Biography

Third General Relief Socity President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, plural wife of Brigham Young.
Baptized by Hyrum Smith during the Kirtland Era of the Church, she was sealed to Joseph Smith in Nauvoo, and functioned in the organization of the first Relief Socity. After Joseph's murder she married Brigham Young. Treked west staying for brief periods in both Mt. Pisgah and Winter Quarters, IA.
In Utah, served as a counselor to Eliza R. Snow in the newly reorganized Relief Socity, after Eliza's death Zina was called as President.
She only bore one child with Brigham but took on four of his other children and is known to have had a great love for teaching them. She died at the age of eighty.