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2 unusual facts about Relief Society


Relief Society

Since April 2012, the General Relief Society Presidency has been composed of Linda K. Burton, President; Carole M. Stephens, First Counselor; and Linda S. Reeves, Second Counselor.

"The Spirit of God Like a Fire Is Burning" was sung, and Taylor opened the meeting with prayer.



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1850 in Norway

25 December - Elizabeth Fedde, Lutheran Deaconess who established the Norwegian Relief Society (died 1921)

Emma Smith

On March 24, 1842 the Ladies' Relief Society was formally organized as the women's auxiliary to the church and Emma became its founding president, with Sarah M. Cleveland and Elizabeth Ann Whitney as her counselors.

Sampson Simson

In 1888, the New York State Supreme Court decided that the sum, plus thirty years' interest, was to be paid to the North American Relief Society for Indigent Jews in Jerusalem.

Sampson Simson (born 1780, died 1857) was an American philanthropist most remembered as "the father of Mount Sinai Hospital" and as benefactor, posthumously, to the North American Relief Society for Indigent Jews in Jerusalem, Palestine.

Spafford

Belle S. Spafford (1895–1982), former president of the Relief Society

Yanagida Toshiko

In 1968 when the Japanese mission was split and the Osaka Japan Mission was created Yanagida was assigned to be mission relief society president under the general supervision of the mission president's wife, Chieko N. Okazaki.