Emily H. Woodmansee
Emily Hill Woodmansee (March 24, 1836 – October 18, 1906)
Early life
Emily Hill was born at Warminster, Wiltshire, England[2] and was introduced to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) when she was twelve. Among those who she would walk to church with at this point was Edward Tullidge.[3] Her family initially opposed her joining the church but through the efforts of John Halliday they were reconciled with the notion enough for her to be baptized.[4]
In 1856 Emily and her sister Julia sailed for the United States
Marriage and children
In 1857, Emily married Dr. William G. Mills. He later left on a mission to England. After returning to the United States with money he had raised from church members in England, he denounced the church and abandoned his families; Emily never saw him again.[7]
In 1864, she married Joseph Woodmansee.[8] They had eight children together[7] and one adopted daughter Allie Bray whom they raised to marriage[clarification needed] in 1870.[9]
Pursuits
Woodmansee wrote a "Hand-cart Song" that captured the cheerful mood of the Saints as they started westward.
She served as the treasurer for the Women's Cooperative Store and was involved in the Women's Suffrage Movement. Woodmansee was involved in the real estate business in
Legacy
- The 1927 LDS Church hymnbook contained eight of Woodmansee's hymns. One of these was "O the Daughters of Zion, The Friends of the Poor".[13]
- One of her poems was featured in the 1941 Relief Society Centennial Anthology of Verse by Latter-day Saint women.[3]
- The 1948 hymnal had two hymns by Woodmansee, "Up! Arouse Thee, O Beautiful Zion" (with music by Leroy J. Robertson) and "When Dark and Drear the Skies Appear".[14] "As Sisters in Zion" (with music by Janice Kapp Perry) was for the first time published as a hymn in 1985.[15]
- A compilation of Woodmansee's poetry was published in 1986.[16]
- In 2004, some of her poems were republished in Discoveries: Two Centuries of Poems by Mormon Women published by the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History at Brigham Young University.[17]
See also
- English women hymnwriters (18th to 19th-century)
References
- State of Utah. October 23, 1906. Retrieved 2009-12-09.
- ^ Cornwall, J. Spencer Stories of Our Latter-day Saint Hymns (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1975) p. 276
- ^ a b c "Mormon Literature Database - Woodmansee, Emily Hill".
- ^ a b Cornwall. Stories of Our Mormon Hymns p. 177
- ^ "Representative Women of Deseret—Emily Hill Woodmansee". Archived from the original on 2011-07-27.
- ^ "General Relief Society Meeting".
- ^ a b c d "Maria Louisa Pickett".
- ^ Cornwall. Stories of Our Mormon Hymns. p. 277
- ^ U.S. Government. U.S. 1860 Census. Great Salt Lake City, Utah, page 23
- ^ Black, Susan Easton. "The Struggle To Survive: Handcart Pioneers" in Pioneer Vol 53, no. 3 (2006) p. 6
- ^ "Pioneer Details". Archived from the original on 2011-06-07.
- ^ "Mormon Women Protest.doc" (PDF).
- ^ Times & Seasons » Wells run dry
- ^ Cornwall. Stories of Our Mormon Hymns. p. 282
- ^ Robinson, Doug (2018-10-05). "Beloved church songwriter Janice Kapp Perry weighs in on the new hymn book". DeseretNews.com. Retrieved 2018-11-15.
- ^ "LDS Church History". Archived from the original on 2011-06-07.
- ^ Mormon Literature Database – Let Us Have Peace
External links
- Emily Hill Woodmansee at the MLCA Database
- Emily H. Woodmansee papers, MSS 2003, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University
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