I worked with a guy once whose great grandmother or something like that ran off with Joseph Smith, one of his “wives” or something. It really upset the family at the time. Apparently he was psycho and do was she.
--FT Sent from iPhone > On Jan 19, 2020, at 9:03 PM, Dwight Giles via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > I have never been to Nauvoo but i owned a house in upstate NY- Lansing to > be exact which was,said that Brigham Young had worked on during the > building ca.1814. I spent a day in the Mormon archives in Provo Utah hoping > to establish that so I could market the house, which we operated as a B&B > inn to a Mormon clientele but the best research i could find was done by a > local Mormon scholar who documented Young's earlyy career as a > carpenter's assistant. His,mother is buried in the local cemetery there > > Dwight Giles Jr. > Wickford RI > >> On Sun, Jan 19, 2020, 7:56 PM Curley McLain via Mercedes < >> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> no. It was quite interesting in the 70s when the LDS began buying up >> parts of Nauvoo. The RLDS already owned many of the historic sites, and >> had a visitor's center. LDS sent individual families to buy up the >> places they were interested in, basically undercover. I don't believe >> any of them let on that they belonged to the LDS church. When they >> controlled what they want, they unmasked and built a huge visitors >> center. The RLDS was not happy over this. >> >> When I climbed the tv tower under construction, I think before 80' up I >> could see Nauvoo. I quit at 160 of 200' because I could see from >> Burlington to Keokuk and most points in between. Probably now 40-50' >> would be enough to see the new temple. When I climbed, there was no >> temple. Apparently there was some friction between my ancestors and >> the Brigham young group somewhere between late 1844 and 1846 when a >> group came up from the Montrose encampment to expropriate certain property. >> >>> Dwight Giles via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com> >>> January 19, 2020 at 5:51 PM >>> Nauvoo? >>> >>> Dwight Giles Jr. >>> Wickford RI >>> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
