Saturday, July 18, 2009




After the temple tour, we walked over to the North Cemetery next door to the temple. We took pictures of the memorial to Joseph and Emma’s twins who were born and died on the Johnson Farm. Mike also found the graves of John and Elsa Johnson who owned the Johnson Farm. I found the grave of Parley P. Pratt's wife Thankful. What a cute name. Next we went to the site where of the Isaac & Lucy Morley Farm. In its day the farm was large and productive. The Morley’s offered shelter to anyone who was passing through town or to people who needed a temporary home while they were building their own. Isaac was known around town as “Father Morley” because he tried to take care of everyone, even building a school house for the children and hiring a teacher for them. Thanks to the powerful preaching of Parley P. Pratt and his three missionary companions, the Morleys and many of the families living on their farm joined the church. Today the Church owns only a small piece of what was the Morley farm, a wooded hill on which the school house resided. At one point Joseph preached in that school house during the Priesthood session of the first conference of the church

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