Lillie T. Freeze, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American Mormon leader
Date of Birth: 25-Mar-1855
Place of Birth: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Date of Death: 23-Mar-1937
Profession: writer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Lillie T. Freeze
- Lelia ("Lillie") Tuckett Freeze (March 25, 1855 – March 23, 1937) was a leader in the Primary and Young Women organizations of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Lelia Tuckett was born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory to Mormon parents.
- She attended Morgan Commercial College, a business school in Salt Lake City established by John Hamilton Morgan.
- In 1875 she married James Perry Freeze.
- Freeze was a leader in a Salt Lake City ward's branch of the Young Ladies Mutual Improvement Association (YLMIA).
- In this capacity, she was invited to speak at the Salt Lake Tabernacle on April 6, 1880, at a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the LDS Church's founding. In 1880, Lillie Freeze was one of the founding members of the LDS Church's Primary Association.
- Freeze was appointed as the first secretary of the general presidency, which was composed of Louie B.
- Felt, Matilda M.
- Barratt, and Clara C.
- M.
- Cannon.
- Freeze was secretary until 1888, when she replaced Barratt as first counselor in the general presidency of the Primary.
- Freeze was Felt's first counselor until 1905, when she was released and succeeded by May Anderson. From 1889 to 1906, Freeze was also a member of the general board of the YLMIA.
- Freeze wrote extensively for LDS Church publications and published works in the Deseret News, the Children's Friend, the Women's Exponent, the Improvement Era, and the Young Women's Journal.
- At a conference of the YLMIA in Box Elder County, Utah Territory, Freeze stated that Joseph Smith had prophesied that "the time would come that none but the women of the Latter-day Saints would be willing to bear children."Freeze was the mother of two sons and two daughters.
- She died at Salt Lake City and was buried at the Salt Lake City Cemetery.
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