twenty years. She now acts as second counselor in the presidency of the North Davis Stake Primary Association. During the late World War she acted as chairman of the Layton Red Cross Auxiliary and chairman of the local farm bureau association of Layton.

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