Jane Manning James is authorized by stake president to do baptisms for the dead in 1888.
- Type
- Book
- Source
- Tonya S. Reiter LDS
- Hearsay
- Secondary
- Reference
Tonya S. Reiter, "Black Saviors on Mount Zion: Proxy baptisms and Latter-day Saints of African Descent," in The Ancient Order of Things: Essays on the Mormon Temple, ed. Christian Larsen (Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 2019), 135
- Scribe/Publisher
- Signature Books
- Audience
- Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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First, she wrote to church president John Taylor. He did not allow the adoption, but six months later, the president of the Salt Lake Stake, Angus Cannon, mailed a recommend to Jane allowing her to do baptisms and confirmations for her "dead kindred."
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