The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-11-14
BRIdHAMYoUNG's WIDOWS.
Ann Eliza Recounts Recollections of the
Household Of Which She Was Formerly
the Nineteenth Fraction.

Ann Eliza Recounts Recollections OF the
Household IF Which She Was Formerly
the Nineteenth Fraction.
A reporter of the Chicago Times re-
Gently made the acquaintance of the one
time famous "Ann Eiza," the nine
lccnth wife Of Brigham Young. She is
now happily married and living in Il
pleasant home in Chicago. In conver
satiOn with the reporter she displayed
photographs Of several of the Mcsdamcs
Young and chatted familiarly about
them.
The original of one picture-Miss
She was quite a beauty, with light hair
and blue eyes and sweet and kissable
mouth. She refused to marry Young at
first, but yielded when he promised to
make her queen in heaven. She GaS
married to him on the 23rd Of January,
1868, six months after the anti-poly-
gamy law had boen passed by Congress,
and she did it openly and in defiance of
the law.
"She has temper of her own," said
Ann Eliza, land gave Brigham the ben
eft of it, too. | once heard her threaten
to thrash Brigham if he did not do a
certain thing, and it may be recorded
that he did it. She never had any chill
dren.
"Miss Eliza r. Snow, the Mormon
poctes:, was at one time the most noted
of all Brigham's wives. She wrote hymns
for all occasions, aid nearly all of her
poetry was of deep religious sentiment.
She was rather plain looking, but was
perhaps the most intellectual of them
all. I think she was the sixteenth wife
that Brigham had sealed to him. She
was only "proxy" wife, and will be-
long to Joseph Smith in eternity.
"What is a proxy wife? Why, the
Mormon religion teaches that the more
children mall has the higher he and his
wives and children will he in the next
world. So Mormon will have wife
for time and eternity as well as one
who is his simply for time The latter
will become the wife of some one else
when the next world is reached. Thus
Miss Snow will be Joseph Smiths wife
in heaven, and all of her children will
60 to increase his kingdom and help to
cover him with honor
THE only other picture 1 have of any
Mrs. Young is that of Zina D. Hunting
ton, formerly the wife of a man named
Henry Jacobs, who was at one time a
Mormon. She was not handsome, but
she vas very noble woman, and spent
he life in the service of her ungrateful
husband and her still more ungrateful
Church. She was for long time the
physician and nurse for the household.
She was q deYout believer She was
large and fine looking, but her face had
an expression of sadness about it that
showed she was weary of the world.
"Among the more interesting facts
connected with Brigham's wives mi ght
mention that almost all Of them were
dark and they were all Americans but
two.
''The oldest of his marriages. We'll,
to tell The truth, they were all odd
enough, but perhaps the queerest was
his marriage with Mrs. Lewis. She
owned a piece of land through which
Brigham wanted to run watercourse
to supply one of his mills. She refused
to allow him the privilege, so he mar
ried her and thus secured possession of
the whole property. She was the last
one that he married, and he did not
openly acknowledge her, but requested
her to keep it secret, probably for the
reason that he was ashamed of her.
"Since quit the lecture stage few
years ago, I have become quite domestic
in my tastes, and you may be sure that
I value the home that now have.
my two sons by my first husband are
living and doing we'll. One holds a
prominent position with the same rail
road with which my husband is con-
nected, and the other is merchant in
New York town. They are both true
men, aud am proud of them.
"I have had three children since my
las. marriage. Two Of them are going
to school here, the other one being too
young as yet to enter"