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From: "jcarter" <>
Subject: [HANDCART-L] Ordained Seventy?
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 08:45:22 -0800

Thank you to Robert and Sheri for the explanation of a Patriarchal Blessing
and the time-line for the early church history. It really helps put the
migration of my LEWIS' in perspective.

I want to make sure I understand the "Ordained Seventy" - it is a church
office that the recipient holds which puts them in a position of either
authority or guidance for others (perhaps seventy others)???

Did early church membership encourage records which traced ancestral roots??
I guess I am hoping that if Lemuel LEWIS joined so early in church history -
he might have been encouraged to write his family history somewhere.

Also, New Question - but same family: Lemuel's daughter, Diana LEWIS,
according to family history married Adam COON. They had four children born
between 1854 and 1860. Then she died in 1865 and he eventually moved back
east. I believe that all children stayed in UT. I recieved information
from two sources on-line (quoting the Family History CD, I think) that
listed Diana LEWIS as marrying Andrew Boakman WILLIAMS. It appears that
A.B. WILLIAMS married Diana's sister, Abigail Celicity LEWIS, in NY and
moved with the group that included Lemuel LEWIS to Nauvoo then on to UTAH.
But then it shows a second marriage (no date) to Diana LEWIS. Everything
else I have shows that she was married to Adam COON until her death in 1865.
So, my question: Did polygamy ever work the other direction?? Would one
woman have two husbands at the same time?? Please excuse me if this is a
ridiculous question - but trying to make some sense of the data.

Thanks
Jackie Moore Carter

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