Phebe Louisa Young

Phebe Louisa Beatie, Phoebe

1 August 1854—22 August 1931

Born 1 August 1854 in Salt Lake City.1 Daughter of Brigham Young and Clarissa Ross.2 Baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1 August 1862.3 Founding member and counselor in the Young Ladies’ Department of the Ladies’ Cooperative Retrenchment Association, 1870.4 Married Walter Josiah Beatie, 7 January 1872, in Salt Lake City; seven children.5 Traveled with Emmeline B. Wells to Washington, DC, 16–19 February 1891, to attend the convention of the National Council of Women of the United States.6 Served as the executive committee chair of the Utah Woman Suffrage Association, beginning 3 October 1891.7 Served on the Relief Society general board, 1901–1921.8 Served as first vice-regent of the Utah State Society Daughters of the Revolution, 1903–1904; regent, 1904–1905.9 Delegate to the executive session of the National Council of Women of the United States held in Indianapolis, February 1904.10 Died 22 August 1931 in Salt Lake City.11

Footnotes

1 Phebe Young Beatie entry, Seventeenth Ward, Salt Lake Stake, 1902–1909, no. 10, in Seventeenth Ward, part 2, Record of Members Collection, 1836–1970, Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City (Church History Library hereafter CHL).
2 Phebe Young Beatie entry, Seventeenth Ward, Salt Lake Stake, 1902–1909, no. 10, in Seventeenth Ward, part 2, Record of Members Collection, CHL; William Ogden Wheeler, comp., The Ogden Family in America, Elizabethtown Branch, and Their English Ancestry: John Ogden, the Pilgrim, and His Descendants, 1640–1906, Their History, Biography and Genealogy (J. B. Lippincott, 1907), 281.
3 Phebe Young Beatie entry, Seventeenth Ward, Salt Lake Stake, 1902–1909, no. 10, in Seventeenth Ward, part 2, Record of Members Collection, CHL.
4 “Young Ladies’ Department of the Ladies’ Cooperative Retrenchment Association, Resolutions, May 27, 1870,” in Jill Mulvay Derr, Carol Cornwall Madsen, Kate Holbrook, and Matthew J. Grow, eds., The First Fifty Years of Relief Society: Key Documents in Latter-day Saint Women’s History (Church Historian’s Press, 2016), 353–357.
5 Endowment House Sealings of Couples, Living and by Proxy, 1851–1889, microfilm 183398, vol. H, p. 78, 7 Jan. 1872, FamilySearch Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City; 1900 U.S. Census, Salt Lake City 3rd Precinct, Salt Lake Co., UT, enumeration dist. 29, p. 29B; “Beatie, Walter Josiah,” in Andrew Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, vol. 1 (Deseret News, 1901), 649.
6 Emmeline B. Wells, Diary, 16–19 and 23 Feb. 1891, Diaries of Emmeline B. Wells, Church Historian’s Press, churchhistorianspress.org/emmeline-b-wells; “A Glimpse of Washington,” Woman’s Exponent (Salt Lake City), 1 Mar. 1891, 132.
7 “Utah W. S. A.,” Woman’s Exponent, 15 Oct. 1891, 62.
8 History of Relief Society, 1842–1966 (General Board of Relief Society, 1966), 52.
9 “Annual Meeting D. R.,” Woman’s Exponent, Aug. 1904, 18.
10 “Executive Session of the National Council of Women,” Young Woman’s Journal, Mar. 1904, 134.
11 “Beatie, Phebe Young,” 22 Aug. 1931, file no. 1339, in Utah State Archives Name Indexes, Utah Department of Health, Office of Vital Records and Statistics Death Certificates, 1904–present, series 81448, Utah Division of Archives and Records Service, archives.utah.gov.