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Lucy Augusta Rice

Lucy Augusta Clark

5 March 1850—13 November 1928

Emmeline B. Wells

Born 5 March 1850 in present-day Farmington, Davis County, Utah.1 Daughter of William Kelsey Rice and Lucy Witter Geer.2 Baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 24 June 1860.3 Married Timothy Baldwin Clark, 23 November 1867, in Salt Lake City; eleven children.4 Served as president of the Farmington Ward Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Association, 1873–1880.5 Served as counselor to Aurelia Spencer Rogers in the Davis Stake Primary, 1880–circa 1906.6 President of the Davis County Woman Suffrage Association; vice president of the Utah Woman Suffrage Association.7 One of three female candidates, with Emmeline B. Wells and Martha Hughes Cannon, for the Utah Senate, 1896.8 Delegate to the National Suffrage Convention in Washington, DC, February 1900.9 First woman seated at the Republican National Convention, 1908; first woman to cast a vote.10 Charter member of the Utah Woman’s Press Club.11 As a writer wrote the lyrics for several songs; one song was included in the Relief Society Song Book, 1919, and another was the official song of the Fort Douglas training camp.12 Died 13 November 1928 in Salt Lake City.13

The First Fifty Years of Relief Society

 

Born 5 March 1850 in present-day Farmington, Davis County, Utah.14 Daughter of William Kelsey Rice and Lucy Witter Geer.15 Baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 24 June 1860.16 Married Timothy Baldwin Clark, 23 November 1867, in Salt Lake City; eleven children.17 Served as president of the Farmington Ward Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Association, 1873–1880.18 Served as counselor to Aurelia Spencer Rogers in the Davis Stake Primary, 1880–circa 1906.19 President of the Davis County Woman Suffrage Association; vice president of the Utah Woman Suffrage Association.20 One of three female candidates, with Emmeline B. Wells and Martha Hughes Cannon, for the Utah Senate, 1896.21 Delegate to the National Suffrage Convention in Washington, DC, February 1900.22 First woman seated at the Republican National Convention, 1908; first woman to cast a vote.23 Charter member of the Utah Woman’s Press Club.24 As a writer wrote the lyrics for several songs; one song was included in the Relief Society Song Book, 1919, and another was the official song of the Fort Douglas training camp.25 Died 13 November 1928 in Salt Lake City.26

 

Footnotes

  2. 2 Endowment House Endowments of the Living, 1851–1884, microfilm 183405, vol. E, p. 112, 24 Mar. 1865, FSL.

  3. 3 Endowment House Endowments of the Living, 1851–1884, microfilm 183405, vol. E, p. 112, 24 Mar. 1865, FSL.

  4. 4 Endowment House Sealings of Couples, Living and by Proxy, 1851–1889, microfilm 1149515, vol. E, p. 87, 23 Nov. 1867, FSL; “Notable Utah Women,” Deseret Evening News (Salt Lake City), 15 Sept. 1900, 14.

  5. 5 Farmington Ward, Davis Stake, Manuscript History and Historical Reports, 1849–1951, “Y. L. M. I. A.,” Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City (Church History Library hereafter cited as CHL); Farmington Ward, Davis Stake, Young Women’s Mutual Improvement Association Minutes and Records, vol. 1, 31 Oct. 1873, pp. 13–14; 20 May 1880, pp. 310–311, CHL.

  6. 6 Davis Stake Primary Association Minutes and Records, vol. 1, 16 July 1880, p. 1, CHL; Charles Roscoe Savage, Portrait of Farmington Ward’s First Primary Presidency (1878), circa 1890, photograph, CHL; “Mrs. Lucy Clark Called by Death,” Davis County Clipper (Bountiful, UT), 16 Nov. 1928, [1].

  7. 7 Rachel Foster Avery, ed., Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Convention of the National-American Woman Suffrage Association, Held in Washington, D. C., January 23d to 28th, 1896 (Alfred J. Ferris, [1896]), 160; “Notable Utah Women,” 14.

  9. 9 “Notable Utah Women,” 14.

  10. 10 “Woman Delegate Comes from Utah,” Kingston (NY) Daily Freeman, 16 June 1908, 1; Frank H. Hitchcock, comp., Delegates and Alternates to the Republican National Convention, Chicago, June 16, 1908 (n.p., 1908), 44.

  11. 11 “Notable Utah Women,” 14.

  12. 12 Jill Mulvay Derr, Janath Russell Cannon, and Maureen Ursenbach Beecher, Women of Covenant: The Story of Relief Society (Deseret Book, 1992), 199; Utah Women’s Press Club Papers, 30 June 1917, CHL; “Notable Utah Women,” 14.

  13. 13 Utah, Salt Lake County, Death Records, 1849–1966, DGS 4139778, Death Records, 1928, no. Y-1764, 13 Nov. 1928, familysearch.org; “Mrs. Lucy Clark Called by Death,” [1].

  15. 15 Endowment House Endowments of the Living, 1851–1884, microfilm 183405, vol. E, p. 112, 24 Mar. 1865, FSL.

  16. 16 Endowment House Endowments of the Living, 1851–1884, microfilm 183405, vol. E, p. 112, 24 Mar. 1865, FSL.

  17. 17 Endowment House Sealings of Couples, Living and by Proxy, 1851–1889, microfilm 1149515, vol. E, p. 87, 23 Nov. 1867, FSL; “Notable Utah Women,” Deseret Evening News (Salt Lake City), 15 Sept. 1900, 14.

  18. 18 Farmington Ward, Davis Stake, Manuscript History and Historical Reports, 1849–1951, “Y. L. M. I. A.,” Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City (Church History Library hereafter cited as CHL); Farmington Ward, Davis Stake, Young Women’s Mutual Improvement Association Minutes and Records, vol. 1, 31 Oct. 1873, pp. 13–14; 20 May 1880, pp. 310–311, CHL.

  19. 19 Davis Stake Primary Association Minutes and Records, vol. 1, 16 July 1880, p. 1, CHL; Charles Roscoe Savage, Portrait of Farmington Ward’s First Primary Presidency (1878), circa 1890, photograph, CHL; “Mrs. Lucy Clark Called by Death,” Davis County Clipper (Bountiful, UT), 16 Nov. 1928, [1].

  20. 20 Rachel Foster Avery, ed., Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Convention of the National-American Woman Suffrage Association, Held in Washington, D. C., January 23d to 28th, 1896 (Alfred J. Ferris, [1896]), 160; “Notable Utah Women,” 14.

  22. 22 “Notable Utah Women,” 14.

  23. 23 “Woman Delegate Comes from Utah,” Kingston (NY) Daily Freeman, 16 June 1908, 1; Frank H. Hitchcock, comp., Delegates and Alternates to the Republican National Convention, Chicago, June 16, 1908 (n.p., 1908), 44.

  24. 24 “Notable Utah Women,” 14.

  25. 25 Jill Mulvay Derr, Janath Russell Cannon, and Maureen Ursenbach Beecher, Women of Covenant: The Story of Relief Society (Deseret Book, 1992), 199; Utah Women’s Press Club Papers, 30 June 1917, CHL; “Notable Utah Women,” 14.

  26. 26 Utah, Salt Lake County, Death Records, 1849–1966, DGS 4139778, Death Records, 1928, no. Y-1764, 13 Nov. 1928, familysearch.org; “Mrs. Lucy Clark Called by Death,” [1].