Zina Presendia Young 1850-1931

Zina Charles

Zina married Thomas Child Williams 12 Oct 1868.  They had Sterling (1871) and Thomas Edgar (1874).  Her husband Thomas died in 1874.

In 1878 Zina moved to Provo and became matron of the Brigham Young Academy. In January of 1879 she was sent by President John Taylor in company with Emmeline B. Wells, to Washington D.C., to the Women's Suffrage Convention. Zina Y. Willliams remained in Provo three years (until 1881), leaving there when grief over the death of her younger son, Thomas, and her own illness compelled her to resign her position. Three years later, on June 7, 1884, she married Charles Ora Card, president of Cache Stake.

In the spring of 1887 Zina Y. W. Card accompanied her husband to Canada where they, with thirty-eight others, became the pioneers of Alberta. Charles Ora Card was chosen leader. Cardston was named for them. Zina became co-founder of the L.D.S. Mission in western Canada. She became president of the Y.L.M.I.A in the later organized Alberta Stake where she served for sixteen years. She was truly a mother to the sisters of that land, delivering many of their babies, and acting as friend and counselor, always giving comfort to the distressed and discouraged. 

When President Card's health failed him they moved back to Logan. He died in 1906. She became matron of B.Y. College for three years and later, moving to Salt Lake City, she held the same position in the L.D.S. University for nearly five years. Still later she served as matron of the State-Industrial School at Ogden.

Her family, Sterling Williams, Joseph Young Card, Zina—the fourth girl in direct line to receive this name—and Orson Rega Card, along with Church duties, filled the years. She held many positions of influence and leadership wherever she lived. She served as teacher and board member in Primary, Relief Society, Y.L.M.I.A. and also as second vice-president, then president of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers.

(Our Pioneer Heritage, Volume 13 The Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association, Officers of the First Retrenchment Association Company E

Second Source:  Our Pioneer Heritage, Volume 13 The Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association, Organization of the Stakes and the Central Board of Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Association - 1893

Alberta. The organization of the association at Cardston, Alberta, Canada, in what was then known as the Canadian Mission, was the beginning of Mutual work in the Alberta Stake. This organization was effected Nov. 22nd, 1887, by Charles O. Card, his wife, Zina Young Card being chosen president. The scriptures formed the basis of their studies, and the meetings were a great blessing to the people. The work of Mrs. Card in this mission can never be properly estimated. She was the social life, soul and mainspring of the whole colony. She was hostess to every homesick, longing emigrant, nurse for the sick and dying, provider for the destitute, and a wellspring of comfort and sunshine for every soul in this part of Canada, of every class and creed.

At a quarterly conference held at the Cardston Assembly Room July 14, 1896, reports were made and an exhibition in physical culture was given by a class of Young Ladies who had been trained under Pres. Card's direction.