Women’s voices and a wider family

Young, Huntington & Howe

Explore the Zinas, the Young household, and the earlier Howe and Huntington research.

Provisional

Strong documentary anchors coexist with older provisional and unverified connections.

Zina Presendia’s documentary biography and surviving letter bring a person’s voice into the family tree. Her mother Zina Diantha is a separate, well-documented figure whose name and relationships require careful handling.

Sources: Zina Presendia Young Williams CardZina Y. Card’s 1890 letterZina Diantha Huntington Young

The recent Young household is much better supported than the distant royal and continental extensions. The latter remain available as labelled research trails rather than an inherited claim of certainty.

Sources: The Brigham Young FamilyVE6.CA research corpus inventory

Meet the family

People in this branch

1885–1956

Joseph Young Card

Joseph’s story connects the early Cardston household with the next generations of the family.

Supported by sources

1801–1877

Brigham Young

Brigham connects Zina Presendia’s documented family to the Young and Howe research.

Supported by sources

1821–1901

Zina Diantha Huntington Young

Zina Diantha’s life is preserved in documentary collections and in the story of her daughter Zina Presendia.

Supported by sources

1763–1839

John Young

John is part of the documented household in which Brigham Young grew up.

Supported by sources

1765–1815

Abigail Howe

Abigail, also called Nabby, connects the Young household to the Howe family research.

Supported by sources

1729–1769 · research record

Joseph Young

Joseph Young is an earlier-generation research anchor in the Young and Howe family story.

Provisional

1728–1810 · research record

Elizabeth Hayden

Elizabeth Hayden is an earlier-generation research anchor in the Young and Howe family story.

Provisional

1735–1807 · research record

Phineas Howe

Phineas Howe is an earlier-generation research anchor in the Young and Howe family story.

Provisional

1738–1827 · research record

Susanna Goddard

Susanna Goddard is an earlier-generation research anchor in the Young and Howe family story.

Provisional

Dates under research

Thomas Child Williams

Thomas belongs to Zina Presendia’s first marriage and the Williams family chapter.

Supported by sources

The connections

Family relationships

Parentage and marriage are shown separately. Competing parentage claims are labelled as disputed.

Where the questions lead

Related research trails

Questions still open

Follow the evidence

Sources for this branch

Scholarly history

The Brigham Young Family

Larry C. Porter follows John and Abigail (Nabby) Howe Young’s household and its religious changes.

Research inventory

VE6.CA research corpus inventory

An overview of the five family branches, unassigned research, seven deep research trails, and collected sources.