Ida Hunt Udall

Ida Hunt Udall
Ida Hunt Udall
	Udall in 1905
Born	Ida Frances Hunt; March 8, 1858; Hamilton Fort, Utah, U. S.
Died	April 26, 1915 (aged 57); Hunt, Arizona, U. S.
Burial place	Saint Johns Cemetery, St. Johns, Arizona
Known for	Diary literature; homesteading; Latter-day Saint polygamy;
Notable work	Personal diary (compiled in Mormon Odyssey: The Story of Ida Hunt Udall, Plural Wife)
Spouses	David King Udall; (became husband & wife 1882); Eliza Luella Stewart; (became co-wives 1882); Mary Ann Linton; (became co-wives 1903);

Ida Frances Hunt Udall (March 8, 1858 – April 26, 1915) was an American diarist, homesteader, and teacher in territorial Utah and Arizona. A lifelong member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), Udall participated in the church's historical practice of plural marriage as the second wife of Latter-day Saint bishop David King Udall and co-wife of former telegraphist Ella Stewart Udall and of Mary Ann Linton Morgan Udall, a widow of John Hamilton Morgan.

During the height of the United States' prosecutorial campaign against polygamy in the 1880s, Udall went into hiding as a fugitive on the "Mormon Underground", or the practice of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) going into hiding to evade arrest or subpoena for antipolygamy prosecution. From 1882 to 1886, she authored a diary of her life in plural marriage and then on the Underground. This diary, considered a "major contribution to Mormon pioneer literature" by biographer Maria Ellsworth, later became the core of a posthumous biography that won the Mormon History Association's Best Biography Award.

Called a "serene intellectual" by historian Leonard J. Arrington, Udall spent much of her adulthood homesteading in eastern Arizona while she raised six children, several of whom went on to have influential political careers.

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