Jane Manning James performs baptisms for the dead in 1888 and 1894.
- Type
- Book
- Source
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints LDS
- Hearsay
- Secondary
- Reference
Quincy D. Newell, Your Sister in the Gospel : The Life of Jane Manning James, a Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon (New York City, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019), 107, 175n7; 119, 177n1.
- Scribe/Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Audience
- General Public
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On Tuesday, October 16, Jane went to the baptistery in the Logan Temple. … In the imposing font, which rested on the backs of twelve stone oxen, Jane was baptized six times: for her mother, Philes Manning; her sister, Angeline Manning; her daughter, Mary Anne James; her maternal grandmother, Philes Abbett; her maternal aunt, Dorcas Abbett; and her cousin, Dorcas's dauther, Harriett Abbett. Mary Ann had been baptized before, and Jane's mother and sister almost certainly had as well. Jane may have thought these relatives needed rebaptism becuase they had left the church [7]
[7] Melvin A. Larkin, "The History of the L.D.S. Temple in Logan, Utah" (Utah State Agricultural College, 1954), 120; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Logan Temple, "Baptisms for the Dead, 1884–1943," 320.
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In November 1894, Jane went to the Salt Lake Temple to be baptized for her niece, Mary Stebbins [1].
[1] "Salt Lake Temple Records, Baptisms for the Dead, Book D, 1894–1895," Family HIstory Library, Salt Lake City.
- BHR Staff Commentary
Note that Tonya S. Reiter gives the 1888 date as April 3, 1888.
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, edited by Christian Larsen, 129–48. Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 2019. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jmormhist.43.4.0100, 141n41, citing "Baptisms for the Dead, 1884–1943," Vol. H, April 3, 1888, includes heir index, Logan Temple, microfilm no. 177847, Family History Library.
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