Mary Ann Burnham Freeze was a leader in the Young Ladies Mutual Improvement Association and an early pioneer who crossed the plains to Utah in the 1840s or 1850s. She is documented in the Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel database under her maiden name, Mary Ann Burnham.
Freeze served in leadership positions in the LDS Church’s women’s organizations during a formative period in their development. Her contributions to the Young Women’s organization helped establish patterns of service and education that would shape the organization for generations.
Her life and service are documented in Augusta Joyce Crocheron’s Representative Women of Deseret (1884) and in the history of the Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Association. She died in 1912, having devoted decades to strengthening the young women of Zion.