L.D.S. Missionaries

File — Box: 1, Folder: 10

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

1: Elder James L. Lisonbee
2: Elder Joseph Standing
3: Elder Joseph Standing on mission in Illinois and Indiana.
4-5: Joseph Standing (seated), Rudger Clawson (standing) as missionaries in Georgia. Joseph Standing was later killed by a mob.
6: Memorial to Elders W.S. Berry and J.H. Gibbs who were slain at Condor's farm in Tennessee on Aug 10, 1884. B.H. Roberts disguised himself to look for the bodies of these two missionaries.
7-8: Elder John H. Gibbs, murdered while serving as an L.D.S. missionary in Tennessee.
9-10: Elder William S. Berry, murdered while serving as an L.D.S. missionary in Tennessee.
11-12: Group of missionaries. John H. Morgan seated (number 8).
13-14: Southern States Missionaries. Picture taken Jan 26, 1886. Standing in rear - L to R: G.W. Lewis, D.S. Emery, W.A. Cowan, F.R. Lyman. Seated: O. Merrill, O.A. Bates, Pres. John Morgan.
15-16: Picture taken on Oct 5, 1886 in Rome, Georgia. At the left, standing, President J.H. Morgan. Seated in center, William Spry - later Governor of Utah. Still later, Spry served as commissioner of the U.S. General Land Office in Washington D.C.

Dates

circa mid to late 1800s

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