First Brigham Young Academy Enrollees:

Unlike the other class lists in this Directory up through 1968, the Brigham Young Academy "Class in 1876" is not a graduating class list. Instead, it is an historic list of the first class, in fact, the first 29 enrollees, that began their BYA studies in January 1876 in the Lewis Building, Provo, Utah. Those who graduated in later classes will be so noted within their alumni profiles, and their profile will appear with their graduating class in this Directory.

BY Academy High School Class in 1876. (Mary) Louisa Bean. One of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. ~ ~ ~ ~ Mary Louisa Bean was born October 30, 1859 in Provo, Utah. Her parents: James Addison Bean and Harriet Catherine Fausett Bean. At the age of 23, Mary Louisa Bean married Thomas C. Thompson on Thursday December 28, 1882. She died on Monday, November 16, 1914, at the age of 55 years. Interment, Provo, Utah.

BY Academy High School Class in 1876. Diantha Billings. One of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. She is also listed on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. ~ ~ ~ ~ Diantha Billings was born September 28, 1854 in Manti, Utah. Her parents: Alfred Nelson Billings and Deborah Patten Billings. She married John Henry Worsley on October 31, 1877. She died on August 18, 1946 in Los Angeles, California, just short of 92 years of age. Interment, Provo City Cemetery. ~ ~ ~ ~ About 150 "oldtimers" gathered for the first Alumni Emeritus Banquet during commencement week of 1941. Diantha Billings Worsley, Emma Stubbs Taylor, Alice Smoot Newell, Mary E. Cluff Little, Charles Albert Glazier, and Samuel D. Moore, members of Brigham Young Academy's first classes in 1876-77, attended the banquet.

BY Academy High School Class in 1876. Hannah Billings. One of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. She is also included on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. ~ ~ ~ ~ Hannah Billings was born on March 12, 1852 in Manti, Utah. Her parents: George Pierce Billings and Edith Patten Billings. Hannah Billings married Joseph E. Booth. She died on May 18, 1881 in Provo, Utah, at about 29 years of age. Interment, Provo City Cemetery. ~ ~ ~ ~ HER OBITUARY: Provo City, May 20, 1880. Editor, Deseret News: Permit me to chronicle through your columns the death of our much beloved Sister Hannah Booth, the wife of Bishop John E. Booth of the 4th Ward of our city, daughter of George P. and Edith (Patton) Billings. The deceased was born at Manti, Sanpete County, Utah, March 12, 1852, and died of pneumonia May 18, 1881, has been a resident of Provo since the date of her marriage, April 1876, entering into all the duties of her sex in connection with her sisters, occupying many prominent positions in the 4th Ward, viz: President of the Primary Association, Counselor to the President of the Young Ladies' Improvement Association, Secretary of the Silk Association, and actively engaged in teaching the district school of the ward at the time of her attack by the disease which resulted in her death, all of which offices were filled with a quiet fidelity and success to the advancement of their several interests. As a mark of the great respect in which the deceased sister was held, the Brigham Young Academy of which she had been a successful pupil, adjourned to attend the funeral services, which were held this afternoon. The remains were borne from her residence to the meeting house by the young men of the B. Y. Academy, followed by the father and immediate friends; next in order the various societies and associations in which the deceased held active interest during her life -- the sisters of the Relief Society, the students of the B. Y. Academy, Sunday school pupils, Young Ladies' Improvement Association, and children of her day school, some of them weeping bitterly at the lost of their kind friend and instructress. The services at the meeting-house were of an impressive nature; the singing of the children of the Primary Association was very affecting, as their sweet, fresh, young voice repeated in beautiful harmony the words, "Oh my Father, thou that dwellest;" tears were drawn from many eyes other than those of the immediate relatives and friends. The discourse of Elder Karl G. Maeser was instructive and eulogistic (unintentionally however) of the quiet but noble life and exertions of the deceased, as witnessed in the attendance of so many sympathetic friends of all ages and conditions of the citizens of our city. Bishop J. S. McCulloch and Prest. David John followed Brother Maeser. At the close of the services the remains were followed to the cemetery by one of the largest processions ever witnessed in this city. ~ ~ A. Jones [Deseret News, June 8, 1881.]

