The names of more than two thousand individuals appear in the documents published in&nbsp;The First Fifty Years of Relief Society: Key Documents in Latter-day Saint Women&rsquo;s History.&nbsp;Brief biographical entries for almost all of these people are available below. For information on certain style rules used in preparing these entries, see <a href="https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/bc/content/PDF/Biographical-Directory-Editorial-Conventions.pdf">Biographical Directory Editorial Conventions</a>. 
 
An <a href="https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chpress/bc/PDF/First-Fifty-Years-Relief-Society-Index.pdf">index</a> that identifies the location(s) where each individual is mentioned in the printed volume <a href="https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chpress/bc/PDF/First-Fifty-Years-Relief-Society-Index.pdf">can be found here</a>. 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.

Journals of Early Sister Missionaries

The Prison Journal of Belle Harris

The Discourses of Eliza R. Snow

The Diaries of Emmeline B. Wells

The Journal of George F. Richards

At the Pulpit

The First Fifty Years of Relief Society

The Journal of George Q. Cannon

The Joseph Smith Papers

The First Fifty Years of Relief Society – People

People

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Related People

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<a href="#inline-1">[1]</a> “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed May 2023), Mary Smith <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L21Y-PGN">L21Y-PGN</a>. Rod Morris, “James Abraham Newberry,” The Morris Clan (accessed July 2013). James C. Taylor and Donna Taylor, Nauvoo Deaths and Burials: Old Nauvoo Burial Ground (Nauvoo, IL: Nauvoo Restoration, 1989), 22.

Mary Smith Newberry

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