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Louisa Smith Young (Beaman)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Livonia, Livingston County, New York, United States
Death: April 15, 1850 (35)
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Alvah Moses Beaman and Sarah "Sally" Beaman (Burtts)
Wife of Joseph Smith, Jr., Prophet and Brigham Young
Mother of Moroni Young; Alva Young and Alma Young
Sister of Isaac Newton Beaman; Betsey Burtts Beaman; Alvah Peck Beaman; Sarah Maria Beaman; Margaret Beckworth Beaman and 2 others

Managed by: Richard Frank Henry
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About Louisa Smith Young

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, Louisa became very ill. She died May 15, 1850, in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake.

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Louisa Smith Young's Timeline

1815
February 7, 1815
Livonia, Livingston County, New York, United States
1847
January 8, 1847
Winter Quarters, Omaha, NE
1848
July 25, 1848
Winter Quarters, Omaha, NE
1850
April 15, 1850
Age 35
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States
1850