People
The names of more than two thousand individuals appear in the documents published in The First Fifty Years of Relief Society: Key Documents in Latter-day Saint Women’s History. Brief biographical entries for almost all of these people are available below. For information on certain style rules used in preparing these entries, see Biographical Directory Editorial Conventions.
An index that identifies the location(s) where each individual is mentioned in the printed volume can be found here. Though this index does not contain hyperlinks to the documents on this website, it may serve as a useful guide to locating individuals on this site. Another way to find individuals is by using the website search function. Those doing extensive research may wish to use the print edition of The First Fifty Years of Relief Society.
- Wadsworth Snow, Matilda Wells Streeper
- Waite Luckey, Sarah Ann Hodges
- Wakefield Davis Runyan, Susannah Garlick
- Walker Barkman, Elizabeth
- Walker Fuller Rogers, Catherine
- Walker Young, Nancy Cressy
- Walker, Elizabeth
- Walker, Elizabeth Ann Brown
- Walker, Emma Smith
- Walker, Mary Ann Harris Cox
- Wall Harris, Mary
- Wall, Mary
- Wallace Roundy, Susannah
- Wallwork Scovil, Alice Hurst
- Walton, Charles Eugene, Sr.
- Walton, Jane McKechnie
- Wamsley Palmer, Ann E. Hodgkinson
- Ward, Martha Monks
- Ward, Silence (Sally) M. Stone
- Warner Castle, Mary Jane Sloan
- Warner, Rebecca Delight Billington Mason Maloy
- Warnuth, Eunice
- Warrick, Thomas
- Washburn, Tamer Washburn
- Watt Saladen, Jane Brown
- Watt, Alice Longstroth Whitaker
- Watt, George Darling
- Webb McRae, Caroline Amelia Owens
- Webb, Elizabeth Lydia Taft
- Webb, Hannah Griswold
- Weeks, Caroline Matilda Allen
- Weeks, Sarah Jane Bennett
- Welker, Elizabeth Stoker
- Wellfery, Sarah
- Wells Cannon, Louise (Louie) Martha
- Wells, Daniel Hanmer
- Wells, Emmeline Blanche Woodward Harris Whitney
- Wells, Martha Givens Harris
- West, Adeline Louisa Follett
- West, Chauncey Walker
- West, Margaret Cooper
- West, Mary Ann Covington Stratton
- West, Mary Hoagland
- Weston, Cynthia Porter
- Whaley, Abigail Wilson
- Wheeler Olney Hatch, Phebe Mariette
- Whitaker, Elizabeth Comish
- Whitaker, John Mills
- White Bingham Lapenteur, Rebecca
- White, Ann
- White, Ann Chapman
- White, Ann Creswick Woodhouse
- White, Ann Grove Creswick
- White, Elisebeth
- White, Eliza Brestler
- White, Elizabeth
- White, Francis Ann Thomas
- White, Rebecca Smith
- Whiteside, Electa Eleanor Sherman
- Whiteside, Elizabeth
- Whitesides Forgeus, Elizabeth
- Whitesides Hopkins, Elizabeth Kirkpatrick
- Whitlock, Andrew Hyrum
- Whitlock, Hannah Caroline Allred
- Whitmarsh Chesley, Emily Haws
- Whitney Smith Kingsbury Kimball, Sarah Ann
- Whitney, Elizabeth Ann Smith
- Whitney, Helen Mar Kimball
- Whitney, Newel Kimball
- Whitney, Orson Ferguson
- Whittaker, Rachel Taylor
- Whittle, Mary Amelia Fullmer
- Wigglesworth, Ann
- Wight Miller, Rosina Minerva
- Wight Smith, Anna Christina
- Wight, Harriet Benton
- Wight, Rebecca
- Wightman, Dolly Eaton
- Wilber Magovern, Sophia F. Emerson
- Wilber Stringham, Eliza Jane
- Wilbur, Eunice Dennis
- Wilcox Durfee Hollenbeck Bonds, Sarah Ann
- Wilcox, Clarissa Redfield
- Wilcox, Margaret Belinda Allen
- Wilcox, Martha Bolton Parker
- Wilcox, Mary McOmber
- Wilcox, Samuel Allen
- Wild, Sarah (Sally) Colburn
- Wilding, Alice Atkinson
- Wilkey, Ann Gregory
- Wilkie (Wilkin), Isabella McNair
- Wilkie, Catharine Paine Katen
- Wilkins, George Washington
- Wilkinson, Margaret
- Wilkinson, Susan Hough Conrad
- Willard, Frances Elizabeth Caroline
- Willcox, Brother
- Willden, Eleanor Turner
- Willden, Emma Jane Clews
- Willes, Ann Kibbey
- Williams Pugh, Mary Ann Rock
- Williams, Electa Caroline Briggs Hemenway
- Williams, Hannah Mariah Andrews
- Williams, Isabella Gill
- Williams, Mary McCumber
- Williams, Mrs.
