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Show yearsf with and. boob.2 plain name, a a and plainer face, for music passion a At the time of her ba.ptism, l$. Gates add$<! the middle name o£ but this is not the end of the story. Amlia, Brigham Young that she had. been named in honor of his sister; Susan. once implied Altbough Mrs. Gates and hezt mother insisted that she had been nanled. attexo SUSanrle Richard.• ,. as nurse at her birth, Brigham Young persisted in his Mrs. Gates opinion. made peace by saying: "Well, tether" if you shall''be to the end. of t".ple reeord.$ •••• tI it think my name th$ ehapt$r to be Susan ..._ S\1$sn lor I will change the ought ••• Here is t,he conelusion, however, of Iff1 name. When the viU of was r$ad my name wa$ written' by some blundering and. therefore, since clerk, 8118a,· l.eaving off the final nJ then, I am Susan in the t.emple i Susa in my ordinary signatures an4 in legal doc:wnents, Su to my dearest and nearest. 8u., to those, who retain that ating memorT of 1!f1' childish name, Sister Suey to OJne old quaint triend, Aunty Sates to tbe children of m'1 clear brother Joseph , Smith, Susannah and Susanne variolls]Jr in early records, and Aunt 8nsa to aU rtr1' dear and. belovtd girls.3 w;y fa.ther • • • • • • - • By the time sbe Much was eight, Mrs. read.ing had given her, and in the "little supernatural, Wben I was people" to of Gates had gi V$ her, a an for books. passion unwavering belief in the fairyland; young girl all sorts of subject. connsQted with and magic had a powerful oharm for my it!:taginative mind. In tact I I don tt think I shall confess to what an absu.rd It _s, extent these notions of mine 't"il'ere sometime.s earned, not until. I was old enou.gh to be a.s-hamed of myself t,hat I lost all a.pprehensiQn of' seeing a tadey jp out of every flower .1 plucked, or of hEtaring a genii NIT' eve'1/7 tbte I threw d.ow, the seed of a. date.'4-' was a fortune-telling • '[ U] 2uThe Editor Presumes to Talk about p. Herself." YOtl,tl.,g io,:urpa.l 203ft 4ftEditorts Department," IlI,S6. • . (Jan., 1,8(6) V1.I, 200-20,. 'Ibid., • Young Wqmt.n's ' Journa (Hov." 18'1) |
