Ada was born and raised a Mormon. Her father's name was Jeffery and her mother's name was Annabelle. She hated them both with a passion that was almost otherworldly. In 1890 the Mormon church banned polygamy in order to get state hood. For Ada's whole life she was raised to believe that if she didn't practice polygamy she would burn in hell eternally-which wasn't something she wanted to think about, it was ingrained in her every single day. Their doctrine stated that in order to reach celestial heaven (the highest level) they had to enter in a plural marriage. Even though even though her parents had tried to convince her into believing it was all okay, deep down she knew it wasn't. She hated the idea of it. At sixteen her father started sexually abusing her. Telling her that it would be practice for when she was married, but made me swear not to tell my mom or the other sister wives. She knew she had to get out of there, She couldn't stay but sadly she felt there was nothing she could do. She had two choices she would either live in that present day hell or burn in hell eternally. When she was 17 her father married her off to his brother against her will-she was his fifth wife.