Sunday, March 17, 2013

Ancestor Phineas Howe Young and Brother Joseph

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."
   

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