Comments on: Your Grandmother’s Nauvoo Monument

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:22:23 +0000

Bruce, be sure to point out that the monument is of Tennessee stone!

By: Bruce Crow

Bruce Crow — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:07:47 +0000

Awesome! Our ward is having a Nauvoo themed Christmas Activity on Saturday. I wonder how I can introduce this.

By: Maurine Ward

Maurine Ward — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 02:41:00 +0000

I didn’t know all of this story, either, although I have seen the marker in Nauvoo.

By: justin

justin — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:23:36 +0000

B. Pykles’ Excavating Nauvoo book briefly discusses the 1952 request (pp. 49-50), but the lack of footnotes led me to wonder how much of it was conjecture, however plausible.

By: J. Stapley

J. Stapley — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:29:56 +0000

I didn’t know about this either, Ardis. Thank you.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:29:14 +0000

Serendipity (or is it synchronicity?) is dripping from the screen today.

By: reed russell

reed russell — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:17:15 +0000

December 8 is also the day the Joseph and Hyrum Memorial arrived in Nauvoo. (2003)

http://www.historicnauvoo.net/2010/01/joseph-and-hyrum-smith-memorial/

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:00:40 +0000

That was its name, Paul, sort of a relic, I think, of the independence of the Relief Society (it was an auxiliary, yes, but also an independent entity), as well as of the days from the 1880s on through the 1960s when the Relief Society used to take part in national and international women’s organizations and congresses and conferences.

Coffinberry, that warms my heart! (And if anybody in the know is reading this, I would soooooo love to be involved in writing that history. I don’t have a clue as to how to break into the golden circle, though, so all I can do is stand here waving my arm and calling “Ask me! Ask me!”)

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:54:11 +0000

I was surprised by the name “National Women’s Relief Society” — was the church’s organization so named at the time or was that just for the monument?

By: Coffinberry

Coffinberry — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:48:22 +0000

S’whelp me, that new Relief Society history book oughta include a link to Keepa, because so much of Relief Society history has been coming to life for me here.