Elvira Egbert (1 results)

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 30pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] in bright green saddle-stitched wraps. Faint smudge to front wrap. A selection of quotes from the minutes of "various auxiliary organizations of the Church in Fairfield [Utah]," followed by transcriptions of patriarchal blessings. Elvira Egbert Carson, Emma Melvina Partridge Carson, and their husband John Carson were all the children of early converts. They had fifteen to twenty children between them. "At one meeting [of the Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Association] Sister A. Young read the revelations on celestial marriage to the young ladies. Then "'Sister Elvira Carson spoke to the sisters and bore her testimony to what had been read and told the young sisters that when they got married to be sealed by the Holy Spirit of Promise and by those who have a right to seal, for if they did not when we were dead no one could do it for them when they had the chance to do it for themselves, and gave them (other) good advice."'.…