BY Academy High School Class in 1876. Electa Bullock. One of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. She is also included on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. ~ ~ ~ ~ Electa Bullock was born March 6, 1859 in Provo, Utah. Her parents: Isaac Bullock and Electa Wood Bullock. She married Abraham Owen Smoot II on October 30, 1878 in Salt Lake City, Utah. She died on April 18, 1887 in Provo, Utah, at 28 years of age, in childbirth. The deceased mother, Electa Bullock Smoot, had been blessed with compassionate parents. The Bullocks gave up the hotel they ran on 5th West (no longer standing) to come to the aid of their son-in-law, Abraham Owen Smoot II, until he later remarried. The children were raised and trained by their grandparents until the remarriage. Her interment, Provo, Utah.

BY Academy High School Class in 1876. Caroline Ameilia "Caddie" Daniels. BYA High School, Class of 1877. One of three Class of 1877 graduates: Amelia Kristina "Teenie" Smoot, Samuel Moore, and Caroline "Caddie" Daniels. Source: 1920 BYU Banyan, school history written by Alice Louise Reynolds. ~ ~ ~ ~ One of the First BYA Faculty & Staff. The first Normal graduate of Brigham Young Academy, she joined the BYA faculty upon her graduation in 1877. One of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. ~ ~ ~ ~ Faculty & Staff. Caddie Daniels, Training School, 1876-1884. She is also listed on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. ~ ~ ~ ~ Caroline Ameilia (Caddie) Daniels was born on December 9, 1860, in Provo, Utah. Her parents: Aaron Daniels and Hannah Caroline Rogers. [First marriage for her mother. Second marriage: James Davis (Caroline Rogers Davis). Third Marriage: Abraham O. Smoot (Caroline Rogers Smoot). ] Caddie Daniels entered Brigham Young Academy in 1876, and graduated as a Normal high school student in 1877, at about 17 years of age. She became a faculty member at BYA upon graduation in 1877, and taught there through 1884. She married Charles Frank Mills (Frank) on March 22, 1883. She was 22 years old when she married. Frank Mills was born on December 14, 1861 in Kaysville, Utah. He died on July 21, 1914 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Caroline "Caddie" Daniels Mills died on August 24, 1934, in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the age of 73. Interment, Salt Lake City, Utah.

BY Academy High School Class in 1876. Sarah Louisa Eggertsen. One of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. [Do not confuse with S. P. Eggertsen.] She is also listed on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. ~ ~ ~ ~ Sarah Louisa Eggertssen was born November 11, 1858 in Provo, Utah. Her parents: Simon Peter Eggertsen, Sr., and Johanne Andreasen Thomasen [or Thompson, or Thornsen]. Sarah married Harvey Harris Cluff on July 6, 1877 in St. George, Utah, when she was age 18. She died December 11, 1944 at the age of 86, in Salt Lake City, Utah. [She had a sister, Sarah Emily Eggertsen, who also married Harvey H. Cluff.]

BY Academy High School Class in 1876, and 1881. Simon P. (S. P.) Eggertsen, Jr. One of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. [Do not confuse with Sara (S.) Eggertsen.] He is also listed on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. ~ ~ ~ ~ BY Academy High School Class of 1881. Simon Eggertsen. Diploma in the Normal (teaching) course. Source: The Territorial Enquirer, June 22, 1881, Provo, Utah. ~ ~ ~ ~ Collegiate Grad of BYU, Class of 1934. Simon P. Eggertsen. He received an M.S. Degree in History in 1934. Source: Annual Record, B.Y. University, Book 9, page 259. ~ ~ ~ ~ Simon Peter Eggertsen, Jr., was born on September 15, 1860 in Provo, Utah, to Simon Peter Eggertsen, Sr., and Johanna Andreasen Thompson Eggertsen. He married "Etta" Henrietta Petrea Nielsen [or Nelson] on June 26, 1884 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He died February 20, 1938 in Provo, Utah, at about 78 years of age. His interment, Provo City Cemetery.

BY Academy High School Class in 1876. Rachel Catharine Ferre. One of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. She is also included on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. ~ ~ ~ ~ Rachel Catharine Ferre was born the day after Christmas, December 26, 1860 in Provo, Utah. Her parents: Roswell Chapin Ferre and Rachel Catherine Hollister. Rachel married Isaac Higbee McEwan on Christmas Day, December 25, 1879, at the age of 19. She died on February 2, 1889, in Provo, Utah, at the age of 28.

