Lucy BIGELOW

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of Nathum Bigelow and Mary Gibbs

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Name:
Daughter of Nathum Bigelow and Mary Gibbs

Married - Brigham Young, 20 Mar 1847, Nahum Bigelow Home, Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska

Children - Rhoda Mabel Young, Susan (Susa) Amelia Young, Eudora Lovina Young

Utah Death Certificate

Biography - Her parents joined the Church in April 1838 , while she was but a child of 8 years. She was baptized and moved with her family to Hancock County, Illinois, where she passed through the mobbings, and hardships in common with the rest of the members of the Church. As a faithful member of the Church she attended the dedication of the Nauvoo Temple. The family left Nauvoo at the time of the general exodus of the people. When about seventeen years of age she was married to President Brigham Young in March, 1847, and arrived in the Valley with members of the family in September, 1848.

Lucy moved into the Lion House in 1855, before it was finished and remained there until President Young moved her and her family to St. George. Lucy Bigelow Young, lived from 1870-1891 in a house purchased for her by him.

Lucy was a major figure in the dedication and opening of the St. George and Manti Temples of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A daughter and grandchildren received wide acclaim: Susa Young Gates, a close associate of Susan B. Anthony and women's rights; and, Emma Lucy Gates Bowen, a world renown opera singer, Leah D. Widtsoe, author and nutritionist; B. Cecil Gates, composer.

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Lucy married Brigham YOUNG in Mar 1847. Brigham was born on 1 Jun 1801 in Whitingham, Windham Co., Vermont; died on 29 Aug 1877 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah; was buried in Mormon Pioneer Memorial, Salt lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1900, Living with husband in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah
• Children: 1900, Lists having 13 children with 5 living
• Census: 1910, Living with husband in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah
• Census: 1920, Living with husband in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah
• Census: 1930, Living with husband in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah

Susa married Jacob Forsberry GATES in 1879. Jacob (son of Jacob GATES and Emma FORSBERRY) was born on 31 Jul 1854 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah; died on 22 Jan 1942 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]