- Williams, Rebecca Swain
- Williams, Ruth Bishop
- Williams, Sterling
- Williams, Thomas
- Williams, Zilpha Baker Cilley
- Williams, Zina Presendia Young
- Willie, James Grey
- Willis, Frances Long Reeves
- Willis, Margaret
- Willis, Margaret Cherry
- Willis, Margaret Jane Willis
- Willis, Mary Pengelly Harper
- Willis, Sarah Melissa Dodge
- Willis, Sister
- Wilsey, Mary
- Wilson Brown, Lovina
- Wilson Leavitt, Amanda
- Wilson, Agnes Hunter
- Wilson, Catharina
- Wilson, Catharine Davies
- Wilson, Catherine Iona Anderson
- Wilson, Elizabeth
- Wilson, Elizabeth Boardman Smith
- Wilson, Elizabeth Kinney
- Wilson, Emily
- Wilson, Lucy Benson
- Wilson, Martha Kelley Lynch
- Wilson, Mary
- Wilson, Mary Clark
- Wilson, Mary Elizabeth Hunter
- Wilson, Mary Sheehan
- Wilson, Nancy Ann Waggoner
- Wilson, Rebecca Catherine Sidwell
- Winchester Smith Kimball Arnold, Nancy Mariah (Mary)
- Winchester, Nancy
- Winchester, Nancy Case
- Winder, Ellen Walters
- Winegar Stidham, Susan Ann
- Winegar, Lodema Blanchard
- Winegar, Mary Judd
- Winn, Christiana Finch
- Winter, Sarah Elizabeth Spurgin
- Winterbottom, Mary Shaw
- Withnell, Elizabeth Purvis
- Wixom, Artimesia Rich
- Wixom, Sarah Avery
- Wonnacott, Eliza Beavis
- Wonnacott, William
- Wood Brown Sprague LeBaron Lewis, Sarah Steadwell
- Wood Oaks, Sarah Ann
- Wood, Catherine Crites
- Wood, Christann Duel
- Wood, Esther Ursula Eggleston
- Wood, Josephine Catherine Chatterly
- Wood, Mary
- Wood, Mary Elizabeth Snyder
- Wood, Mary Merrill
- Woodbury, Catherine Rebecca Haskell
- Woodmansee, Emily Hill Mills
- Woodruff Scholes, Susan Cornelia
- Woodruff Snow, Phoebe Amelia
- Woodruff, Emma Smith
- Woodruff, Phebe (Phoebe) Whittemore Carter
- Woodruff, Sarah
- Woodruff, Sarah Brown
- Woodruff, Sarah Delight Stocking
- Woodruff, Wilford
- Woodward, Maria Jane Johnston Johnson
- Woodworth, Phebe Watrous
- Woolley, Edwin Dilworth
- Woolley, Mary Stretton Blood
- Woolley, Mary Wickersham
- Woolsey Lee, Abigail Shaffer
- Woolsey, Mary (Polly) Burrell
- Workman, Jacob Lindsay
- Workman, Martha T. Witcher
- Works, Abigail Jerusha Marks
- Worley, Elizabeth Agnes Henderson
- Wormouth, Eunice
- Worthington, Mrs.
- Worthington, Rachel Staley
- Worton, Emily
- Wright, Sarah Jane Chappell
- Wright, Sarah Mee
- Wright, Sister