Original BY Academy High School Class in 1876. Alma Greenwood (male). BYA High School Class of 1878, Normal Diploma, Friday, June 21, 1898. One of five members of the second graduating class of Brigham Young Academy. Source: Deseret News, June 21, 1878. Alma Greenwood was one of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. He is also included on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. ~ ~ ~ ~ Alma Greenwood was born on October 18, 1854 in American Fork, Utah. During all of his youth he herded cows and irrigated fields. He was one of the better students all through his boyhood and into college. Upon arrival at Brigham Young Academy as a strong, eager young man, he was given the job of making the fires for Dr. Karl G. Maeser. Alma was particularly commended as one of the more promising members of the first graduating class of the Academy. He was encouraged by Dr. Maeser to take up education as a profession. ~ ~ ~ ~ "Fillmore has been re-consolidated into one ward under Bishop T. A. Smith. There was a thriving day school taught by Mr. Alma Greenwood, a graduate of the Brigham Young Academy, of Provo, who is much liked by the people for his good management and general efficiency." [Deseret News, July 7, 1880.] ~ ~ ~ ~ Alma Greenwood was, at various times, a Teacher, Principal, Farmer, Orator, and Legislator. He first married Florence Melissa Brown, daughter of A. Samuel Brown and Helen Vernera McBride. Married June 12, 1879 in Endowment House, SLC, Utah. She died June 18, 1893 in Fillmore, Utah. He second married Evelyn Olsen, on January 19, 1894. She died at age 29. He third married Annena Sorensen five years after Evelyn's death. Alma Greenwood died on March 21, 1929, after one hour's illness. Interment, Fillmore, Utah, family plot.

BY Academy High School Class in 1876. Jonathan Lewis Harvey. One of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. He is also included on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. ~ ~ ~ ~ Jonathan L. Harvey was born on March 8, 1855, in Cedar City, Utah. His parents: Lewis Harvey and Lucinda Clark (a twin) Harvey. He married Mary Helen Alexander on December 30, 1880, in Salt Lake City, Utah. He died on March 11, 1945, in Pleasant Grove, Utah, at the age of 90, just after his birthday. Interment, Pleasant Grove Cemetery.

BY Academy High School Class in 1876. Martha Ann John. One of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. She is also included on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. ~ ~ ~ ~ Martha Ann John was born on October 1, 1864, in Provo, Utah. Her parents: David John and Mary Wride John. Martha married David Joseph Williams on August 30, 1883, in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was almost 19 years of age at marriage. She died on March 12, 1927, in Salt Lake City, Utah, at about the age of 63. Interment, Salt Lake City.

BY Academy High School Class in 1876, and 1881. Mary Jane John. One of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. She is also included on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. ~ ~ ~ ~ BY Academy High School Class of 1881. Mary John. Diploma in the Normal (teaching) course. Source: The Territorial Enquirer, June 22, 1881, Provo, Utah. ~ ~ ~ ~ She married Benjamin Cluff, Jr., third principal of Brigham Young Academy. ~ ~ ~ ~ Mary Jane John was born on July 23, 1862 [a few records say 1863] in Provo, Utah. Her parents: David John and Mary Wride John. She married Benjamin Cluff on August 16, 1883, in Salt Lake City, Utah, when she was 21 years old. She died on February 27, 1934, in Provo, Utah, at the age of 71. Interment, Provo City Cemetery.

BY Academy High School Class in 1876. Minerva Jones. One of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. She is also listed on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. ~ ~ ~ ~ Minerva Eliza Jones was born on December 8, 1862 in Provo, Utah. Her parents: John D. Jones and Susana [or Susan or Susannah] Boren Jones. Minerva married Graham Little Daley on November 24, 1881 in Provo, Utah, at almost the age of 19. She died on January 3, 1883 in Provo, Utah, at the age of 20. Interment, Provo, Utah.

