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100

The first mother.

Eve

100

She was the virgin mother of Christ.

Mary

100

Overcame generations of evil traditions by making a covenant of peace with God. Their sons famously fought under Helaman and not one died.

Mothers of the Stripling Warriors

100

Wife of the prophet Joseph Smith. Compiled the first hymnal of the church, and was founding president of the Relief Society.

Emma Smith

200

Laughed when she was told she would have a baby at the age of 90.

Sarah

200

Mother of John the Baptist, whom she named in place of her husband who was mute until he was named.

Elizabeth

200

Married to the sons of Lehi. Some of these women's supplications helped to save Nephi and keep the peace. Together their posterity included all of the Nephites and Lamanites.

Daughters of Ishmael

200

Mother to the prophet Joseph Smith and author of his most authoritative memoir.

Lucy Mack Smith

300

Promised the Lord that if she had a son, he would serve God "all the days of his life". Her son was the prophet who anointed David as king.

Hannah

300

Woman on whom Jesus had compassion and brought her only son back to life upon seeing his funeral procession.

Widow of Nain

300

Trusted in Ammon's words with incredible faith, and had an overwhelming experience with the Spirit which caused her to faint and be born again.

Didn't think her husband stinks.

Wife of King Lamoni

300

Widow of Hyrum Smith and famously gritty pioneer. Insisted on having her sick oxen blessed with consecrated oil on 3 occasions, allowing her to continue Westward.

Mary Fielding Smith

400

During a famine in Israel, this woman took care of her widowed mother in law rather than return to a life of comfort. Her name has come to mean compassion.

Ruth & Naomi

400

Unnamed mother-in-law healed by Jesus of a great fever, and then promptly starts cooking for all the visitors in her house.

Peter's Mother in Law

400

Suffered death by fire with their children after confessing their belief in Alma and Amulek's teachings.

Martyrs at Amonihah

400

Called "Zion's Poetess", many of her poems were put to song and included in church hymns. She was a founding member of the first relief society, and was single-handedly responsible for re-establishing the Relief Society once the saints were established in Utah. Wife to both Joseph Smith and later Brigham Young.

Eliza R Snow

500

The only recorded female judge in Israel - This "Mother of Israel" foretold that the glory would be taken from the captain of the hosts of Israel and given to a woman.

Deborah & Jael

500

Grandmother to Timothy, praised by Paul as a woman of "unfeigned faith" which she passed on to Timothy's mother Eunice

Lois

500

After suffering abuse at the hand of this Nephite dissenter, his maidservant came to the camp of Captain Moroni and revealed their military plans, allowing him to stop the rebellion in time.

Maidservant of Morianton

500

Called "indomitable", this gutsy second wife to Brigham Young (after the death of his first wife) endured mobs ransacking her home, extreme sickness, starvation, and many other hardships while her husband was in hiding - all while carrying a newborn.

Once revived Brigham Young after he became unresponsive with scarlet fever - She described in her journal using what we now know as CPR according to revelation - a century before it was developed.

Mary Ann Young