| Show FIRST NEGROES TO JOIN MORMON CHURCH + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + S 4 + + S + + + + + 5 + Ar7z + t S + 4 S Th 4 4 + I + T + + S + + + + 1 + + + + + + + y 4 4 S 4 S + + + + I + + + + + + + + + + r 7 + + + I 4 NW UNCLE ISMC ALJJ3T JA + + 1 t TWO CITIZENS WHO LIVED WITHTHE ORT JOSEPH t + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 1 + + 4 + + + + + + + + Aunty Jane and Uncle Isaac are two delightfully typical old colored people who enjoyed the privilege of living in the family of the Prophet Joseph Smith and who glory in telling all about it Besides enjoying this distinction the old people figured In all the thrilling experiences incident to the gathering of converts in Nauvoo Aunty Jano Mrs Jane Elizabeth James and her brother Isaac Louis Manning traveled west from their old home in Connecticut before the days of the railroad and telegraph According to the old ladys story she became converted the first time she heard the gospel from the Mormon missionaries who had come into the state I nevah shall forgit it said Aunty Jano in speaking of her experience Such an upliftin of the spirit But I have often felt it since and so does every person that becomes a Lat rday S Saint Sant Aunty and her brother very soon after their conversion moved to Nauvoo 5 5 < and were received at cncfe into the family fam-ily of Joseph Smith Uncle Isaac presided pre-sided over the culinary department of the prophets establishment while Aunt Jane did the washing the women of the household ironing the clothes My we were so happy o said the old lady The prophet was the best man that ever lived I Uncle Isaac tells of the prophets goodness to them when they arrived in Nauvoo almost perfect strangers They I I were the first colored people to Join the church and word had been sent onto on-to headquarters of their fomlng west with a number of other converts They went straight to Josephs house and found him away Upon his return with a number of other men Uncle Isaac tells how he picked him out from among the others having seen him in a I vision Weeks before The prophet treated them to the best his house afforded I af-forded Jid in a weeks time decided to i take brother and sister to live With 1 him permanently There they remained I I until the prpphet was killed repalned In 1847 Aunt Jane came Oe the it i > Ij ih tf I i1 t tJ + plains to Utah being the fourth woman to enter the valley She came over with the family of IraEtdrecge wO months after the Brigham Young atter rsh 1 party ar rvcd rac Her tales of the trip over the plains with oent and of the expulsion Ot the Saints from Nauvoo re full of adventure adven-ture Ue S i i Aunt Jane lived with the family of Brigham Young after her arrival in Utah ro4ng a wide circle of acquaintances ac-quaintances among the pioneers She is 85 years of age but is wellt and can stilldo a hard days work Her brOther Isaac with whom she lives is 83 He f 1 is equally hale and hearty and last t week surprised some younger men with whom he was working by lifting a heavier weight than any of them could Aunt Jane is a devout Saint and is more strict in her attendance at meeting r meet-ing than many a younger woman She has had eight children nly two of i whom are living and eighteen grandchildren grand-children When In Nauvoo she saw and J handled the plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated i lid 1 < > |
