Author: Henry Earle RiggsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Our Pioneer Ancestors
Author: Henry Earle RiggsOur Pioneer Ancestors
Author: Mormon Thunder
Author: Gene A. SessionsPublisher: Greg Kofford Books
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Jedediah Morgan Grant was a man who knew no compromise when it came to principles—and his principles were clearly representative, argues Gene A. Sessions, of Mormonism’s first generation. His life is a glimpse of a Mormon world whose disappearance coincided with the death of this “pious yet rambunctiously radical preacher, flogging away at his people, demanding otherworldliness and constant sacrifice.” It was “an eschatological, pre-millennial world in which every individual teetered between salvation and damnation and in which unsanitary privies and appropriating a stray cow held the same potential for eternal doom as blasphemy and adultery.” Updated and newly illustrated with more photographs, this second edition of the award-winning documentary history (first published in 1982) chronicles Grant’s ubiquitous role in the Mormon history of the 1840s and ’50s. In addition to serving as counselor to Brigham Young during two tumultuous and influential years at the end of his life, he also portentously befriended Thomas L. Kane, worked to temper his unruly brother-in-law William Smith, captained a company of emigrants into the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, and journeyed to the East on several missions to bolster the position of the Mormons during the crises surrounding the runaway judges affair and the public revelation of polygamy. Jedediah Morgan Grant’s voice rises powerfully in these pages, startling in its urgency in summoning his people to sacrifice and moving in its tenderness as he communicated to his family. From hastily scribbled letters to extemporaneous sermons exhorting obedience, and the notations of still stunned listeners, the sound of “Mormon Thunder” rolls again in “a boisterous amplification of what Mormonism really was, and would never be again.”
Minnesota Pioneer Women 1840-1860
Author: Georgetta HickeyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781986377515
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The Minnesota frontier was transformed in the 1840s, from the fur trade to lumber, and in the 1850s, from lumber to farming. Its vast forests and prairies were settled by those arriving by wagon and steamboat--the pioneers.Of the many pioneer women in Minnesota in the years 1840-1860, the forty-four portrayed in this book are ancestors of members of the Lake Minnetonka Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. As a companion to the chapter's restoration of the 1929 DAR monument "Honoring Minnesota Pioneer Women 1840-1860" at the Sibley House in Mendota, Minnesota, this book affords the opportunity to paint a picture of the hardships, courage and adventurous spirit of these pioneer women, so that their stories live on.
Find Names for the Temple
Author: Nicole DyerPublisher: Family Locket Books
ISBN: 9781732188112
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Whether your family tree is partially filled out, mostly complete, or full with many LDS relatives, this step-by-step method will help you discover new relatives and reserve their temple ordinances. You will review the accuracy of your tree, analyze your pedigree, and make a list of ancestors to research. Those with many LDS relatives will locate research opportunities by diving deeper into tree analysis and listing ancestors who were not members of the LDS Church. Using descendancy research to find cousins will open doors for those will full family trees. Instead of selecting random ancestors, you will systematically view descendancy trees for each of the ancestors in your list. By evaluating each descendancy tree, you can determine which branches are most likely to contain candidates for further research likely to be found in available records. Once you have chosen a relative to focus on, you'll begin a research project. Research begins by choosing a research question. Next you will create a simple research plan and research log. When you have completed your searches, you will then record what you found in FamilySearch, including adding sources and new relatives to the tree, and then write a summary of your research. After merging duplicates you will be ready to reserve temple ordinances. After you've successfully found names for the temple, you can repeat the process by going back to your list of candidates for further research and begin again with a new research question. Now you won't run out of research opportunities! As you research each relative one by one, you will grow to love them and think of them as friends. As President Eyring said, "your heart will be bound to theirs forever."
Our Pioneer Ancestors
Author: Emma Hynes RiggsBrigham Young
Author: John G. TurnerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674067312
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 511
Book Description
Brigham Young was a rough-hewn New York craftsman whose impoverished life was electrified by the Mormon faith. Turner provides a fully realized portrait of this spiritual prophet, viewed by followers as a protector and by opponents as a heretic. His pioneering faith made a deep imprint on tens of thousands of lives in the American Mountain West.
Our Kentucky Pioneer Ancestry
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kentucky
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
William Kinkead was born in 1736 in Virginia. He married Eleanor Gay and they had 12 children. Later they moved to Kentucky where their descendants still reside. Information on several branches of his descendants is included in this volume. Descendants now live thoughout the United States.
Muddy
Author: Dean HughesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781629725857
Category : Clark County (Nev.)
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
"When Brigham Young summons young Morgan Davis to his office and calls him to join other missionaries in settling the Muddy River Valley (what is now Nevada), Morgan can't imagine what lies in store. He has just two weeks to find a wife and gather enough belongings to help start a settlement. As Morgan and his new bride, Angeline, travel the long trail south in a covered wagon, they fall in love and connect with the other Saints. But the desert location on the Muddy River soon becomes a physical and emotional test for all of them. Together they face difficult requests from Church leaders, multiple failed attempts to settle, deaths of loved ones, and then perhaps the ultimate challenge, polygamy. What do stalwart members do when faced with conflicting feelings between what their hearts tell them and the hard instructions from Salt Lake City? Morgan and Angeline are about to find out."--Publisher.
Hole-in-the-Rock
Author: David E. MillerPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1787204103
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
First published in 1962, David E. Miller’s award-winning work on the Hole-in-the-Rock episode was arguably his greatest achievement as a historian. One of the great set-pieces of Mormon history, the San Juan Mission had become clouded by myth and hagiography when Miller first became attracted to its study in the 1950s, and few reliable sources were at that time available. Not content with exhausting archival material, Miller contacted all locatable descendants of the members of the original party, and thereby brought to light a great number of previously unexploited sources. The Hole-in-the-Rock study achieved additional depth from his intimate knowledge of the actual trail acquired on repeated traverses by Jeep and on foot. A member of the LDS Church, Miller wrote of the Mormons with sympathy and understanding, but with a commitment as well to the critical standards of the historical profession. A must-read for anyone interested in American History.