Anna Maria Ballantyne "Annie" Taylor Hyde (October 21, 1849 – March 12, 1909) was the founder and first president of the

Daughters of Utah Pioneers The International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers (ISDUP, DUP) is a women's organization dedicated to preserving the history of the original settlers of the geographic area covered by the State of Deseret and Utah Territory, including Mormon pio ...

and was a women's leader in

the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is a Nontrinitarianism, nontrinitarian Christianity, Christian church that considers itself to be the Restorationism, restoration of the ...

(LDS Church). Anna Maria Ballantyne Taylor was born in a

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wagon shortly after her parents, LDS Church apostle John Taylor and Jane Ballantyne, had arrived in the

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. Taylor's mother, Jane Ballantyne Taylor, was a sister of

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, the founder of the LDS

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. Taylor was educated at the

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. In December 1870, she married Alonzo Eugene Hyde, a son of

Orson Hyde Orson Hyde (January 8, 1805 – November 28, 1878) was a leader in the early Latter Day Saint movement and a member of the first Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. He was the President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus ...

, in the

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. On April 11, 1901, she invited 54 other women to join her in creating

Daughters of the Utah Pioneers The International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers (ISDUP, DUP) is a women's organization dedicated to preserving the history of the original settlers of the geographic area covered by the State of Deseret and Utah Territory, including Mormon pio ...

, an organization that would "perpetuate the names and achievements of the men, women and children who were the pioneers in founding this commonwealth tah. Hyde was elected the first president of the organization, and she held this position until her death. Later in 1901, Hyde was asked by

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to become her first counselor in the general presidency of the

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, the LDS Church organization of women. Hyde also served in this capacity until her death. As a member of the Relief Society general presidency, Hyde represented the Relief Society at meetings of the National Council of Women. Annie Taylor Hyde and her husband were the parents of eight children. One of their daughters, Annie Laura Hyde, married

Joseph F. Merrill Joseph Francis Merrill (August 24, 1868 – February 3, 1952) was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1931 until his death. Merrill was a key figure in the develo ...

, who later became an

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in the LDS Church. Annie Taylor Hyde died in

from

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, aged 59.

Notes

References

*"The Daughters of Utah Pioneers", in Kate B. Carter (ed.) (1939–1951). ''Heart Throbs of the West'' (Salt Lake City, Utah:

), vol. 11, pp. 329–428 *

Jill Mulvay Derr Jill Mulvay Derr (born September 8, 1948) was a senior research historian in the Church History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 2005 to 2011. She previously served as Managing Director of the Joseph F ...

Janath Russell Cannon Janath Russell Cannon (October 28, 1918 – July 5, 2007) was a counselor to Barbara B. Smith in the general presidency of the Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Cannon was also a prominent missionary ...

, and Maureen Ursenbach Beecher (2002). ''Women of Covenant: The Story of Relief Society'' (Salt Lake City, Utah:

Deseret Book Deseret Book () is an American publishing company headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, that also operates a chain of bookstores throughout the western United States. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Deseret Management Corporation (DMC), the ...

) *

Richard L. Jensen Richard Louis Jensen (born 1943) is an American historian who specializes in the study of the 19th-century Latter Day Saint movement in Europe and of 19th-century European Latter Day Saint immigrants in the United States. Jensen received his Bac ...

"The John Taylor Family,"
''

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'', February 1980, pp. 50–51

External links

*
Annie T. Hyde letter, Brigham Young University, Harold B. Lee Library, L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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