Daughter of Nathum Bigelow and Mary Gibbs
Married - Brigham Young, 20 Mar 1847, Nahum Bigelow Home, Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska
Children - Rhoda Mabel Young, Susan (Susa) Amelia Young, Eudora Lovina Young
Biography - Her parents joined the Church in April 1838 , while she was but a child of 8 years. She was baptized and moved with her family to Hancock County, Illinois, where she passed through the mobbings, and hardships in common with the rest of the members of the Church. As a faithful member of the Church she attended the dedication of the Nauvoo Temple. The family left Nauvoo at the time of the general exodus of the people. When about seventeen years of age she was married to President Brigham Young in March, 1847, and arrived in the Valley with members of the family in September, 1848.
Lucy moved into the Lion House in 1855, before it was finished and remained there until President Young moved her and her family to St. George. Lucy Bigelow Young, lived from 1870-1891 in a house purchased for her by him.
Lucy was a major figure in the dedication and opening of the St. George and Manti Temples of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A daughter and grandchildren received wide acclaim: Susa Young Gates, a close associate of Susan B. Anthony and women's rights; and, Emma Lucy Gates Bowen, a world renown opera singer, Leah D. Widtsoe, author and nutritionist; B. Cecil Gates, composer.
Married - Brigham Young, 20 Mar 1847, Nahum Bigelow Home, Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska
Children - Rhoda Mabel Young, Susan (Susa) Amelia Young, Eudora Lovina Young
Biography - Her parents joined the Church in April 1838 , while she was but a child of 8 years. She was baptized and moved with her family to Hancock County, Illinois, where she passed through the mobbings, and hardships in common with the rest of the members of the Church. As a faithful member of the Church she attended the dedication of the Nauvoo Temple. The family left Nauvoo at the time of the general exodus of the people. When about seventeen years of age she was married to President Brigham Young in March, 1847, and arrived in the Valley with members of the family in September, 1848.
Lucy moved into the Lion House in 1855, before it was finished and remained there until President Young moved her and her family to St. George. Lucy Bigelow Young, lived from 1870-1891 in a house purchased for her by him.
Lucy was a major figure in the dedication and opening of the St. George and Manti Temples of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A daughter and grandchildren received wide acclaim: Susa Young Gates, a close associate of Susan B. Anthony and women's rights; and, Emma Lucy Gates Bowen, a world renown opera singer, Leah D. Widtsoe, author and nutritionist; B. Cecil Gates, composer.
Daughter of Nathum Bigelow and Mary Gibbs
Married - Brigham Young, 20 Mar 1847, Nahum Bigelow Home, Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska
Children - Rhoda Mabel Young, Susan (Susa) Amelia Young, Eudora Lovina Young
Biography - Her parents joined the Church in April 1838 , while she was but a child of 8 years. She was baptized and moved with her family to Hancock County, Illinois, where she passed through the mobbings, and hardships in common with the rest of the members of the Church. As a faithful member of the Church she attended the dedication of the Nauvoo Temple. The family left Nauvoo at the time of the general exodus of the people. When about seventeen years of age she was married to President Brigham Young in March, 1847, and arrived in the Valley with members of the family in September, 1848.
Lucy moved into the Lion House in 1855, before it was finished and remained there until President Young moved her and her family to St. George. Lucy Bigelow Young, lived from 1870-1891 in a house purchased for her by him.
Lucy was a major figure in the dedication and opening of the St. George and Manti Temples of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A daughter and grandchildren received wide acclaim: Susa Young Gates, a close associate of Susan B. Anthony and women's rights; and, Emma Lucy Gates Bowen, a world renown opera singer, Leah D. Widtsoe, author and nutritionist; B. Cecil Gates, composer.
Married - Brigham Young, 20 Mar 1847, Nahum Bigelow Home, Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska
Children - Rhoda Mabel Young, Susan (Susa) Amelia Young, Eudora Lovina Young
Biography - Her parents joined the Church in April 1838 , while she was but a child of 8 years. She was baptized and moved with her family to Hancock County, Illinois, where she passed through the mobbings, and hardships in common with the rest of the members of the Church. As a faithful member of the Church she attended the dedication of the Nauvoo Temple. The family left Nauvoo at the time of the general exodus of the people. When about seventeen years of age she was married to President Brigham Young in March, 1847, and arrived in the Valley with members of the family in September, 1848.
Lucy moved into the Lion House in 1855, before it was finished and remained there until President Young moved her and her family to St. George. Lucy Bigelow Young, lived from 1870-1891 in a house purchased for her by him.
Lucy was a major figure in the dedication and opening of the St. George and Manti Temples of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A daughter and grandchildren received wide acclaim: Susa Young Gates, a close associate of Susan B. Anthony and women's rights; and, Emma Lucy Gates Bowen, a world renown opera singer, Leah D. Widtsoe, author and nutritionist; B. Cecil Gates, composer.
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