Pearl Nelson reports that Stewart "studied almost day and night for six weeks and was then qualified to go into the new telegraph office when it should be opened. Immediately she joined her family in their new abiding place". Norman L. Rue states "she practiced at Toquerville, Utah, on a wooden key for over a year". See Nelson 2017, p. 739; Rue 1967, p. 31. Nelson, Pearl (2017). "Eliza Luella Stewart Udall: Data". In Clayton, Roberta Flake; Ellis, Catherine H.; Boone, David F. (eds.). Pioneer Women of Arizona (2nd ed.). Religious Studies Center. pp. 739–740. ISBN978-1944394097. Rue, Norman L. (1967). Words by Iron Wire: Construction of the Military Telegraph in Arizona Territory, 1873–1877(PDF) (MA thesis). University of Arizona. Archived(PDF) from the original on November 15, 2022 – via UA Campus Repository.
Despite this statement, church leaders—including apostles and presidents—continued to secretly enable plural marriages, some in the United States and others in Mexico and Canada. The church gradually committed to monogamy in the early-twentieth century, a transition which culminated during the presidency of Joseph F. Smith. See Quinn 1985, pp. 42–49, 59–97 Quinn, D. Michael (Spring 1985). "LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890–1904"(PDF). Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. 18 (1): 9–105. Archived(PDF) from the original on October 18, 2022.
Pearl Nelson reports that Stewart "studied almost day and night for six weeks and was then qualified to go into the new telegraph office when it should be opened. Immediately she joined her family in their new abiding place". Norman L. Rue states "she practiced at Toquerville, Utah, on a wooden key for over a year". See Nelson 2017, p. 739; Rue 1967, p. 31. Nelson, Pearl (2017). "Eliza Luella Stewart Udall: Data". In Clayton, Roberta Flake; Ellis, Catherine H.; Boone, David F. (eds.). Pioneer Women of Arizona (2nd ed.). Religious Studies Center. pp. 739–740. ISBN978-1944394097. Rue, Norman L. (1967). Words by Iron Wire: Construction of the Military Telegraph in Arizona Territory, 1873–1877(PDF) (MA thesis). University of Arizona. Archived(PDF) from the original on November 15, 2022 – via UA Campus Repository.
Despite this statement, church leaders—including apostles and presidents—continued to secretly enable plural marriages, some in the United States and others in Mexico and Canada. The church gradually committed to monogamy in the early-twentieth century, a transition which culminated during the presidency of Joseph F. Smith. See Quinn 1985, pp. 42–49, 59–97 Quinn, D. Michael (Spring 1985). "LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890–1904"(PDF). Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. 18 (1): 9–105. Archived(PDF) from the original on October 18, 2022.