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(^ad&tdkcp of the fja/t fffec *Sta£e Society of the Salt Lake Stake of Zion, She held this position for 26 years, until 1903, when she was 85 years old, Mary Isabella Hales Horne First Relief Society President ofthe Salt Lake Stake Mary Isabella Hales was born on Nov* 20, 1818, at Rain ham* Kent County, England. Her parents were Stephen and Mary Ann Hales. Together with their family of five sons and two daughters, the Hales immi¬ grated to York, Canada (later to be renamed Toronto)* It was there Isabella met her future husband, Joseph Horne, at a Methodist camp meeting in 1834 Joseph and Isabella were married on May 9, 1836. A few weeks later they heard the Mormon missionaries preach. They, along with many others such as Leonora and John Taylor, accepted the gospel and joined the church. They offered their home as both a residence for missionaries and a meeting place for investigators. Isabella says of the first time she met Joseph Smith: “When I first shook hands with [the Prophet Joseph Smith] I was thrilled through and through and I knew he was a Prophet of God, and that testimony has never left me, but is still strong within me ” Isabella and her husband moved from York with the Saints to escape persecution, first to Far West, then to Quincy, Illinois, and then to Nauvoo, with stops along the way. In Nauvoo Isabella was a member of the newly formed Relief Society, under the leadership of Emma Smith. The Hornes moved from Nauvoo on to Winter Quarters and then eventually immigrated to the Salt Lake Valley* They traveled in the Edward Huntcr-Joseph Horne Company of 1847, Isabella was 28 years old. The wagon train arrived in the Salt Lake Valley on Oct. 6, 1847, Isabella wrote, “We traveled in the dark, having no guide but the flickering light of the campfires on <strong>Pioneer</strong> Square ” In Salt Lake, Isabella was appointed first counselor to President Phoebe Woodruff in the Fourteenth Ward Relief Society; in 1867, she became President. Then in 1878, she was sustained as President of the Relief Isabella served in other capacities in the Church, helping organize the Senior Retrenchment As¬ sociation and later the Junior Retrenchment Association, both at the request of Brigham Young. The latter was a forerunner of the Young Womens Mutual Improvement Association* She also served in civic capacities, including on the Deseret Hospital committee, as a counselor to Zina D* H. Young in the Silk Association, and as president of the Womens Cooperative Mercantile and Manufacturing Institution, Isabella was active in the womens suffrage movement and was chairman of the “Mormon Womens” Mass Protest Meeting held on Mar. 6, 1886. Isabella bore 15 children (including three sets of twins). She died on Aug, 25, 1905* Sources: Lyneve Wilson Kramer and Eva Durrant Wilson, “Mary Isabella Hales Horne; Faith fill Sister and Leader,” Ensign (Aug. 1982): 63. “The Prophet Joseph Smith” Relief Society Magazine (Mar. 1951): 160. “Address of Mrs* M* Isabella Home,” Womans Exponent (April 1, 1892): 138. M. Isabella Horne, “<strong>Pioneer</strong> Reminiscences” Young Womans Journal (July 1902): 292-93* Mary Ann Burnham Freeze First Young Ladies'Mutual Improvement Association President of the Salt Lake Stake n 1843, James Lewis Burn ham i and his wife Mary Ann Huntley Burnham were baptized and joined the Saints in Nauvoo with their four small children. James worked in the rock quarry shaping stone for the Nauvoo Temple. In 1844, one of their daughters
died; then in October of 1845, James succumbed to lung disease and passed away. Four days later another daughter was born to Mary Ann Huntley Burnham—Mary Ann Burnham Freeze entered the world. The senior Mary Ann was poverty stricken. The loss of her husband and the persecution of the Saints made things almost unbearable for her. Eventually she allowed two of her sons to immigrate to the Salt Lake Valley with a member of the Church, Daniel Wood, hoping to follow" with the other two children shortly. However, she was sep¬ arated from them for five long years before she was able to make the journey west in 1852, The young Mary Ann crossed the plains with her mother at that time. On Mar, 8, 1863, in Richmond, Cache County, Mary Ann Burnham married James Perry Freeze, After seven years of marriage, James entered into polygamy and took three additional wives, Mary Ann lived in Salt Lake City and was prominent in church and community affairs. She served as president of the Young Ladiess Mutual Improvement Association (Y.L.M.LA,) in the Salt Lake Stake from 1878 to 1899, She later served on the general board of the M.L A. Mary Ann was also active in service to others in the Church, She assisted in anointing and blessing women and several times participated in and witnessed Church members speaking in, and interpreting, tongues. She was involved in the Womens Suffrage Movement and at¬ tended their meetings to offer her support. In May of 1893, Lorenzo Snow called Mary Ann to be one of the first workers in the newly completed Salt Lake Temple. On Jan. 21, 1912, Mary Ann Burnham Freeze died at the age of 66 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Sources: Marilyn S. Bateman, “Becoming a Disciple of Christ," Womens Conference 1997. “Mary Ellen Burnham Freeze," Womens Manuscript Collections, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Ellen Curtis Spencer Clawson First Primary President ofthe Salt Lake Stake T"J orn in Saybrook, Connecticut, on Nov. 1> 1832, U Ellen Curtis Spencer was the oldest daughter of Orson Spencer and Catherine Curtis, Her grandfather, Daniel Spencer, fought in the American Revolution, Ellens father was baptized when she was seven years old. After his baptism, he sold his belongings and gathered with the Saints in Nauvoo, where he became closely associated with the Prophet Joseph Smith, Ellen herself was baptized when she was nine years old, in the Mississippi River, She exited Nauvoo with the Saints, and during the exodus her mother died from exposure and exhaus¬ tion. Six months later her father was sent to Great Britain to take charge of the mission. It was there he wrote the celebrated “Spencers Letters,” well known among Church members at the time. He also became the editor of the Millennial Star, a position he held for three years. When he was called to Great Britain he left his little fam¬ ily of five children in Ellens care. She was only 13 years old. During this time, the family was required to cross the plains with teams of oxen. They were in President Brigham Youngs company. The journey took five months to complete. Ellen C. Spencer was married in March 1850, by President Brigham Young, to Hiram B. Clawson. Hiram worked as a business manager to Brigham Young and later became superintendent of the ZCMI, Hiram lived the law of polygamy; Ellen was his first wife. Her letters to her friend Ellen Pratt McGary show that although she supported and loved her husband, the taking of new wives by him saddened her heart, Ellen gave birth to 14 children, 9 of which lived be¬ yond infancy. She was called to preside over the Primary Association of the Twelfth Ward, Salt Lake City, in April 1879, In 1880, she was called to serve as President of the Primary for the Salt Lake Stake. She served in this posi¬ tion for 16 years, until 1896. Ellen C. Spencer Clawson died Aug. 24, 1896, in Salt Lake City, Q Sources: Representative Women of Deseret: A Book of Biographical Sketches, compiled and written by Augusta Joyce Crocheron, 1884. “Dear Ellen: A Utah-California Correspondence; 1856-57,” edited by 5. George Ellsworth, Western Humanities Review 13 (1959). Visuals: Freeze and Horne photos © courtesy Church History Library; Ellen C. Clawson #11958 © courtesy Utah State Historical Society. 2 007 * Vo I. 54, No. 3 • PIONEER 29
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