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She was born on January 21, 1804 in Becket, Berkshire County, Massachussets, United States, the daughter of Oliver and Rosetta L. (Pettibone) Snow. When she was a small child her family migrated westward, settling at Mantua, Ohio.
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She was born on January 21, 1804 in Becket, Berkshire County, Massachussets, United States, the daughter of Oliver and Rosetta L. (Pettibone) Snow. When she was a small child her family migrated westward, settling at Mantua, Ohio.
At Mantua, Ohio Eliza received the best available education of her day.
Early in 1835 her mother and elder sister Leonora joined the Mormon church, and in April of that year Eliza herself was baptized in the new sect. In December 1835 she removed to Kirtland, Ohio, where she lived with the family of the Mormon Prophet, Joseph Smith. She supported herself by teaching a "select school for young ladies. " Later, under her mother's and her influence, her father and her favorite brother Lorenzo became converts to Mormonism.
Finally, the Snow family joined the general exodus of the Saints to Missouri, remaining there until forced to flee to Illinois because of religious persecution. When Nauvoo was founded in 1840 she settled there and soon became prominent among the women of her church. In 1842, when the chief Mormon women's organization, the Relief Society, was founded, she was made its first secretary. At the dispersal of the Mormons from Illinois following the death of Joseph Smith she joined the faction under Brigham Young and migrated with them, first to Iowa and thence to Utah, arriving there late in the summer of 1847, in one of the early pioneer companies.
In May 1855, she was given the responsibility of managing the women's work in the Mormon Endowment House, where the secret religious rituals of the church were performed before any temples were built in Utah. In 1866 she became president of the general (central) church organization of the Women's Relief Society, which position she held until her death. During the year 1872-73 she was a member of a missionary party headed by her brother Lorenzo which visited Palestine.
From the very outset of her association with Mormonism, she began to pour out poems appropriate to various religious and public occasions, and throughout her long life many of the signal disasters or successes of her church led her to commemorate the events in verse.
She died December 5, 1887, after several years of feeble health.
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Eliza showed considerable ability in the practical handicrafts and in writing verse.
On June 29, 1842, at Nauvoo, she was secretly married to the Prophet Joseph Smith under the new "dispensation" of plural marriage or spiritual wifery, which he and other Mormon leaders had begun to practise. In 1849, in Salt Lake City, she married Smith's successor, Brigham Young, as one of his polygynous wives. She had no children by either husband.