Anna Maria Ballantyne Taylor

21 October 1849–12 March 1909

Born 21 Oct. 1849 in Salt Lake City.[1] Daughter of John Taylor and Jane Ballantyne.[2] Married Alonzo Eugene Hyde, 15 Dec. 1870, at Salt Lake City; eight children.[3] Served as second counselor in the Salt Lake City Seventeenth Ward Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Association, 1880–1884.[4] Served as first counselor to Salt Lake Stake Relief Society president Isabella M. Horne, 1895–1901.[5] Member of the Reaper’s Club; appointed to the program committee, 17 Jan. 1898.[6] Founder of Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, 11 Apr. 1901, in Salt Lake City; served as president, 1901–Apr. 1903.[7] Served as first counselor to general Relief Society president Bathsheba Smith, with EBW as secretary, 1901–1909.[8] Appointed as a missionary for the Church Bureau of Information.[9] Delegate with EBW and others to the National Council of Women convention held in Washington DC, Feb. 1902.[10] Died 12 Mar. 1909 in Salt Lake City.[11]

 

[1] “Endowments of the Living, 1851–1884,” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Endowment House, vol. E, p. 138, Anna Marie Taylor, 17 June 1865 microfilm 183405 (restricted access), FHL. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 18 Dec. 2017), Annie Maria Ballantyne Taylor (KWN5-Z82).

[2] “Endowments of the Living, 1851–1884,” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Endowment House, vol. E, p. 138, Anna Marie Taylor, 17 June 1865 microfilm 183405 (restricted access), FHL.

[3] “Sealings of Couples, Living and by Proxy, 1851–1889,” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Endowment House, vol. G, Alonzo Eugene Hyde and Anna Maria Ballantyne Taylor, 15 Dec. 1870, microfilm 1149516 (restricted access), FHL. Andrew Jenson Collection, ca. 1841–1942, Annie Taylor Hyde, b. 1849, p. [1], CHL.

[4] “Annie Taylor Hyde,” Young Woman’s Journal, Aug. 1904, 359. Seventeenth Ward, Salt Lake Stake, Seventeenth Ward Manuscript History and Historical Reports, “YLMIA/MIA,” CHL.

[5] “Annie Taylor Hyde,” Young Woman’s Journal, Aug. 1904, 359. Salt Lake Stake, Salt Lake Stake Manuscript History and Historical Reports, 12 June 1895, CHL.

[6] EBW, Diary, 7 Jan. 1895, 23 Jan. 1899, and 17 Jan. 1898.

[7] “Organizational Structure of Daughters of Utah Pioneers,” Daughters of Utah Pioneers (http://www.dupinternational.org/subpage_DUPOrganization.php, accessed 19 Apr. 2018). “Annie Taylor Hyde,” Young Woman’s Journal, Aug. 1904, 359.

[8] History of Relief Society, 1842–1966 (Salt Lake City: General Board of Relief Society, 1966), 38, 52.

[9] “Annie Taylor Hyde,” Young Woman’s Journal, Aug. 1904, 359.

[10] EBW, Diary, 5 Feb. 1902. History of Relief Society, 1842–1966 (Salt Lake City: General Board of Relief Society, 1966), 98.

[11] “Utah State Archives Indexes,” database and images, Utah State Archives (https://archives.utah.gov, accessed 19 Apr. 2018); Utah Department of Health Office of Vital Records and Statistics Death certificates, series 81448, file no. 376/300 (1909), Annie Taylor Hyde.