Jane Manning James records that Emma Smith offered to adopt her.

Date
1902
Type
Manuscript
Source
Jane Manning James
LDS
Hearsay
Holograph
Reference

Jane Elizabeth Manning James, "Jane Manning James autobiography," 1902, MS 4425, Church History Library

Scribe/Publisher
Elizabeth Roundy
People
Elizabeth Roundy, Jane Manning James
Audience
Reading Public
PDF
PDF
Transcription

Sister Emma asked me one day if I would like to be adopted to them as their child and I did not answer her, she said, I will wait a while and let you consider it;  she waited two weeks before she asked me again, when she did I told her no mam! because I did not understand or know what it meant.  they were always good and kind to me, but I did not know my own mind I did not comprehend.

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