Susan and Harvey Black discuss how Able participated in baptisms for the dead in Nauvoo.

Date
2002
Type
Book
Source
Susan Easton Black
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reprint
Reference

Susan Easton Black and Harvey Bischoff Black. Annotated Record of Baptisms for the Dead, 1840–1845, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, 7 vols. (Provo, UT: The Center for Family History and Genealogy, Brigham Young University, 2002), 1:9–10

Scribe/Publisher
Brigham Young University
People
Delila Able, Elijah Able, Ira Corey, John F. Lancaster, Susan Easton Black, Harvey Bischoff Black
Audience
Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Transcription

Deceased: Ira Corey

Gender: Male

Surname: Corey

Given name: Ira

Birth date: 5 June 1791

Birth place: Providence, Montgomery, Pennsylvania

Father: Corey, John

Mother: Howe, Phoebe

Spouse: Atherton, Maria

Marriage date: about 1814

Marriage place: Pennsylvania

Death date: 18 February 1816

Death place: Pennsylvania

Proxy's relationship to deceased:

Stephen Abbott was the Half-Brother of Ira Corey.

Date of proxy baptism:

1841

Source: Nauvoo Baptismal Records of the Dead, Book A211; FamilySearch, Ancestral File.

Proxy: Elijah Abel

Gender: Male

Surname: Abel (Abels, Able)

Given name: Elijah

Middle name: Horsford (Hosford)

Birth date: 25 July 1810

Birth date variation: 19 July 1815

Birth place: Norwich (Bozrah), New London, Connecticut

Birth place variation: Frederick, Frederick. Maryland

Father: Abel, Elijah

Mother: Horsford (Hosford), Mindwell

Spouse: Stark, Mary

Marriage date: 15 November 1865

Marriage place: of Bozrah, New London, Connecticut

Death date: 25 December 1884

Death date variation: 22 January 1882

Death place: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

Comments: Elijah became an elder in June 1836. He was an Afro-American.

Source: Nauvoo Baptismal Records of the Dead; FamilySearch, International Geneaological Index; Black, Membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter0day Saints: 1830-1848, 1:56-58; Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, 3:577; Carter, Our Pioneer Heritage, 8:511-12.

Deceased: Delila Able

Gender: Female

Surname: Able

Given name: Delila

Proxy’s relationship to deceased:

Eljah Abel was the son of Della Able

Date of proxy baptism:1840

Source: Nauvoo Baptismal Records of the Dead, Book A1, A5

Deceased: John F. Lancaster

Gender: Male

Surname: Lancaster

Given name: John

Middle name: F.

Proxy’s relationship to deceased:

Elijah Abel was the Friend of John F. Lancaster

Date of proxy baptism:1841

Source: Nauvoo Baptismal Records of the Dead, Book A100.

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