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| Vilate Clarissa Decker Young |
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Vilate Clarissa Decker Young, Harriet’s third daughter and therefore our great-great-aunt, became Brigham Young’s third wife in plural marriage (fifth overall) before her sixteenth birthday.
She is reported to have argued that she had to come with the Pioneers “to take care of Mama.” It is not recorded that Brigham objected with any energy. Clarissa (she went by “Clara” most of her life) was, by most accounts, in the carriage with Brigham when he said, “This is the right place…” As a toddler, she survived a horrific accident in Freedom, Cattaraugus County, New York, her birthplace. |
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| Here’s her most widely published portrait. |
| Our blood relatives on the Monument: Harriet Page Wheeler Decker Young Clarissa Decker Young Isaac Perry Decker |
And three men who married our kin: Brigham Young Lorenzo Dow Young Orrin Porter Rockwell |
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