Martha (Mattie) Jane Horne Tingey

15 October 1857 — 11 March 1938

1 Born at Salt Lake City; daughter of Mary Isabella Hales and Joseph Horne. 2 Baptized, 1866. 3 Appointed second counselor to Anstis Elmina S. Taylor in the Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Association (Y.L.M.I.A.) general presidency, 1880. 4 Married Joseph Stafford Tingey, 1884; seven children. 5 Principal speaker on Utah Day at the World’s Fair in Chicago, 1893. Served as the Y.L.M.I.A. delegate to National Council of Women triennial meetings in Washington DC, 1899, and Seattle, 1909. 6 Served as general president of the Y.L.M.I.A., 1905–1929. 7 Died at Salt Lake City. 8 (See Document 4.4)

Footnotes

  1. [1] “Utah Death Certificate Index, 1904–1961,” database and images, Utah State Archives (http://archives.utah.gov, accessed Jan. 2015); from Utah Department of Health, Office of Vital Records and Statistics, series 81448, file no. 467-A/520 (1938), Martha Jane Tingey.

  2. [2] Utah death certificate, file no. 467-A/520. Susa Young Gates, History of the Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Association (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1911), 287.

  3. [3] Historian’s Office record of members index, 1842?–1972, CHL, data card for Martha J. Horne Tingey.

  4. [4] Gates, History of the YLMIA, 287.

  5. [5] Ibid., 287–288.

  6. [6] Ibid., 288.

  7. [7] Gates, History of the YLMIA, 288–289. “Presidents of the Young Women Organization through the Years,” Ensign 38, no. 6 (June 2008): 41.

  8. [8] Utah death certificate, file no. 467-A/520. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed May 2023), Martha Jane “Mattie” Tingle KWCY-794.