Born 3 Jan. 1830 at Mentor, Geauga Co., Ohio.[1] Daughter of Titus Billings and Diantha Morley.[2] Moved to Nauvoo, Hancock Co., Illinois, 1841.[3] Attended the second meeting of the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo with her mother, 24 Mar. 1842.[4] Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley with the Heber C. Kimball pioneer company, arriving 24 Sept. 1848.[5] Married first John E. Warner, 4 Apr. 1849, at what became Bountiful, Davis Co., Utah; four children.[6] Appointed to help settle what became Manti, Sanpete Co., Utah, Oct. 1849.[7] Husband killed in the Black Hawk War, 4 Oct. 1853.[8] Married second George W. Snow, 27 Mar. 1857; four children.[9] Moved to Provo, Utah Co., Utah Territory, summer 1865.[10] Worked as a midwife, delivering thousands of babies.[11] EBW visited her in Provo, 19 Oct. 1874, and in Manti, 11 Sept. 1898.[12] Visited with EBW in Salt Lake City and reminisced with Orson Kimball Whitney about their experiences in the early Church, 10–12 Feb. 1875.[13] Active in temple and family history work.[14] Visited with EBW in Salt Lake City, 10 Apr. 1908, 2 Aug. 1910.[15] Memoirs published in the Woman’s Exponent, 1910, 1912.[16] Died 25 Nov. 1914 in Provo.[17]
[1] “Endowments of the Living, 1845–1846,” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Nauvoo Temple, Washings and Anointings, p. 48, line 538, Eunice Billings, 3 Jan. 1846, microfilm 183372 (restricted access), FHL. Temple Records Index Bureau, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register, 10 December 1845 to 8 February 1846 (Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1974), 94 (restricted access). “A Sketch of the Life of Eunice Billings Snow,” Woman’s Exponent, Aug. 1910, 13. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 13 Mar. 2020), Eunice Billings (KWJG-HQ7).
[2] “A Sketch of the Life of Eunice Billings Snow,” Woman’s Exponent, Aug. 1910, 13.
[3] “A Sketch of the Life of Eunice Billings Snow,” Woman’s Exponent, Aug. 1910, 14.
[4] Jill Mulvay Derr, Carol Cornwall Madsen, Kate Holbrook, and Matthew J. Grow, eds., The First Fifty Years of Relief Society: Key Documents in Latter-day Saint Women’s History (Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2016), 37. “A Sketch of the Life of Eunice Billings Snow,” Woman’s Exponent, Sept. 1910, 22.
[5] “Eunice Billings,” Pioneer Database (https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/overlandtravel/, accessed 13 Mar. 2020). Camp of Israel Schedules and Reports, 1845–1849, Heber C. Kimball’s 1848 Emigration Division, First 100, Schedules, July 1848, MS 14290, image 1/12, CHL.
[6] “A Sketch of the Life of Eunice Billings Snow,” Woman’s Exponent, Sept. 1910, 22–23. “Sketches from the Life of Eunice Billings Snow,” Woman’s Exponent, Midwinter 1912, 48. Katherine Thatcher Bimhall, The Testifiers of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Tough Ole’ Birds in their Twilight Years (Privately Published, 2011), 88. 1900 U.S. Census, Provo, Utah Co., UT, ED 164, p. 36, Eunice B. Snow.
[7] “A Sketch of the Life of Eunice Billings Snow,” Woman’s Exponent, Sept. 1910, p. 22. 1850 U.S. Census, Sanpete Co., Utah Territory, pp. 6, 115, Eunice Warner.
[8] “Indian Difficulties,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 15 Oct. 1853, 2. “Chronological Calender,” Deseret Evening News (Salt Lake City), 29 Sept. 1883, 5.
[9] “Sealings of Couples, Living and by Proxy, 1851–1889,” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Endowment House, vol. C, 19 Jan. 1856–22 Nov. 1861, pp. 134–135, line 858, George Snow and Eunice Billings, 27 Mar. 1857, microfilm 1149514, DGS 7226455 (restricted access), FHL. “A Sketch of the Life of Eunice Billings Snow,” Woman’s Exponent, Sept. 1910, 22–23. Katherine Thatcher Bimhall, The Testifiers of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Tough Ole’ Birds in their Twilight Years (Privately Published, 2011), 97. 1900 U.S. Census, Provo, Utah Co., UT, ED 164, p. 36, Eunice B. Snow.
[10] Katherine Thatcher Bimhall, The Testifiers of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Tough Ole’ Birds in their Twilight Years (Privately Published, 2011), 97. 1870 U.S. Census, Provo, Third Ward, Utah Co., Utah Territory, p. 11, Unis Warner.
[11] Katherine Thatcher Bimhall, The Testifiers of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Tough Ole’ Birds in their Twilight Years (Privately Published, 2011), 81. “New Doctors,” Daily Tribune (Salt Lake City), 17 July 1894, 5.
[12] EBW, Diary, 19 Oct. 1874 and 11 Sept. 1898.
[13] EBW, Diary, 10 and 12 Feb. 1875.
[14] “Genealogy,” Deseret Evening News (Salt Lake City), 23 Feb. 1907, 25.
[15] EBW, Diary, 10 Apr. 1908 and 2 Aug. 1910.
[16] “A Sketch of the Life of Eunice Billings Snow,” Woman’s Exponent, Aug. 1910, 13–14; Sept. 1910, 22–23. “Sketches from the Life of Eunice Billings Snow,” Woman’s Exponent, Midwinter 1912, 48.
[17] “Utah State Archives Indexes,” database and images, Utah State Archives (https://archives.utah.gov, accessed 19 Mar. 2020); Utah Department of Health Office of Vital Records and Statistics Death Certificates, series 81448, file no. 382/500 (1914), Eunice B. Snow.