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Cordelia Morley Cox, Biography of Isaac Morley

Isaac Morley, 1786-1865
Cordelia Morley Cox, Biography of Isaac Morley
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A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF MY FATHER ISAAC MORLEY, ONE OF THE PIONEERS TO SALT LAKE VALLEY IN 1848

Isaac Morley was born in Montague, Massachusetts, March 11, 1784 [1786]. He lived there until 1812. He married a girl by the name of Lucy Gunn and moved to Kirtland, Ohio. In 1830, the Church of [Jesus] Christ of Latter-day Saints was introduced in Kirtland, Ohio. In the winter, Joseph Smith and wife came to Father Morley’s and lived in his family through the winter.
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