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

Mary Culmer (Simmons) History

Written by her

I was born in London, England, in 1863, the youngest of a family of eight children. When about five years of age I went with my parents to Kent, England, where my mother was born, and where she lived until she was married. We went to bid her parents goodbye before starting on our long journey to Zion; a place almost as unknown as are the wild of Africa now. Some of my memories of that time are that my Grandmother sent my sister and myself into the garden to pick some raspberries and other small fruit of which she made us a pie in her sweet clean kitchen with its sanded floor, and a Ladder to go upstairs.
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Contributing images

I’ve changed my opinion about uploading images. I now think it is better to use the “Embed” option rather than the “Pop up” option.

If you want a refresher course on uploading images, read “Suggestions for Uploading Images.”

(I’m following Terry’s lead on this, pop up windows create a mess).

Dates

I’m considering changing the dates of entries (that I have or will be adding) to be the dates of entries to be the dates of the item. (if there is a date.)

For example: Marv’s High Graduation was on Thursday, May 15, 1947 at 8:00 p.m.

This entry will be listed in the May 1947 archives, rather than the date the item was added to the website. (Notice the Monthly Archives on the right… list “May 1947”).

Please comment on the advantages/disadvantages of this.

Robert Bodily Family Photo 1890

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Front three children (left to right): Walton Edwin Bodily (b: 11 Jan 1888), Estella Bodily (b: 12 Oct 1885), Sylvia Louisa Bodily (b: 20 Sep 1890)

Left two children (front to back): Christopher William Bodily (b: 20 Jan 1884), Delecta Bodily (b: 3 Feb 1878)

Right two children (front to back): Isabella Marinda Bodily (b: 21 Feb 1882), Joseph Henry Bodily (b: 1 Apr 1876)

Center three (left to right): Robert Bodily Jr. (b: 9 Mar 1844), Harriett Bodily (b: 23 Mar 1880), Harriet Ann Roberts (b: 8 Sep 1848)

Back three children (left to right): Lucy Matilda Bodily (b: 7 Sep 1874), Levi Robert Bodily (b: 28 Nov 1870), Mary Ann Bodily (b: 11 Nov 1869)

Not pictured: Emma Jane Bodily (b: 25 Nov 1872)

Jim Nielson identified the family members in this photo.
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