The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-12
DEATH bECkONS
To MRS. YOUNG
Seventeenth and Fav0Tite Wife
of President Young Passes
Away.
DIES SUNDAY MORNING
OF L0C0M0TGR ATAXIA
Was Woman of Uncommon
Beauty and Above Average
Of Sex in Intelligence.

seventeenth wife of the late brigham
Young, President of the Church of
Jesus Christ OF Latter day Saints, com
monty known as the Mormon church.
died at her homo in this city, South
Temple and First West streets. Sun
day morning at 4 o clock. The cause
OF death was paralysis.
Mrs. Young was the daughter Of the
late ". H. and ,Terviah Eliza Clark
Folsom, both of New England blue
blood stock. and was born In the city
of Buffalo, n. Y. August %. 1888.
Mrs. Young migrated with her parents
to Utah, arriving in this valley October
B, 1860 IN that year she met Brig
ham Young and she was married to
him January "a, 1863. thereby becom-
ing his seventeenth wife.
Mrs. Young was well educated and
far above the average Of her sex in
Intelligence. In the early DAYS Of Salt
Lake she was considered the finest
vocalist and most accomplished piauiste
In the city In person she was comely
and winsome. and she was an excel.
lent entertainer. and all through her
long life she enjoyed the friendship of
host of admiring friends. In moth
ing. perhaps. was the refinement of her
character more exemplified than IN the
artistic arrangement of her homo.
where she had resided for the last
thirty years. She was lover of art.
and the rooms of her house are adorned
with number of valuable paintings by
noted artists of this country and Eu
rooe.
In work; of charity Mrs. Young was
active but transformations. and many
~ Is Z, h., Of
an unseen givcr.
Palace Built for Her.
The Gardo house, better known as the
and Mrs. E. F. Holmes, was built by
Brigham Young for Mrs Young's espe-
cial use. but was not occupied by her
until after her husband s death, when
she lived in it for two or three years.
Mrs Young was active in woman s
work-was a believer in woman suf-
fraee, and was one of q committee to
visit Washington more than "A decade
ago in the interest of woman S rights.
Until three years ago last November,
Mrs. Young had always been a strong.
lealthy woman. At that time she suf-
fered a stroke of paralysis, which was
followed by creeping paralysis, or loco.
motor ataxia. In the greater part of
the past year she was confined to her
house, and in the past six weeks was
entirely helpless.
Thirty.five wears ago or so. Brigham
Young was the husband of nineteen or
twenty wives. Now all but two are
dead
The funeral services will be held in
the Fourtheenth ward meeting house
Thursday afternoon at clock
Bishop Elias Woodruff of the ward will
have charge of the services. 1nterment
will be in the City cemetery.
The following article was written by
Eugene Traughper of The Tribu-e for
syndicate, in the fall of 1892. and was
published in approximately $50 news
papers, including The Tribune. The
interview was given upon the written
request of President George Q. Can
non. Before being sent TO the publish
ers, the article was read and approved
by Mrs. Young and the first presi
dency the Mormon church.
Tells Story of Her Life.
In the Junior Gardo," handsome and
comfortable two-story house at South
Temple and First West street, in Sail
Lake City. resides Amelia Folsom Young
@ Moon sRd lsy0r5e a5eob e Of t
Young. II was a cold winter day of this
new year that / called on the former
queen OF Mormon society. and through
the courtesy Of President George O. Can
non OF the Mormon church. from whom
bore letter of introduction. was
granted an audience An interview II
Brigham Young XVII. as from the presi
dent OF the United States. as she is dali,
besieged BY curious tourists. both in per
son and by letter. and when admitted
these morbid. curiosity seekers alway,
subject their hostess TO humiliatin2 anC
often insulting questions and comments
Young II was easy for me to believe tha
she had been the most popular of Brig
ham Young's nineteen wives. She is tai
and symmetrical in form. dignihed an,
graceful I'm manner, and a brilliant con
versationalist. The stlvery locks whic
tell the story OF ffty and FIVE years o
her eyentful life. are mingled wit
threads Of gold. reminiscent OF the beaut
of former years. and the large blue eye
have lost nothing OF their fire and ex
pressiveness
Mrs. Young told me that she had neve
before submitted 70 an interview fror
representative Of the press. She wa
aware that many unauthentic and un
ir truthful newsPnnsr n.i articles had had been pub
band. and II was 10 correct the false In,
preston conveyed in these stories tina
she was willing to talk to the public.
Born in Buffalo.
4 Harriet Amelia Folsom was horn Au
gust 2S. 1898: in Buffalo, n. Y, the birth
place Of Frances Folsom. now Mr.
N Cleveland. near relative OF Mr.
\ Young. VINO has taken some interest /
II
4 Mrs. Cleveland and Amelia Folsom Youn
4 are cousins. having sprung from III
same original Folsom family in Ne
preached on this subject. desired not
Il talk. stating that she had knowcdp
4 of Just what kinship. II any, she boar
H TO Mrs. Cleveland. never having locke
IA UP her eeneaogy with any such object
a view. but Massachusetts, member Of Ii
N Folsom family. having traced the
3 geneaIogy says fhe two famous wome
IN are second cousins.
IA The Mormon church was religious IL
"A fant when Amelia Folsom was born, ar
IL was not until she was three years
N age that her parents embraced the ne
IN faith of Joseph Smith. another Ne
IN Yorker In 1876 tho Folsom family move
In 10 Nauvoo. H.. tile site OF the first Mo
|H mon temple. hut were not permitted
III remain loug. Tho people having risen
lt against the Mormons. killing the
prophet Joseph Smith. and driving
III his followers out OF the state. The Fo
som family went 10 KeoEuk and afte
Fl ward 10 Council Bluffs Ia. and early
81 1860 started across the plains for "a