Elissa Wall

In early 2001 when Elissa was 14 Fred had a family meeting were he told the family that he "found a place" for three of the daughters of the family meaning that three girls would soon be married. At first Elissa did not realize that she was one of them, but once she did she tried to fight against it especially after she found out she was to marry her 18 year old first cousin Allen Steed, whom she could not stand.

Elissa Wall was born on July 6, 1986 in Salt Lake City Utah to Lloyd Wall and Sharon Steed. Elissa's family were members of FLDS Church and Elissa was one of the last of Lloyd's 22 children. As a child Elissa went to school at Alta Academy a church run school that future leader Warren Jeffs was Principal of. When Elissa was 9 years old her elder brothers and their father got into a fight and because of this Warren decided that Lloyd was not worthy of having Sharon or her children, so Sharon and her youngest children went to live with church elder Fred Jessop (who was almost 90 at the time). Elissa did not have an easy time of it because there were so many children living there and they would make fun of the Wall kids because they did not have a father. Soon after though Sharon and Fred were married and Elissa was forced to call him father and go by the name Elissa Jessop.