The daughter of Edmund Lovell Ellsworth and Mary Ann Dudley, she was married to William Nephi Stephens, on the 27th of September 1883, at the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, Utah. He died on the 8th of February 1946. She wrote her own autobiograpy and it is not very long, I will include a little of it here.
Brief History Of Susan Lorena Ellsworth Stephens
written by Susan
My father's name was Edmund Lovell Ellsworth. He was born at Paris, Onida County, New York 1 July 1819. He was baptized 29 February 1841 by Lyman Heath with his sister Charlott and her husband William Cogswell. My mother's name was Mary Ann Dudley. She was born at Gilmanton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, 11 August 1834. She was baptized when she was 8 years old by Orson Hyde in Boston Harbor and confirmed by Heber C Kimball.
Father and mother were married in Salt Lake City 24 December 1852 by Brigham Young. They had the following children: Mary Ann, Born 26 June 1854 at Salt lake City, Utah; Albert Lovell; 20 Sept 1857 Salt Lake James, 31 Oct 1859, (died 9 Nov 1860) Oliver Dudley, 4 Oct 1861; Susan Lorena, 19 Jan 1864; Asa Charles, 17 Sept 1866 West Weber, Weber County, Ut. Jerome 11 Feb 1869 Dudley, 11 July 1871 (died 11 July 1871) Hannah 4 Nov 1872.
My father had four wives. They were Elizabeth Young, the oldest daughter of Brigham Young, Mary Ann Dudley (my mother) and two English women Mary Ann Bates and Mary Ann Jones. Father married his first wife Elizabeth Young in Nauvoo, my mother in Salt Lake City in 1852 and the last two in Salt Lake City, 10 October 1856. Elizabeth had eight children, my mother nine and Mary Ann Bates thirteen and Mary Ann Jones twelve a total of 42 children. We all lived in Salt Lake City and then moved to West Weber.I think we lived in the Weber about three or four years.I think it was in 1866 we moved south about two miles where the town of West Weber now is. My father made four houses about fiftyyards apart. We all had some jolly good times as well as little fights that were soon settled. The children mostly went bare foot in the summertime and sometimes when it was quite cold we went almost shoeless. Elizabeth's children didn't suffer much for anything because her father, Brigham Young, helped her out and often the rest shared with them, but my father did as well as anyman could, getting his money from the labor of his own efforts. Hebought quite a number of saw mills. One in Salt Lake City on Millcreek or City Creek. One at Peidmont and one at Soda Springs, Idaho. He hired lots of men for chopping and hauling. We generally grew the vegetables we had and the wheat for our flour.I can't remember when we didn't have bread although we have been very low at times with something to eat with the bread, but we generally had molasses and as a rule we had cows to milk. My father and mother were both quite religious. I don't remember of ever going to bed in my father's house when there wasn't prayers. Sometimes I have thought "How could a man be at the head of such a big family without inspiration from God ?" Four dispositions in wives, then all those children to see after. How hard it seems now to manage two or three let alone forty-two children. My father was postmaster for two years and had many friends.My oldest sister, Mary, was married to Spencer V Raymond in 1873. My youngest sister Hannah, was born in West Weber on November 4 1873. That winter I was nine years old.