LDS Women's History

On her 37 th birthday, Martha Knight joined Philinda Merrick, a woman who had already or would soon become her sister wife, at the foun...

After joining the church, Desdemona Fullmer fled persecution after persecution. She arrived in Kirtland during a period when many were a...

At the first Relief Society meeting, Elvira Cowles was nominated as the treasurer for the society. Elvira was diligent in her work. The ...

Sophia Bundy Packard and her husband, Noah, were introduced to the church by their neighbors, the Jolly family. They had originally piti...

When Joseph Smith called for suggestions on the name for the women’s organization of the church, Sarah M Cleveland, newly ordained to se...

Philinda Merrick had known tragedy by the time she joined that first Relief Society meeting. Driven from her home in Missouri in 1838, her...

175 years ago, twenty women sat together in the upper room of a red brick store. They were organized under the pattern of the priesthood, an...