Zina Diantha Huntington Young, Plural-Wife of Mormon Leader Brigham Young

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Zina Diantha Young (Huntington)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Watertown, Jefferson County, New York, United States
Death: August 28, 1901 (80)
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States
Place of Burial: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of William D. Huntington, Jr. and Zina Huntington
Wife of Private User; Joseph Smith, Jr., Prophet; Henry Bailey Jacobs and Brigham Young
Mother of Zebulon William Jacobs; Henry Chariton Jacobs and Zina Presendia Williams Card
Sister of Dimick Baker Huntington; Presendia Lathrop Huntington; Adaline Elizabeth Huntington; William Dresser Huntington; Oliver Boardman Huntington and 4 others

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About Zina Diantha Huntington Young, Plural-Wife of Mormon Leader Brigham Young

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Wikipedia Biographical Summary:

"...Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs Smith Young (31 January 1821 – 28 August 1901) was an American social activist and religious leader who served as the third general president of the Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1888 until her death. She was a polygamous wife of Joseph Smith, and later Brigham Young, each of whom she married while she was still married to her first husband, Henry Jacobs..."

SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zina_D._H._Young



Third General Relief Socity President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, plural wife of Brigham Young.
Baptized by Hyrum Smith during the Kirtland Era of the Church, she was sealed to Joseph Smith in Nauvoo, and functioned in the organization of the first Relief Socity. After Joseph's murder she married Brigham Young. Treked west staying for brief periods in both Mt. Pisgah and Winter Quarters, IA. In Utah, served as a counselor to Eliza R. Snow in the newly reorganized Relief Socity, after Eliza's death Zina was called as President. She only bore one child with Brigham but took on four of his other children and is known to have had a great love for teaching them. She died at the age of eighty.

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Zina Diantha Huntington Young, Plural-Wife of Mormon Leader Brigham Young's Timeline

1821
January 31, 1821
Watertown, Jefferson County, New York, United States
1835
August 1, 1835
- October 18, 1967
Age 14
1842
January 2, 1842
Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, United States
1846
January 3, 1846
Age 24
January 3, 1846
Age 24
March 22, 1846
Chariton, Lucas County, Iowa, United States
1850
April 3, 1850
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States