Emily Augusta Young Clawson

1 March 1849 — 19 March 1926

1 Born at Salt Lake City; daughter of Emily Dow Partridge and Brigham Young. 2 Attended Brigham Young’s schoolhouse; participated in amateur dramatics at the Salt Lake Theatre. 3 Married Hiram Bradley Clawson as a plural wife, 1868; nine children. 4 Served as a counselor in the first Young Ladies’ Department of the Ladies’ Cooperative Retrenchment Association and as a counselor in the Salt Lake City Twelfth Ward Relief Society. 5 Member of the Utah State Society of the Daughters of the Revolution; served as assistant recording secretary. 6 Died at Salt Lake City. 7 (See Document 3.18)

Footnotes

  1. [1] “Utah Death Certificate Index, 1904–1961,” database and images, Utah State Archives (http://archives.utah.gov, accessed Oct. 2014); from Utah Department of Health, Office of Vital Records and Statistics, series 81448, file no. 587/425 (1926), Emily Young Clawson.

  2. [2] Utah death certificate, file no. 587/425. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org, accessed Aug. 2014), Emily Augusta Young KWZR-JM8 .

  3. [3] “Mrs. Emily Y. Clawson Funeral is Sunday,” Deseret News, Mar. 20, 1926, 3.

  4. [4] “Family Tree,” database, Emily Augusta Young. “Mrs. Emily Y. Clawson Funeral,” 3.

  5. [5] Susa Young Gates, History of the Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Association (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1911), 14–15. “R.S. Reports: Reorganizations,” Woman’s Exponent 39, no. 1 (June 1, 1910): 3.

  6. [6] “Daughters of the Revolution,” Woman’s Exponent 35, no. 1 (June 1, 1906): 5.

  7. [7] Utah death certificate, file no. 587/425.