It Didn’t Come to the Funeral

During the 1880’s in Snowflake, Arizona, what one thing did not get taken to the meeting house portion of the funeral?

a.      The coffin

b.      Little Children

c.       The immediate family of the deceased

d.      Choirs

Yesterday’s answer:

D)   Charles Dickens

Many have read the words of English author Charles Dickens and his impression of the Saints aboard the sailing vessel Amazon. This passage of the Amazon, from England to America, could very well be the Who’s Who voyage of the Church. The group consisted of nearly nine hundred Latter-day Saints, including William Fowler (author of “We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet”), George Sutherland (later a U.S. senator and U.S. Supreme Court justice), Elijah Larkin (English police detective and later aide to Brigham Young), Lavina Triplett Careless (one of Utah’s leading vocalists), and the entire membership of the Cardiff, Wales, brass band. One child died on the voyage and one was born—appropriately named Amazon Seaborn Harris.

Holzapfel, Richard Neitzel, Their Faces Toward Zion (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1996), 84.