Carter Family Organization Officers
William Furlsbury Carter's Original Mission Journal Digitized
Most of us have heard about and read transcriptions of William Furlsbury Carter's missionary journal. Thanks to newly released information about early Mormon missionaries here is a small portion of his journal for when he got to Illinois and visited with the Tripps, Dooleys and his brother, Phillip Libby Carter. For a older, sick guy his handwriting is very good.
The whole journal can be viewed by going to this link: https://history.lds.org/missionary/individual/william-foulsberry-carter-1811?lang=eng
Then click on "William F Carter Journal..." - it is all there thanks to his granddaughter, Margery Ann Kinder Wing who brought it in to the Church History Department in 1966 and allowed them to Xerox it and then took the journal back. Who has this journal now? That is a BIG question.
It is interesting that William spelled Philip with two "l's". The double-l Phillip is the way my parents named my brother, Phillip, as of Saturday the president of Quincy (IL) University.
ReplyDeleteJoe - I don't think spelling was a priority with our family back then. Shoot names weren't even so sacred. William was always just William Carter until sometime in the Nauvoo period when he suddenly became William Furlsbury. Go figure.
ReplyDeleteMy sister, who is doing our family genealogy, says that there were two Carter families in the church around that time, and there were two Williams, both about the same age, at Kirtland. This might explain the importance of the second name as this would differentiate between the two.
ReplyDeleteEarl - That is kind of the thought I have had all along that the middle name was to make him unique and identifiable. I know a lot about the other William Carter, and actually dated a descendant of his for a time in high school. It was that William, who came from England, who crossed the plains with Brigham Young in 1847 and plowed the first furrow in the Salt Lake Valley. Our family, for a long time, thought that this plow, which is on display in the Church History Museum, was made by our William but it wasn't as we all know he was back in Iowa at the time. Anyway, the other William moved south to the St. George, Utah area and raised his family there.
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