Susa YOUNG

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1900, Living with husband in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah
• Children: 1900, Lists having 13 children with 5 living
• Census: 1910, Living with husband in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah
• Census: 1920, Living with husband in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah
• Census: 1930, Living with husband in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah

Susa married Jacob Forsberry GATES in 1879. Jacob (son of Jacob GATES and Emma FORSBERRY) was born on 31 Jul 1854 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah; died on 22 Jan 1942 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Emma Lucy GATES was born on 5 Nov 1880 in Saint George, Washington Co., Utah.
2. Jacob Young GATES was born on 11 May 1882 in Saint George, Washington Co., Utah; died on 23 Feb 1887 in Oahu, Sandwich Islands.
3. Karl Nahum GATES was born on 22 Jul 1883 in Provo, Utah Co., Utah; died on 2 Mar 1887 in Oahu, Sandwich Islands.
4. Simpson Mark GATES was born on 20 Jan 1885 in Provo, Utah Co., Utah.
5. Joseph Sterling GATES was born on 28 Feb 1886 in Oahu, Sandwich Islands; died on 16 Jan 1891 in Provo, Utah County, Utah.
6. Bingham Cecil GATES was born on 17 Aug 1887 in Oahu, Sandwich Islands.
7. Harvey Harris GATES was born on 19 Jan 1889 in Oahu, Sandwich Islands.
8. Sarah Beulah GATES was born on 11 Jun 1891 in Provo, Utah Co., Utah.
9. Franklin Young GATES was born on 17 May 1893 in Provo, Utah Co., Utah.
10. Heber GATES was born on 22 Nov 1894 in Provo, Utah Co., Utah; died on 22 Nov 1894 in Provo, Utah County, Utah.
11. Brigham Young GATES was born on 19 Apr 1896 in Provo, Utah Co., Utah.

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Religious Leader. Second President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS), also known as the Mormons. He is revered today by his followers for his wisdom and leadership in the building of the Mormon Church in Utah. He is controversial for his belief in plural marriage and his role in the late 1850s in a dispute with the Federal Government. Born the 9th child of 11 to a poor farmer in Whitingham, Vermont, his father, John Young, moved his family to upstate New York, where Brigham became an itinerant carpenter and painter. Raised a Methodist, he married Miriam Works in 1824, and moved to Cayuga County, New York, where he plied his trade of carpentry and painting. In 1829, he moved to Mendon, Monroe County, New York, where he saw the Book of Mormon for the first time. He quickly joined the LDS Church, being baptized on April 14, 1832. After his wife's death on September 8, 1832, he became more convinced of the correctness of his new religion, and began preaching and converting others to the LDS faith. In the fall of 1833 he moved to Kirtland, Ohio, and married Mary Ann Angell, who took care of his two children from his first wife, and bore him several additional children. In February 1835, he was named one of the first 12 Apostles of the LDS Church. In the next several years, he performed missionary missions in New York and Missouri, and working as a carpenter and painter helping to build the Kirtland Temple. In 1839, he went to Missouri to help the Mormons there move to Nauvoo, Illinois. In 1840, he went to England to perform missionary work, returning to Nauvoo periodically. While in New York in 1844, he learned of the death of Joseph Smith, Founder, first President and Prophet of the LDS Church, and he hurriedly returned to Nauvoo. Speaking powerfully to the dispirited people of Nauvoo, he rallied them and was quickly given authority as President of the Church. In 1846, the Mormons were forced from Nauvoo, Illinois, and Brigham Young determined to lead them to a better land where they would not be persecuted. He and 147 others arrived in the Salt Lake valley on July 24 1847. Young was ill, and when he saw the valley for the first time, he stated, "This is the Place." Salt Lake City was built with his guidance. From 1851 to 1858, he served as the first Governor of Utah Territory. While in Utah, he had a vision that God would allow the Mormons to have multiple wives. Before his death, he had 29 wives and 56 children, for which he was highly criticized by many people. From 1856 to 1858, relations between the Mormons and the Federal Government deteriorated, with the eastern press playing up popular fear that the polygamous Mormons were about to declare their independence from the United States. President James Buchanan ordered the United States Army to Utah, to reestablish Federal control. This force, under command of Colonel (and future Confederate General) Albert Sidney Johnson, remained in Utah until the outbreak of the Civil War. Brigham Young established the LDS Church firmly in the West, seeing to its expansion, growth and stability. He laid the groundwork for Utah's eventual entrance into the Union as a state, and was a political force throughout the latter half of the 1800s. It can be truly said that he helped to build and settle the West. His dying words were reportedly a call to the first LDS Prophet, "Joseph! Joseph!"

Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson

Brigham married Lucy BIGELOW in Mar 1847. Lucy was born on 3 Oct 1830 in Charleston, Coles County, Illinois; died on 3 Feb 1905 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah; was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of Nathum Bigelow and Mary Gibbs

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Daughter of Nathum Bigelow and Mary Gibbs

Married - Brigham Young, 20 Mar 1847, Nahum Bigelow Home, Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska

Children - Rhoda Mabel Young, Susan (Susa) Amelia Young, Eudora Lovina Young

Utah Death Certificate

Biography - Her parents joined the Church in April 1838 , while she was but a child of 8 years. She was baptized and moved with her family to Hancock County, Illinois, where she passed through the mobbings, and hardships in common with the rest of the members of the Church. As a faithful member of the Church she attended the dedication of the Nauvoo Temple. The family left Nauvoo at the time of the general exodus of the people. When about seventeen years of age she was married to President Brigham Young in March, 1847, and arrived in the Valley with members of the family in September, 1848.

Lucy moved into the Lion House in 1855, before it was finished and remained there until President Young moved her and her family to St. George. Lucy Bigelow Young, lived from 1870-1891 in a house purchased for her by him.

Lucy was a major figure in the dedication and opening of the St. George and Manti Temples of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A daughter and grandchildren received wide acclaim: Susa Young Gates, a close associate of Susan B. Anthony and women's rights; and, Emma Lucy Gates Bowen, a world renown opera singer, Leah D. Widtsoe, author and nutritionist; B. Cecil Gates, composer.

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