- Annie Taylor Hyde
Anna Maria Ballantyne Taylor Hyde (
October 21 ,1847 –March 12 ,1909 ) was the founder and first president of theDaughters of Utah Pioneers and was a women's leader inThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).Anna Maria Ballantyne Taylor was born in a
Mormon pioneer wagon shortly after her parents, LDS Church Apostle John Taylor and Jane Ballantyne, had arrived in theSalt Lake Valley . Taylor was educated at theUniversity of Deseret ; in December 1870, she married Alonzo Eugene Hyde in theEndowment House inSalt Lake City .On
April 11 ,1901 , Annie Taylor Hyde invited 54 other women to join her in creatingDaughters of the Utah Pioneers , an organization that would "perpetuate the names and achievements of the men, women and children who were the pioneers in founding this commonwealth [Utah] ". Hyde was elected the first president of the organization, and she held this position until her death in Salt Lake City fromstomach cancer . [ [http://images.archives.utah.gov/data/81448/2229321/2229321_0000490.jpgState of Utah Death Certificate] ]Later in 1901, Hyde was asked by
Bathsheba W. Smith to become her first counselor in the general presidency of theRelief Society , the LDS Church organization of women. Hyde also served in this capacity until her death. As a member of the Relief Society general presidency, Hyde represented the Relief Society at meetings of theNational Council of Women .Annie Taylor Hyde and her husband were the parents of eight children. One of their daughters, Annie Laura Hyde, married
Joseph F. Merrill , who later became an apostle in the LDS Church.ee also
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Maria Young Dougall Notes
References
*"The Daughters of Utah Pioneers", in Kate B. Carter (ed.) (1939–1951). "Heart Throbs of the West" (Salt Lake City, Utah: Daughters of the Utah Pioneers), vol. 11, pp. 329–428
*Jill Mulvay Derr,Janath Russell Cannon , and Maureen Ursenbach Beecher (2002). "Women of Covenant: The Story of Relief Society" (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book)
*Richard L. Jensen, [http://www.lds.org/portal/site/LDSOrg/menuitem.b12f9d18fae655bb69095bd3e44916a0/?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=9153615b01a6b010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&hideNav=1 “The John Taylor Family,”] "Ensign", Feb. 1980, 50–51
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