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Margaret (Maggie) Young Taylor

April 24, 1837–May 3, 1919

1 Born at Westport, Fairfield County, Connecticut; daughter of Margaret Holden and Ebenezer Russell Young. 2 Baptized in New Jersey, 1852. 3 Married John Taylor as a plural wife, 1856; nine children. 4 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1858. 5 Lived in the Salt Lake City Fourteenth Ward; served as secretary and counselor in the Fourteenth Ward Relief Society presidency. 6 Served as secretary of the Salt Lake Stake Relief Society. 7 Served as counselor to Anstis Elmina S. Taylor in the Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Association general presidency, 1880–1887. 8 Died at Salt Lake City. 9 (See Document 4.4)

Footnotes

  1. [1] “Utah Death Certificate Index, 1904–1961,” database and images, Utah State Archives (http://archives.utah.gov, accessed Dec. 2014); from Utah Department of Health, Office of Vital Records and Statistics, series 81448, file no. 934/460 (1919), Margaret Young Taylor. Susa Young Gates, History of the Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Association (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1911), 94.

  2. [2] Utah death certificate, file no. 934/460. Mary Gibbs Merrill, “Margaret Young Taylor,” [196-?], typescript, p. 1, CHL. “Margaret Young Taylor Dies at Advanced Age,” Deseret Evening News, May 3, 1919, sec. 2, 1.

  3. [3] “Margaret Young Taylor Dies at Advanced Age,” 2:1. Merrill, “Margaret Young Taylor,” 1.

  4. [4] Merrill, “Margaret Young Taylor,” 1–2.

  5. [5] “Margaret Young,” 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] Merrill, “Margaret Young Taylor,” 1–2. Gates, History of the YLMIA, 94.

  7. [7] Gates, History of the YLMIA, 94.

  8. [8] “Salt Lake Stake Relief Society Conference,” Woman’s Exponent 9, no. 3 (July 1, 1880): 21–22. Gates, History of the YLMIA, 94–95. Merrill, “Margaret Young Taylor,” 2.

  9. [9] Utah death certificate, file no. 934/460. “Margaret Young Taylor Dies at Advanced Age,” 2:1. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed Jan. 7, 2016), Margaret Young KWJC-2GZ.