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In his journal for 24 September 1888, Lorenzo Dow Young referred to Persis Goodall Young lovingly as “the wife of my youth,” who “bore me ten children.” The last of whom, Lorenzo Sobieski Young, appears on the Monument as the younger of the pioneer children.
An editorial footnote* to Dow’s Biography comments that “… On March 9, 1843, Harriet Page Wheeler Decker, wife of Isaac Decker, was married to Lorenzo as a plural wife. Presumably an amicable separation had been arranged between Harriet and her first husband, though the record is blank. As for Persis…about all that can be said is that she gradually fades from the picture. There is no further mention of her in the biography, but in the journal she is mentioned twice. Persis subsequently became the wife of Dr. Levi Richards, and came to Utah in Bishop Edward Hunter’s Company, Sept. 29, 1850, with her daughter Harriet. |
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She died Sept. 16, 1894 in Salt Lake City, age 83.”
*Utah Historical Quarterly, xiv:72 (1946). |
| 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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