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Snow's Baptist parents welcomed a variety of religious believers into their home.

In 1828, Snow and her parents joined Alexander Campbell ’ s Christian restorationist movement, the Disciples of Christ.

When Joseph Smith, Jr., the Latter Day Saint prophet, took up residence in Hiram, Ohio, four miles from the Snow farm in 1831, the Snow family took a strong interest in the new religious movement.

Eliza's mother and sister joined the Latter Day Saint Church early on ; several years later, in 1835, Eliza was baptized and moved to Kirtland, Ohio, which was at the time the headquarters of the Church.

Upon her arrival, Eliza donated her inheritance, a large sum of money, toward the building of the Church's Kirtland Temple.

In appreciation, the building committee provided her with the title to “ a very valuable-situated near the Temple, with a fruit tree-an excellent spring of water, and house that accommodated two families .” Here Eliza taught school for Joseph Smith's family and was influential in interesting her younger brother Lorenzo Snow in the young Church.

Lorenzo later became fifth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.