This Day In Our Family History

1721 

Doratha Sperry was born in Newhaven Towne, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America to Moses Sperry, age 40, and Hannah Blakeslee, age 39. She was the 6th of 9 children, and the 5th of 6 daughters, born to the couple. She was born to her parents only known marriage

1845

John Olpin was buried in Cambridge, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom

1852

Hanna Nelson was born in Everöd, Kristianstad, Skåne, Sweden to Nils (Neils) Olson, age 28, and Karna Palmgreen Anderson, age 27. She was the 2nd of 5 children, and the 1st of 2 daughters, born to the couple. She was born to her parents only known marriage

1863

Henry Olpin, age 57, completed his initiatory and endowment ordinances and then was sealed for time and eternity to Sarah Ann White in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints’ Endowment House, which is located at 50 North West Temple in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. This was the 1st of 2 known marriages for Henry and the only known marriage for Sarah Ann. A proxy stood in for Sarah Ann

1864

Samuel George Spencer was born in the covenant in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States to Daniel Spencer, Jr., age 69, and Mary Jane Sutcliffe, age 28. He was the 4th of 5 children, and the 2nd of 2 sons, born to the couple. He was born to his father’s 7th of 9 known marriages and to his mother’s 1st of 2 known marriages

1906

John Thompson Rowley, 35, and Lucy Melvina Golding, 33, completed their initiatory and endowment ordinances and then were sealed for time and eternity in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints’ Salt Lake Utah Temple, which is located at 50 North West Temple in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. This was the only known marriage for both

1922 

Miriam Tuttle was baptized and confirmed, by proxy, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in The Church’s Saint George Utah Temple, which is located at 250 East 400 South in Saint George, Washington, Utah, United States

1940

Arthur Alderson Rowley was born in Toppenish, Yakima, Washington, United States to Emerson Adis Rowley, age 30, and Sarah Marie Alderson, age 24. He was the 3rd of 4 children, and the 2nd of 2 sons, born to the couple. He was born to his father’s 1st of 2 known marriages and to his mother’s only known marriage

2008

Clark H. Alcorn (Ritter) completed his initiatory ordinance, by proxy, for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in The Church’s Salt Lake Utah Temple, which is located at 50 North West Temple in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States 

2019 

Jabez and Jonathan Tuttle were sealed, by proxy, for time and eternity to their parents*, Thomas Tuttle I and Silence Sperry, in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints’ Las Vegas Nevada Temple, which is located at 827 Temple View Drive in Las Vegas, Clark, Nevada, United States. Jabez was the 2nd of 10 children, and the 2nd of 6 sons; and Jonathan was the 6th of 10 children, and the 4th of 6 sons, born to the couple

Happy Anniversary!

Jacob Heber Taft and Rachel Thomason

*Per Family Search, it also shows they were both sealed to their parents 9 May 1945 at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints’ Salt Lake Utah Temple, which is located at 50 North West Temple in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. This sealing-to-parents ordinance is valid. The parents are not listed either because of privacy or because they do not match the parents listed in Family Tree

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