In 1842 Sarah Granger Kimball and Margaret A. Cook thought to combine their efforts to help workers in the Nauvoo Temple. Decided to invite her neighbors to help them create a society of ladies. It asked Eliza R. Snow to write the constitution of the company and sent a copy to Joseph Smith for approval. After reading the constitution and say that is the best he had read , the prophet offered to organize a society under the authority of the priesthood, with a parallel model to the priesthood.
Thursday March 17, 1842 , 20 women gathered on the roof of the red brick store of Smith, in Nauvoo. John Taylor and Willard Richards attended this meeting. the prophet declared that the goal of society was to help correct and strengthen the moral virtues of community, society encourage the brothers to perform good works that benefit the poor, looking for charity, and manage their needs. The prophet propueso into submission vote on the election of a president and that she would call their counselors. Emma Smith was elected and she chose Sarah M. Cleveland and Elizabeth Ann Whitney.
was proposed that the group is called the Benevolent Society and voted in favor. However, Emma Smith objected and proposed a new name: The Female Relief Society of Nauvoo . Joseph Smith gave five dollars of gold to start the company.
The first women who were part of this society were: Emma Hale Smith, Sarah M. Cleveland, Phebe Ann Hawkes, Elizabeth Jones, Sophia Packard, Philinda Merrick, Martha Knight, Desdemona Fulmer, Elizabeth Ann Whitney, Leonora Taylor, W. Batsheba Smith, Phebe M. Wheeler, Elvira A. Coles (Cowles, AC Elivira Later Holmes), Margaret A. Cook, Sarah Granger Kimball, Eliza R. Snow, Sophia Robinson, and Sophia R. Marks. Additionally it, eight Other Women Were Not That Day present to membership ADMITTED: Sarah Higbee, Thirza Cahoon, Keziah A. Morrison, Marinda N. Hyde, Abigail Allred, Mary Snider, Sarah S. Granger, and Cynthia A. Eldredge.
THE PROGRESS OF THE RELIEF SOCIETY
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