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  • Associate Justice - Supreme Court of Utah Territory 1850-1854
  • Attorney General - Utah Territory 1869-1888

Biography

Zerubbabel Levi Snow was born 29 March 1809 in Saint Johnsberry, Caledonia County, Vermont, United States to Levi Snow (1782-1841) and Lucina Streeter (1785-1858) and died 27 September 1888 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States of unspecified causes. He married Susan Salter Lang (1810-1841) 2 October 1833 in Charleston, Orleans County, Vermont. He married Mary Augusta Hawkins (1823-1888) 3 August 1841 in Streetsboro, Portage County, Ohio. He married Mary Lavina Stone (1813-1899) 8 September 1857 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah.

Zerubbabel Snow was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement, a Mormon pioneer, and an Attorney General of the Territory of Utah.

Snow was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Snow was taught about Mormonism from missionaries Orson Pratt and Lyman E. Johnson. He was baptized into the Church of Christ in 1832. On August 23, 1832, Snow and Amasa M. Lyman were ordained to the priesthood office of elder by Joseph Smith, Jr. and Frederick G. Williams, and the two of them immediately departed on a proselytizing mission.

In 1833, Snow returned to Vermont and married Susan Slater Lang. He remained in Vermont until 1834, when he went to Ohio to become a member of Smith's Zion's Camp expedition to Missouri. His wife Susan Slater Lang died in Ohio after delivering their only child, a daughter, Susan Lizette Snow born March 14, 1841 who was later the wife of Orson Pratt Jr. After the death of his wife Susan, Snow married Mary Augusta Hawkins on August 25, 1841. This wife bore to him the following children: Cora Georganna Snow (1843–1915), Adelaide Louisa Snow (1852–1919), Zerubbabel "Zera" Levi Snow (1854–1922), George Wellington Snow (1856–1938), Herbert Walderman Snow (1863–1938) and Marion Mason Snow (1856–1939). In 1856, Snow married Mary Lavina Sawyer (née Stone) a widow who had a son named Walton O. Sawyer. Snow did not have children with this wife.

In 1835, Snow was ordained to the priesthood office of seventy and became a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy. Snow and his family migrated with the Latter Day Saints from Ohio, to Iowa, and finally to Utah Territory. In 1852 Snow was a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Virginia and Ohio. Snow also served an LDS mission to Australia from June 1856 to December 1858. On February 19, 1869, Snow was elected as the Attorney General of the Territory of Utah. He died in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory.

Zions Camp Participant

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This Judith Mehr rendition depicts struggles endured by members of Zion's Camp, an expeditionary force to help Church members in Jackson County redeem their brethren.

One of the most interesting episodes in the early history of LDS Church was the march of Zion's Camp (1834). The members of the Church in Missouri were being persecuted, and the Prophet Joseph made it a matter of prayer and received a revelation on February 24, 1834. The Lord instructed the Prophet to assemble at least one hundred young and middle-aged men and to go to the land of Zion, or Missouri. (See D&C 130:19–34.)

Zion’s Camp, a group of approximately one hundred and fifty men, gathered at Kirtland, Ohio, in the spring of 1834 and marched to Jackson County, Missouri. By the time they reached Missouri, the camp had increased to approximately two hundred men.

Zerubbabel served as Commissary General for Zions Camp with his brother Willard Trowbridge Snow (1811-1853) and sister Mary Minerva Snow (1813-1891).


Joseph Smith Papers

From Joseph Smith Papers Project(numbers following line refer to source cited.



Children


Offspring of Zerubbabel Levi Snow and Susan Salter Lang (1810-1841)
Name Birth Death Joined with
Susan Lizette Snow (1841-1927) 14 March 1841 Franklin, Portage County, Ohio, United States 16 March 1927 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States Orson Pratt (1837-1903)


Offspring of Zerubbabel Levi Snow and Mary Augusta Hawkins (1823-1888)
Name Birth Death Joined with
Cora Georgiana Snow (1843-1915)
Mary Augusta Snow (1845-1855)
Delia Rebecca Snow (1849-1915)
Adelaide Louisa Snow (1851-1929)
Ammon Snow (1853-1870)
Zerubbabel Levi Snow (1854-1922)
George Wellington Snow (1856-1938)
Walderma Snow (1860-)
Herbert Waldemar Snow (1863-1937)
Marion Mason Elliott Snow (1866-1939)



Siblings


Offspring of Levi Snow (1782-1841) and Lucina Streeter (1785-1858)
Name Birth Death Joined with
Levi Mason Snow (1803-1869)
Lucina Snow (1805-1861)
William Snow (1806-1879) 14 December 1806 St. Johnsbury, Caledonia County, Vermont, United States 19 May 1879 Pine Valley, Washington County, Utah, United States Hannah Miles (1810-1841)
Lydia Leavitt (1823-1847)
Sally Adams (1825-1904)
Jane Maria Shearer (1819-1910)
Roxanna Leavitt (1818-1881)
Ann Rogers (1834-1928)
Zerubbabel Levi Snow (1809-1888) 29 March 1809 Saint Johnsberry, Caledonia County, Vermont, United States 27 September 1888 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States Susan Salter Lang (1810-1841)
Mary Augusta Hawkins (1823-1888)
Mary Lavina Stone (1813-1899)
Willard Trowbridge Snow (1811-1853) 6 May 1811 Saint Johnsberry, Caledonia County, Vermont, United States 21 August 1853 At Sea, Atlantic Ocean Melvina Harvey (1811-1882)
Susan Harvey (1808-1849)
Mary Bingham (1820-1893)
Mary Minerva Snow (1813-1891) 30 July 1813 Saint Johnsberry, Caledonia County, Vermont, United States 9 February 1891 St. George, Washington County, Utah, United States Jacob Gates (1811-1892)
Shipley Wilson Snow (1816-1907)
Erastus Snow (1818-1888) 9 November 1818 Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, United States 27 May 1888 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States Elizabeth Rebecca Ashby (1831-1915)
Artemesia Beman (1819-1882)
Minerva White (1822-1896)
Julia Josephine Spencer (1837-1909)
Charles Van Renssaeler Snow (1821-1879)
Lydia Mason Snow (1823-1900)
Melissa Diantha Snow (1826-1903)


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