Three married couples—Jane Elizabeth Manning James (Perkins) and her second husband Franklin Perkins; Samuel Davidson. Chambers and his wife, Amanda Leggroan Chambers; and Amanda's brother Edward (Ned) Leggroan and his wife, Susan Gray Read Leggroan—were participants in the "temple pro tempore" baptismal service. Annis Bell Lucas Evans and Franklin Perkins's daughter Mary Ann Perkins James, accompanied them. The group performed forty-six baptisms with the help of white officiators. Samuel H. B. Smith baptized the proxies, and John Cottam performed the confirmations. Abinadi Pratt and Oluf F. Due acted as witnesses. These four white men were regular participants and officiators in the Endowment House in this period. John D. T. McAllister recorded the proceedings. He later became president of the St. George, Utah, and Manti, Utah, temples and worked closely with LDS Church presidents to standardize the endowment and set policy. It seems unlikely this group of African American mormons could have attended the Endowment House together without the patronage of a church leader, and McAllister may have been that leader. He and some of the other officiators were closely associated with President Young and may have received specific instructions on how to record the baptismal data that day. . . .

Ironically, as someone who considered herself outside the covenants race in 1875, Jane extended a blessing to another black woman by being baptized for her at the Endowment House. She and her husband, Frank, stood as proxies for an elderly couple, Morris and Susan Brown, who had lived in Jane's hometown.