by Delisa Hargrove | Aug 3, 2013 | Historical Stories
Ann Hartley Greenwood (1821-1897) joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1840 in England. Her family immigrated to Illinois to join Latter-day Saints. Living conditions were so bleak that Ann convinced her husband William to return to England....
by Delisa Hargrove | Jul 19, 2013 | Historical Stories
Excerpts taken from Susannah Washburn Bowles’ biography of her mother Tamer Washburn (1805-1886). Tamer joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, often inadvertently called the “Mormon Church,” in 1838 and continued faithful to the Church until the...
by Delisa Hargrove | Jul 8, 2013 | Historical Stories
Lorena Washburn Larsen, Daughter of Mormon Pioneers Lorena Washburn (1860-1945) was born in Manti, Utah, five years before the Black Hawk War. Her family belonged to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (often inadvertently called the Mormon Church). Her...
by Delisa Hargrove | Jun 6, 2013 | Historical Stories
Both of my parents, Samuel Dennis and Mary Burton White, were born in “York State” as New York was then called, and had moved, with their parents to Illinois, where in Knox County on the 23rd of August 1842, I was born, the eldest of their children. When I was two...