A random discovery while listening to speaker Sharon Eubanks at BYU Women's Conference. She was talking about loving and honoring our prophets. She related this incident:
Brigham Young's older brother Phineas Young was in Tiffin, Ohio, and while he was there he wrote to Willard Richards who was the prophet's secretary. He said, "I long to see the day when I can again visit my brethren and see the Lord's prophet, and hear the words of life sweetly distilling from his lips.
Give my love to the Prophet Joseph when you see him and tell him I'd come to the Rocky Mountains to see him and fight my way through an army of wildcats and Missouri wolves and live on skunks the whole journey."
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Brigham Young and His Brothers--Two of our Grandfathers!
Yes, people! Two of Brigham's brothers are our great-great-great (or how many it is for you) grandfathers. They are sitting on either side of Brigham. Lorenzo Dow Young, a younger brother, and on his right, Phineas Howe Young an older brother. Don't say it--- Phineas looks like a cross between Hitler and one of the three stooges. Don't get me wrong, and I hope he will still claim me -- blame it on
the style back then. In fact his face is quite nice if you disregard the hair factors. And I am so thankful and feel so blessed to be their descendant.
Phineas was the brother who was first exposed to the Book of Mormon and knew right away it was the word of God. He is the one who introduced Brigham to it.
The brothers took a very active role in the church's early days with the brethren. Phineas was a close friend and brother-in-law to Oliver Cowdery. Lorenzo was with Brigham crossing the plains and stayed back with him before they entered the Salt Lake Valley for the first time. Google their names for some great histories of each of them.
More to follow......and I hope I'm not struck down for being disrespectful....just wanted to be silly with my kids and grandkids. (If anyone ever reads this.)
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