Category: Morley

Exploring: Children in Early Kirtland

Isaac Morley and his family joined the Church just thirteen days before Cordelia, his next-to-the-youngest daughter, was seven years old. In her journal, she tells about a time when her older sister Philena asked Joseph Smith to help her carry a large trunk to another room. The Prophet, always happy to help people, quickly went to move it, saying, “Yes I will, with all my heart and part of my muscles.”
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More on Isaac Morley

“Comment,” Ensign, Feb. 1980, 70

Thank you for your mention of the steadfast Isaac Morley in the January 1979 Ensign (p. 31). Isaac joined the Church in 1830, and he was Edward Partridge’s first counselor in the first bishopric of the Church from 1831 to 1840. The Prophet lived in Isaac’s home for months at a time and was hidden there from the mobs. In Utah, Isaac Morley was sent at the head of families that settled Manti, Utah. He was so kind and gentle that white man and red man alike called him Father Morley. He was a member of the first Utah state legislature and was grand marshal of the first “Days of ’47” parade in Salt Lake City.

Wilma Morley Despain
Alpine, Utah