Featherston Family, Erstwhile Emigrants
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One of the frustrating things about tracking emigrating members is the increasing tendency towards mobility. In today's world we will drive or fly across the country for a wedding, or a funeral, or even a vacation. Some of us will do it without much thought, while for others it might be a considerable financial outlay. A hundred years ago the cost was much greater, when compared to average income ..read more
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John & Rebecca Denton: Repeated Returnees
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John & Rebecca Denton Family: Back - L to R: Ezekiel, Robert, Sam, Alma From - L to R: John, Rebecca, Dora John & Rebecca joined the LDS Church on February 22nd, 1882. The were part of the Cedar Creek Branch and had been taught by Elders Robert Spence and Daniel R Bateman. Two years later in March 1884, the family emigrated to Colorado. John's parents had emigrated to Colorado in November ..read more
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Katherine Alexander and Her Return from Gathering
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3y ago
There were a number of people who joined the LDS Church that decided to go west. Following the doctrine of gathering they moved their families to where the other Latter Day Saints were living. A few, for a variety of reasons decided that after having gathered that they wanted to return home. In the case of my research that meant coming back to Tennessee. In this project I have identified a ..read more
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The Returnees: A Project to Identify Why Some Converts Wanted to Return Home
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3y ago
Sometimes when a convert moves west to join the saints, something changes their mind and they return home. In some cases we might get to know the thought process behind their decisions. In most cases, however, We are left with few clues to understand their decisions. I have seen other families return for financial reasons. Finding work and starting over turned out to be too much. For a lucky few ..read more
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Middle Tennessee Baptismal Record - Lessons Learned
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3y ago
Nestled in the family search catalog is something called the Record of Members. It is a location specific, hand written record of people who joined the LDS Church. To find it you have to know where you want to look. In my case it is Tennessee. There are a few of them for Tennessee, which are the only ones I have looked up. There is an East Tennessee one and a Southwest Tennessee one. But the big ..read more
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Baptisms in 1918 by County
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3y ago
It may not look like a lot, but baptisms in Tennessee were picking up. Yes, there was still a war going on. But that was looking like it was coming to a close, which it did in November. True, there was also the Spanish Flu going around. In fact, in October 1918, just before the war ended, Nashville would see one of the largest outbreaks of the flu in the nation. But there were some positive ..read more
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Alfred Douglas Young - Part 5 Leaving Tennessee
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3y ago
[This is a continuation of the Autobiography of Alfred Douglas Young, quoted and summarized from his recollections in 1888.] My brother William and myself returned to our homes in west Tennessee [Gibson county]. We continued to preach to some in that region and baptized quite a number of persons. Sometime in April my brother and myself arranged our affairs to gather to Nauvoo. In the midst of ..read more
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Alfred Douglas Young - Part 4 Seeds of Misunderstanding
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3y ago
[This is a continuation of the Autobiography of Alfred Douglas Young, quoted and summarized from his recollections in 1888.] Alfred and Billy Young arrived at area of their relatives home, in present day Putnam County, and met a young man who while visiting a friend near Nauvoo had already "...been baptized, ordained an elder, and sent back to his friends to preach the gospel..." His name was ..read more
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Alfred Douglas Young - Part 3 Raised from the Dead
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3y ago
[This is a continuation of the Autobiography of Alfred Douglas Young, summarized from his recollections in 1888.] When Alfred Young, Billy Young, and Daniel Hunt arrived in Smith County they first stopped they in the home a "Mr" Hunt, a cousin of Daniel Hunt's. Mr Hunt, who I have not been able to identify, was not friendly with them at first but tolerated their religion because of his relation ..read more
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Alfred Douglas Young - Part 2 Evil Spirits
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3y ago
[This is a continuation of the Autobiography of Alfred Douglas Young. Written from his recollections in 1888. with some annotations added by me in square brackets] Two days after we arrived among our friends near Springfield in [Robertson] County about 25 miles north of the city of [N]ashville. We were hospitably received by a Mrs. [Sarah] Dorris who was my aunt. She had heard something about ..read more
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