Clarissa S. Williams

Clarissa Smith Williams (April 21, 1859 – March 8, 1930) was the sixth Relief Society General President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1921 to 1928.

Williams was the first native Utahn to become Relief Society president.

Clarissa Smith was born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, to Susan West, the seventh wife of LDS Church apostle George A.

[3] Williams served in this position until 1910, when she became the first counselor to president Emmeline B.

Due to failing health, Williams asked to be released from her calling in 1928 and was succeeded by Louise Y.

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Clarissa S. Williams