Sunday Tidbits- Stakes and Wards

 

1.      During the nineteenth century, stake and ward boundaries were determined by what?

a.      The number of members

b.      Travel distance

c.       The number of primary children

d.      The location of stake farms

2.      During which prophet’s administration was the most sweeping overhaul of Church stakes and wards?

a.      Heber J. Grant

b.      Spencer W. Kimball

c.       Brigham Young

d.      George Albert Smith

3.      In 1899 the Salt Lake Stake had how many wards?

a.      22

b.      48

c.       53

d.      31

Yesterday’s answer:

(D) 500

Two hundred from the Big Cottonwood Mill and another 300 from the Church’s tithing granary.

Warren Foote, Autobiography and Journals, 1837-1903; Journal History, 17 May 1858; Leonard J. Arrington, Brigham Young: American Moses (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985), 267.