Brigham Young’s Family
Listed here are the wives by whom Brigham Young had children; date of marriage to each wife is in parentheses. Also is the date of birth and deaths of the children (to the extent that they are available)
MARIAM WORKS, 1806 - 1832 (1824)
Elizabeth, 1825 - 1903
Vaiate, 1830-1902
MARY ANN ANGELL 1803 - 1882 (1834)
Joseph A. 1834 - 1875
Brigham Jr., 1836 - 1903
Mary Ann, 1839 - 1943
Alice ( Emma) , 1839 - 1874
Luna, 1842 - 1922
John W., 1844 - 1924
LUCY ANN DECKER, 1822 - 1890 (1842)
Brigham Heber, 1845 - 1928
Fanny Caroline, 1849 - 1892
Earnest Irving, 1851 - 1879
Shemira, 1853 - 1915
Arta De Christa, 1855 - 1916
Feramorz Little, 1858 - 1881
Clarissa Hamilton, 1860 - 1939
HARRIETT E. COOK, 1824 - 1898 (1843)
Oscar Brigham 1846 - 1910
CLARISSA DECKER, 1828 - 1889 (1844)
Jeannette, 1849 - 1930
Nabbie, 1852 - 1894
Jedediah Grant, 1855? - 1856
Albert Jeddie, 1858 - 1864?
Charlotte, 1861 - 1892
CLARISSA ROSS, 1814 - 1858 (1844)
Mary Eliza, 1847 - 1858
Clarissa Maria, 1847 - 1935
Willard, 1852 - 1936
Phebe Louisa, 1854 - 1931
EMIL DOW PARTRIDGE, 1824 - 1899 (1844)
Edward Partridge, 1845 - 1852
Emily Augusta, 1849 - 1926
Caroline, 1851 - 1903
Joseph Don Carlos, 1855 - 1938
Mariam, 1857 - 1919
Josephine, 1860 - 1912
Lura, 1862 - 1862
LOUISA BEAMAN, 1815 - 1850 (1846)
Joseph, 1846 - 1846?
Hyrum, 1846 - 1846?
Moroni, 1847 - 1847
Alvah, 1848 - 1848
Alma, 1848 - 1848
MARGARET MARIA ALLEY, 1825 - 1852
Evelyn Louisa, 1850 - 1917
Mahonri Moriancumer, 1852 - 1884
EMMELINE FREE, 1826 - 1875 (1846)
Ella Elizabeth, 1847 - 1890
Marinda Hyde, 1849 - 1926
Myrum Smith, 1851 - 1925
Emmeline Amanda, 1853 - 1895
Louise Nelle, 1854 - 1908
Lorenzo Dow, 1856 - 1905
Alonzo, 1858 - 1918
Ruth, 1861 - 1944
Daniel Wells, 1863 - 1863
Ardelle Elwin, 1864 - 1900
MARGARET PIERCE, 1823 - 1907 (1846)
Brigham Morris, 1854- 1931
ZINA D. HUNTINGTON, 1821 - 1901 (1846)
Zina Prescinda, 1850 - 1931
LUCY BIGELOW, 1830 - 1905 (1847)
Eudora Lovina, 1852 - 1922
Susa Amelia, 1856 - 1933
Rhoda Mabel, 1863 - 1950
ELIZA BURGESS, 1827 - 1915 (1852)
Alfales, 12852 - 1920
HARRIET BARNEY, 1830 - 1911 (1856)
Phineas Howe, 1852 - 1903
MARY VAN COTT, 1844 - 1884 (1865)
Fannie, 1870 - 1950
Wives of Brigham Young by whom he did not have children
Included in this list are women Brigham Young held out to be wives, in the sense that he cared for them in a temporal way as a husband would. He provided them with a home, listed them in his will, and provided for their children by earlier marriages, One supposes that all or most of these were not connubial marriages. The list does not include the names of some thirty women who were "sealed" to Brigham Young "for eternity only," with no intension that he would share earthly life with them or their children, if any, by earlier marriages. The names below are given in the order of marriage or sealing.*
Augusta Adams (Cobb) 1802 - 1886 (1842)
Susannah Snively 1815–1892 (1844)
Eliza R. Snow (Smith) 1804–1887 (1844)
Martha Bowker 1822–1890 (1846)
Namah K .J. Carter (Twiss) 1821–1909 (1846)
Mary Jane Bigelow 1822–1868 (1847) Divorced 1851
Harriet Amelia Folsom 1838–1910 (1863)
Anna Eliza Webb 1844–? (1868) Divorced 1876
* Two plural wives of Joseph Smith to whom Young was sealed during the winter of 1845–46 died shortly thereafter; they might have been on this list if they had lived longer. They were Olive Grey Frost, 1816–1845, and Maria Lawrence, 1823-1847
05 July 2004