Original BY Academy High School Class in 1876, graduated Class of 1880. Joseph B. Keeler. One of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. He is also included on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. Also BYA Faculty & Staff. Joseph B. Keeler, Theology teacher, 1884-1920. He appears in a photo of the first faculty to serve under Principal Benjamin Cluff in 1892. He married Martha Alice Fairbanks, who was born June 29, 1860, and married to Joseph on May 17, 1883. Her father was David Fairbanks. Joseph was born September 8, 1855 in Salt Lake City, Utah. His parents were David Hutchinson Keeler and Ann Brown (widow of Benjamin Taylor, by whom she had five children: James Taylor; Sarah Taylor; Ann Taylor; Mary Jane Taylor; and Martha Tayor, who died early). Fleeing Salt Lake Valley from Johnston's Army in 1858, the Keeler family reached Provo where the family located, and where Joseph grew into young manhood. His desire for education and the opening of Brigham Young Academy coincided, and he was one of the very first students to enroll. He concluded his studies at BYA in 1879-1880, and in 1880 he was appointed editor of the local newspaper, The Provo Enquirer. He held the position for only a few months, because he was called on a mission in the Southern States, where he served until March of 1882. After holding several public offices (City Assessor, County Recorder), he accepted a teaching position at Brigham Young Academy to be head of the Intermediate Department. Joseph's new work at the school was to begin on January 28, 1884, but on the night of the 27th the Academy's Lewis Building burned to the ground. The school missed only two days, and Joseph began his teaching on January 30th, in temporary quarters. He was instrumental in handling financial affairs so that the struggling school did not close, including helping to start and maintain a boarding house for out-of-town students. In July of 1888 he was described in the Deseret News as, "Joseph B. Keeler, 1st Counselor to Karl G. Maeser, is head of the Academic Department: Bookkeeping, History and Civil Government." Over the years, J. B. Keeler was a vital teacher and administrator, and mainstay without which the Academy could not have continued. He deserves his own unique memorial in the history of Brigham Young Academy and later Brigham Young University. When he retired in 1921, he had accumulated 37 years of service to the school. ~ ~ ~ ~ Joseph Brigham Keeler was born on September 8, 1855 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He died on December 21, 1935 in Provo, Utah, at the age of 80. Interment, Provo City Cemetery.

BY Academy High School Class in 1876. Julia Rosella (Rose) McEwan. One of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. She is also included on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. ~ ~ ~ ~ Julia Rose (Rosella, or Rosilla, or Rozilla? ) McEwan was born on February 20, 1860 in Provo, Utah. Her parents: John McEwan and Amanda Melissa (or Melvina) Higbee. At the age of 19 she married William Wallace Haws Jr., on March 6, 1879, in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was born September 20, 1856, in Provo, Utah, to William Wallace Haws, Sr., and Barbara Belinda Mills. Rose McEwan Haws died on January 25, 1935 in Provo, Utah, just short of 75 years of age. Interment, Provo City Cemetery. [Note: Not Hawes or Hows.]

BY Academy High School Class in 1876. Rose Moore. One of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. She married ______ Searle. ~ ~ ~ ~ [IS THIS ROSLTHA (sic) on burial records (Rosatha, Rosetha, Rosotha?) - Rosltha Searle was born November 20, 1859 in Provo, Utah. She died on June 5, 1955 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Interment, Provo City Cemetery.] ~ ~ ~ ~ [1880 UTAH CENSUS: Roseltha Moore. Female. Birth Year <1860>. Birthplace UT. Age 20. Occupation At Home. Marital Status S . Race W . Head of Household: L. B. MOORE. Relation Dau . Father's Birthplace: MA. Mother's Birthplace: IL. Census Place Provo, Utah.]

BY Academy High School Class in 1876. Mary Nielsen [not Nielson]. One of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. ~ ~ ~ ~ Mary Nelsena Caroline Nielsen was born on November 14, 1857 in [Nestvid] Grenna, Randers, East Jutland, Denmark. Her parents: Soren Nielsen and Petrine Amalia Berg. At the age of 20 she married Jorgen Hansen on May 13, 1877 in Provo, Utah. She died on February 2, 1931 in Orem, Utah, at the age of 74. Interment, Provo City Cemetery.

BY Academy High School Class in 1876. Mariette, Riggs [or rarely, Marietta]. One of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. She is also listed on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. ~ ~ ~ ~ Mariette Riggs was born March 5, 1859 in Provo, Utah. Her parents: Dr. John Riggs and Jane Kelton Bullock Riggs. She first married William Oxley Beesley on December 21, 1882 in Salt Lake City, Utah, and he died in 1924. [She may have second married _____ Kehl, but she was buried under the name Mariette Riggs Beesley, and her spouse was listed only as William O. Beesley.] She died October 25, 1931 in Provo, Utah, at about 72 years of age. Interment, Provo City Cemetery.

BY Academy High School Class in 1876. Mary J. Roberts. One of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. She is also included on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. ~ ~ ~ ~ Mary Jane (May) Roberts was born on October 18, 1861 in Provo, Utah. Her parents: Benjamin Morgan Roberts, Sr., and Mary Ann (Polly) Bullock. At the age of 21, Mary (May) married James Roger Farrer on October 30, 1882 in Provo, Utah. She died on January 26, 1930 in Provo, Utah, at the age of 68. Interment, Provo City Cemetery.

