Item Detail
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30699
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1
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English
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“You Had Better Let Mrs Young Have Any Thing She Wants” : What a Joseph Smith Pay Order Teaches about the Plight of Missionary Wives in the Early Church
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BYU Studies
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2019
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58
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2
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Provo, UT
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Brigham Young University
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53-68
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On a cold, blustery day in 1839 in Commerce, Illinois, a small skiff appeared on the Mississippi River. As rain poured from the sky, a woman huddled in the vessel, trying to protect a two-month-old baby in her arms. She was trying to reach Commerce from Montrose, Iowa, hoping to procure a few potatoes and some flour for her six children. The woman was Mary Ann Angell Young, wife of Brigham Young, who was serving a mission in England. Her plight illustrates the difficulties of the wives of early missionaries in the Church, who were often left to fend for themselves and their children when their husbands left to serve missions. This article details some of the challenges these women faced, as well as later policy changes that helped alleviate the suffering of those left behind when their husbands and fathers served missions for the Church.
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A Call to Arms : The 1838 Defense of Northern Missouri
A House Full of Females : Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
Fire and Sword : A History of the Latter-day Saints in Northern Missouri, 1836-39
Heber C. Kimball : Mormon Patriarch and Pioneer
Heroines of the Church : Biography of Mary Ann Angell Young
In Their Own Words : Women and the Story of Nauvoo
Louisa Barnes Pratt : Self-Reliant Missionary Wife
Men with a Mission : The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the British Isles 1837-1841
Sickness and Faith, Nauvoo Letters
The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri
The History of Louisa Barnes Pratt : The Autobiography of a Mormon Missionary Widow and Pioneer
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 1: July 1828-June 1831
The Joseph Smith Papers : Journals, Volume 2 : December 1841-April 1843
The Nineteenth-Century Euro-American Mormon Missionary Model