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Anstis Elmina Shepard Taylor

September 12, 1830–December 6, 1904

1 Born at Middlefield, Otsego County, New York; daughter of Rozita Bailey and Daniel Shepard. 2 Baptized, 1856. 3 Married George Hamilton Taylor, 1856; seven children. 4 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1859. 5 Settled in the Salt Lake City Fourteenth Ward. 6 Appointed secretary of the Fourteenth Ward Relief Society, 1867; superintendent of the Fourteenth Ward Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Association (Y.L.M.I.A.), 1874; and counselor to Mary Isabella Horne in the Salt Lake Stake Relief Society presidency, 1877. 7 Served as the general president of the Y.L.M.I.A., 1880–1904. 8 Became an ex officio vice president of the National Council of Women in connection with the Y.L.M.I.A., 1891. 9 Died at Salt Lake City. 10 (See Document 3.29, 4.3, 4.28)

Footnotes

  1. [1] Elmina S. Taylor papers, 1851–1897, fol. 11, manuscript, n.d., n.p., CHL. Augusta B. Joyce Crocheron, Representative Women of Deseret, A Book of Biographical Sketches to Accompany the Picture Bearing the Same Title (Salt Lake City: J. C. Graham and Co., 1884), 48–50. “Utah Death Certificate Index, 1904–1961,” database and images, Utah State Archives (http://archives.utah.gov, accessed Jan. 2015); from Utah Department of Health, Office of Vital Records and Statistics, series 81448, file no. 1348/460 (1904), Almina [sic] S. Taylor.

  2. [2] Taylor papers, fol. 11, n.p. Crocheron, Representative Women of Deseret, 48. Utah death certificate, file no. 1348/460.

  3. [3] Taylor papers, fol. 11, n.p. Crocheron, Representative Women of Deseret, 48–49.

  4. [4] Taylor papers, fol. 11, n.p. Crocheron, Representative Women of Deseret, 49. Almira Mae Taylor Nystrom, Biographical sketch of Elmina S. Taylor, n.d., [3], CHL.

  5. [5] Crocheron, Representative Women of Deseret, 49. “Anstis Elmina Shepard Taylor,” Church History Biographical Database, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, available at https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/landing, accessed Jan. 2015.

  6. [6] Crocheron, Representative Women of Deseret, 49. 1860 U.S. census, Great Salt Lake City Ward 14, Great Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 199, A. E. Taylor; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Jan. 2015); from NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1313.

  7. [7] Crocheron, Representative Women of Deseret, 49–50. “Young Ladies’ President Dead: Mrs. Elmina S. Taylor, a Devoted Church Worker, is Called Home,” Deseret Evening News, Dec. 6, 1904, 1. Susa Young Gates, History of the Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Association (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1911), 93.

  8. [8] Crocheron, Representative Women of Deseret, 48–50. “Young Ladies’ President Dead,” 1. Gates, History of the YLMIA, 93.

  9. [9] Gates, History of the YLMIA, 93.

  10. [10] Utah death certificate, file no. 1348/460. “Young Ladies’ President Dead,” 1. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed Jan. 7, 2016), Austis Elmina Shepard KWVM-FKK.