Comments on: Latter-day Saint Images, 1920 (2)

By: Amy T

Amy T — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:53:42 +0000

I wonder if any of the women in the San Bernardino Relief Society picture were children of the original settlers of San Bernardino who stayed in the area and didn’t return to Utah, or if they’re early members of the outmigration.

By: David Y.

David Y. — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:31:34 +0000

Thanks for that, Jeff.

By: Jeff Johnson

Jeff Johnson — Wed, 09 May 2012 07:03:57 +0000

Brigham’s widows were very well known to the members of the Church that lived in downtown Salt Lake City. They supported each other as they got older. As a group they also had a close relationship with his children who cared for them. Even those that did not have children were cared for in their old age by the family.

By: Chad Too

Chad Too — Wed, 09 May 2012 02:22:11 +0000

I coulda gotten away with a bowtie under my second mission president, not likely under the first. Neither would have approved of the kids.

By: Maurine Ward

Maurine Ward — Wed, 09 May 2012 02:09:42 +0000

Chad too: you forgot to mention the bow tie in the picture of missionaries to Japan.

By: David Y.

David Y. — Tue, 08 May 2012 21:31:46 +0000

I’m intrigued by the photo of the “Women Who Knew Joseph Smith.” It reminds me of the group photos I’ve seen of “Wives of Brigham Young” from the 1890′s. It makes me wonder what influence or sway these “survivors” had on their surrounding Church culture. I doubt many of them trumpeted their “status,” but, in my mind’s eye, I can imagine a turn-of-the-century scene where some ward member whispers reverentially to another, “See that sister coming through the chapel doors? She’s Brigham Young’s widow!” Or some Relief Society instructor advising the group to give heed to a class member’s opinion “because she knew Joseph Smith!”

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Tue, 08 May 2012 20:28:58 +0000

That’s the secondary purpose of Keepa, Chad, to create discontented readers who now feel they were born out of time!

By: Chad too

Chad too — Tue, 08 May 2012 20:24:21 +0000

…or have a wife. Or father children.

By: Chad too

Chad too — Tue, 08 May 2012 20:23:44 +0000

Drat!!! I never got to wear cool white suits while serving in Japan. I was obviously born in the wrong era. No Brother-Brigham-beards either. Double Drat.

By: Grant

Grant — Tue, 08 May 2012 12:51:34 +0000

Scouts sleeping aside the road on their way to the Grand Canyon (!) I did that once in the 1970s somewhere near Rexburg on the way to the Salmon River (from Wyoming). It looks kind of like one of those Civil War after-the-battle scenes (yikes!)

I showed Linda the Scout Pictures (Hotel Utah, Sleeping in the Field, Wasatch Scouters) and she would sure like to have copies for her LDS Scouting Centennial (2013) collection!

Many thanks, Ardis.