Photos of Grandma Lucy, taken during the twenty years that she was mistress of Brigham Young’s Beehive House in what they then called Great Salt Lake City.
Lucy’s daughter Clarissa described her mother’s daily role in those days. Lucy boarded the men who worked on the estate, as well as caring for her own seven children. Each day she prepared and served several meals: breakfast for the men at seven, the family at eight, Brigham at ten (he ate but two meals a day, breakfast at ten and dinner at four), a noon meal for the men, a noon meal for the family, and two evening meals - unless there were guests, which happened frequently, and refreshments were required. Once when her daughter asked her how she handled all that was required of her, she replied, “If your father wasn't the most wonderful man in the world, I couldn’t do it.” Clarissa added, ‘She adored Father, but there wasn’t a jealous hair in her head. Some of the other wives undoubtedly were jealous at times, but Mother never was. She had previously made a most unhappy marriage, and the contrast between that and her later happiness was so great that she appreciated it to the fullest extent.’
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