Eudora (Dora) Lovina Young Dunford Hagan

May 12, 1852–October 21, 1921

1 Born at Salt Lake City; daughter of Lucy Bigelow and Brigham Young. 2 Served as counselor in the first Young Ladies’ Department of the Ladies’ Cooperative Retrenchment Association, 1870. 3 Married first Moreland Dunford, 1871; two children. 4 Divorced, 1874; moved to St. George, Washington County, Utah Territory. 5 Elected president of the Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Association in the Southern Stake Fourth Ward, 1877. 6 Married second Albert Hagan; four children. 7 Filed a legal complaint against church authorities and executors of her father’s estate, charging them with defrauding heirs of their inheritance; excommunicated, 1880. 8 Died at Salt Lake City. 9 (See Document 3.18)

Footnotes

  1. [1] “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. 1564/250 (1921), Dora Mary [ sic ] Hagan. Susa Amelia Young Gates, “Lucy Bigelow Young,” typescript, 1928–1931, p. 35, CHL.
  2. [2] Utah death certificate, file no. 1564/250. Gates, “Lucy Bigelow Young,” 35.
  3. [3] “Resolutions Adopted by the First Young Ladies’ Department of the Ladies’ Co-operative Retrenchment Association, S. L. City, organized May 27, 1870,” Deseret Evening News, June 20, 1870, [2]. Susa Young Gates, History of the Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Association (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1911), 14–15.
  4. [4] “U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560–1900,” database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Jan. 2015), Eudora Lovina Young and Mareland [sic] Dunford; citing Yates Publishing, Provo, UT. Gates, Lucy Bigelow Young, 72. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Jan. 2015), Eudora Lovina Young LHV7-2ZQ and Moreland Dunford KWJG-TCR .
  5. [5] “Salt Lake County, Utah Civil and Criminal Case Files, 1852–1887,” database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Jan. 2015), Eudora L. Dunford; Utah State Archives and Records Service, Salt Lake County, Utah Civil and Criminal Case Files, 1852–1887, Provo, UT. Gates, Lucy Bigelow Young, 87.
  6. [6] Dora L. Young and Juie Ivins, letter to the editor, Woman’s Exponent 6, no. 4 (July 15 1877): 29.
  7. [7] “U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560–1900,” database, Eudora Lovina Young and Albert Hagan. “Family Tree,” database, Eudora Lovina Young and Albert Charles Hagan L7XT-P55 .
  8. [8] “Local and Other Matters: Excommunicated,” Deseret Evening News, May 3, 1880, 2.
  9. [9] Utah death certificate, file no. 1564/250.