Submitted by John E. Elggren, Great Grandson William Crawford Lewis, pioneer of 1847, was born at Franklin, Simpson County, Kentucky, November 24, 1830. He was the son of Benjamin Lewis,…
LEWIS, William Crawford
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SMITH, Amanda Barnes
Amanda Melissa Barnes was born in Becket, Massachusetts, a town that saw the births of other early Saints including Eliza R. Snow, Sarah Cleveland, and Amanda’s first husband, Warren Smith.…
LYMAN, Amasa Mason
From Whitney’s History of Utah, Vol. 4 THE name of this noted man—Apostle and Pioneer—is inseparably interwoven with the early history of Utah and other parts of the West. An…
BINGHAM, Sanford
Submitted by John Elggren, Great-Great-Grandson of Benjamin Franklin Lewis Sanford Bingham, first son of Erastus and Lucinda (Gates) Bingham, born in Concord, Essex, Vermont, 3 May 1821. He married…
KILLIAN, Captain John
When the Elders administered to me, Brother Killian being mouth, I was in bed. He poured the oil on my forehead and I jumped right out of bed and put on my clothes. On hearing that Robbins was going to Quincy in the morning, I walked up to his house, three-quarters of a mile, and went with him in his carriage to Quincy, remained all day and returned with him at night.”
CHAMBERLAIN, Solomon
One of the first missionaries of the Restoration The earliest missionary of the Church to publicly teach about the Book of Mormon may very well have been Solomon Chamberlain. Even…