Background
Clarissa Smith was born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, to Susan West, the seventh wife of Latter- Day Saints (Mormons) Church apostle George A. Smith.
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Clarissa Smith was born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, to Susan West, the seventh wife of Latter- Day Saints (Mormons) Church apostle George A. Smith.
Williams was the first native Utahn to become Relief Society president In 1901, Bathsheba West. Smith, who was one of Smith"s other wives, asked Williams to serve as treasurer of the Relief Society. Williams served in this position until 1910, when she became the first counselor to president Emmeline B. Wells in the Relief Society general presidency.
She held this position until 1921, when she was chosen to succeed Wells as president after Wells"s death.
Due to failing health, Williams asked to be released from her calling in 1928 and was succeeded by Louise Y. Robison. Williams died of nephritis in Salt Lake City and was buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery.
Williams married William North. Williams on July 17, 1877 and was the mother of eleven children.