BY Academy High School Class in 1876. Fannie Rogers. BYA High School Class of 1878, Normal diploma, Friday, June 21, 1878. She is one of five members of the Class of 1878. Source: Deseret News, June 21, 1878. Fannie Rogers is one of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. She is also included on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. [Spelled Rogers, not Rodgers, on both lists.] ~ ~ ~ ~ [A Fannie Rogers is buried in the Draper, Utah, Cemetery, without any vital information.] [Fannie can be a nickname for Frances.]

BY Academy High School Class in 1876. Alice Smoot. One of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. She is also included on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. ~ ~ ~ ~ About 150 "oldtimers" gathered for the first Alumni Emeritus Banquet during commencement week of 1941. Diantha Billings Worsley, Emma Stubbs Taylor, Alice Smoot Newell, Mary E. Cluff Little (?), Charles Albert Glazier, and Samuel D. Moore, members of Brigham Young Academy's first classes in 1876-77, attended the banquet. ~ ~ ~ ~ Alice Smoot was born on February 6, 1860, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her parents: Abraham Owen Smoot II and Anne Kirstine Mauritzen [Morrison]. Alice Smoot married Myron Clark Newell on December 13, 1878, in Salt Lake City, Utah. She died in Provo, Utah, on February 26, 1950. Interment, Provo City Cemetery.

BY Academy High School, Class in 1876. Olive Smoot. One of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. She is also included on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. ~ ~ ~ ~ Olive Smoot was born on February 10, 1860 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her parents: Abraham Owen Smoot II and Diana Eldredge. On October 18, 1876, at the age of 16, Olive Smoot married James William Bean. James died in 1941. Olive died on July 28, 1943 in Rexburg, Idaho. She was about 83 years old. Interment, Provo City Cemetery.

Original BY Academy High School Class in 1876, graduated in the Class of 1880. Reed Smoot. The first of the original 29 students to register on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. He graduated in the BYA high school Class of 1880. Board of Trustees, Brigham Young Academy, 1893 to 1938. He is also listed on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. ~ ~ ~ ~ Reed Smoot, Senator from Utah; and Apostle, LDS Church. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, January 10, 1862; moved with his parents to Provo, Utah County, Utah, in 1874; attended Mormon church schools and academies and completed his studies at Brigham Young Academy high school at Provo in 1879 [no college classes at that time], graduating with the BYA high school Class of 1880; engaged in banking, mining, livestock raising, and in the manufacture of woolen goods; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1902; reelected in 1908, 1914, 1920 and 1926 and served from March 4, 1903, to March 3, 1933; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932; chairman, Committee on Patents (Sixtieth Congress), Committee on Printing (Sixty-first and Sixty-second Congresses), Committee on Public Lands (Sixty-second and Sixty-sixth Congresses), Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Public Lands and Surveys (Sixty-seventh Congress), Committee on Finance (Sixty-eighth through Seventy-second Congresses); co-author of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930; moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1933; retired from active business pursuits; served as one of the twelve apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormon Church) and at the time of his death was next in line to succeed the president of the quorum and third to succeed the president; died in St. Petersburg, Fla. on a visit there, February 9, 1941; interment in Provo Burial Park, Provo, Utah. [The Smoots are Mayflower descendants.] Reed Smoot married Alpha May Eldredge of Salt Lake City on 17 September 1884. They were the parents of six children: Harold Reed Smoot, Chloe Smoot, Harlow Eldredge Smoot [I], Annie K. Smoot, Zella Esther Smoot, and Ernest Winder Smoot. Alpha died on 7 November 1928 and Smoot later married Mrs. Alice Taylor Sheets on 2 July 1930. [Note: Reed Smoot diaries published: http://www.signaturebooks.com/smoot.htm ] ~ ~ ~ ~ Reed Smoot was born on January 10, 1862 in Provo, Utah. His father: Abraham Owen Smoot. He married Alpha May Eldridge, and she died in 1929. Reed Smoot died on February 9, 1941 while on a visit to St. Petersburg, Florida. Interment, Provo City Cemetery. Congressional Biography.

BY Academy High School Class in 1876. Zina Smoot. One of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. ~ ~ ~ ~ Zina Beal Smoot was born on February 20, 1859 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her parents: Abraham Owen Smoot and Emily Hill. At the age of 20 she married Orson Ferguson Whitney on December 18, 1879 in Salt Lake City, Utah. She died on May 23, 1900 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Interment, Salt Lake City Cemetery.