Tag Archive: women in the church

Elaine S. Dalton – portrait and biography

Elaine Dalton was born and raised in Ogden, Utah. She received her bachelor’s degree in English from Brigham Young University. Sister Dalton married Stephen E. Dalton in the Salt Lake Temple. They are the parents of five sons and one daughter and the grandparents of ten grandchildren. Prior to her calling as the Young Women general president, she served as both first and second counselor in the Young Women General…
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Barbara Thompson – portrait and biography

Barbara Thompson is newly called as second counselor in the Relief Society general presidency (May 2007). Thompson has been working as the executive director of an international assessment center for abused and neglected children. She has worked in the social services field directing a number of state-level human and family services departments. She received a bachelor’s degree in social work from Brigham Young University and as master’s degree in social…
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Sylvia H. Allred – portrait and biography

Silvia H. Allred, newly named as first counselor in the general presidency of the Relief Society, was most recently serving with her husband as he presided over the Missionary Training Center in the Dominican Republic. A native of El Salvador, she and her husband served as public affairs missionaries in Madrid, Spain. She also served with her husband when he presided over the Paraguay Asuncion Mission. Allred served as a…
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Saving the Book of Commandments by Clark Kelley Price

Fifteen-year-old Mary Elizabeth Rollins and her thirteen-year-old sister Caroline lived in Independence, Jackson County, Missouri, in 1833. At this time, revelations Joseph Smith had received were being printed by William W. Phelps, who had opened a print shop and newspaper office on the upper floor of his home. The printed revelations were to be bound into a book called the Book of Commandments. By July the non-Mormons in the area…
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Mary Fielding and Joseph F Smith Crossing the Plains by Glen S Hopkinson

Mary Fielding Smith was left a widow when her husband, Hyrum, was killed with his brother the Prophet Joseph. She had to care for not only her own large family but also several other helpless or ill people. Hyrum and Mary’s son, Joseph F. Smith, who would later become the sixth President of the Church, was only five years old at the time. Mary and her family left Nauvoo in…
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Emma Smith by Lee Greene Richards

D&C 25 Hearken unto the voice of the Lord your God, while I speak unto you, Emma Smith, my daughter. D&C 25:1 Emma Hale Smith was the wife of Joseph Smith, prophet of the Restoration. She was born 10 July 1804 to Isaac and Elizabeth Lewis Hale, who were the first permanent settlers in Harmony, Pennsylvania. Emma met Joseph when he boarded at her father’s inn while working near Harmony….
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