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Subject: Newell Kimball Whitney and other stuff.
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 04:15:12 EDT

Hi all:

I just joined the group a couple of days ago. Thanks to all for the insights!
By way
of introduction, my line of descent is: (John, John, Nathaniel, Nathaniel,
Samuel,
Samuel, Samuel, Newell, John, Herbert, Orlynn, and finally my mother, Barbara
Whitney Jessop.) While browsing the rootsweb site, I noticed that the
information
on my ggg grandfather Newell is incomplete. There is some interesting history
here
having to do with the founding of the Mormon church. Newell Kimball Whitney
was the second presiding bishop of the Mormon church and was responsible for
providing for the "temporalities" ( ahem, I think that means paying the bills)
of the
early church. He had a daughter named Sarah who was given to Joseph Smith in
one of the first rites of plural marriage when she was but a girl of 16. My
gg
grandfather (John Kimball Whitney b. 9/13/1831 in Kirkland Lake Ohio) is the
son
of Newell and Elizabeth, but Newell had several plural wives in Utah and many
children. My mother has a complete record of his wives and progeny which I
have
asked her to send. I can post this if anyone is interested.

Though I am no longer a Mormon myself, I can and do appreciate the
genealogical
legacy and tradition it provides. If there is a Mormon out there... perhaps
you
could answer a question I have re: the sealings of our Whitney line to the
royal
one. I would have thought that knitting a family together for "all eternity"
would
require unimpeachable evidence as to their relatedness. It does seem at this
point,
that we are not descended from the royal line, yet these sealings have taken
place.
At what point will they "unseal" them? Is this ever done when it is
discovered
that an error has been made in the genealogy??? Just curious.

Anyway, whatever the origins of our genes, aren't they just Grand!!!!!
Anyone in
present company want to disagree? ):

Regards to all
Tera Johnson in Phoenix AZ

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