BYU Jerusalem Center
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What helped BYU get the Jerusalem Center approved?
a.
The death of a
missionary in the late 1800s
b.
The persecution
of the saints in the area
c.
Anti-Mormon
literature
d.
A drop in tithing
donations
Yesterday’s
answer:
A The day she would
enter the Salt Lake Valley
From the life of Elizabeth Carter Whitmore Casey: Elizabeth was raised in Brazos Country,
Texas from the age of four. She helped to milk forty cows every morning before
walking four miles to school.
Elizabeth married an Irishman named Flaherty around
1850 and they moved to start their own 400 acre ranch in Waxahachie, Texas. Mr.
Flaherty caught yellow fever and died on one of his many trips taking cattle to
the market in Louisiana. They had no children. Elizabeth was left to care for
the ranch.
Some years later she needed medicine for some of the
cattle and met James Montgomery Whitmore, who is believed to have been the
druggist in Texas, when he came to see how the cattle were doing, they were
married in Waxahachie in 1853 and continued to ranch there.
Elizabeth and her husband joined a group of friends to
go see missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints after
having heard the wild rumors about them. They had intended to heckle but
instead were touched by their words and in 1856 were baptized along with James’
brother and sister. They were immediately ostracized.
In May of 1857 the Whitmore’s left Texas for the Salt
Lake Valley with other converts in the company of Homer Duncan. They left their
ranch unsold and their crops standing in the field because no one would have
anything to do with the ‘Mormons.’
Elizabeth had second thoughts about returning to the ranch
and trying to sell it about the time that she had reached Ft. Leavenworth on
the Missouri River. She asked the advice of Homer Duncan and in his journal he
tells the story of praying on her behalf for guidance. He felt instructed to tell
her that she would arrive in Salt Lake on the 15th of September,
ahead of him. She was surprised and replied, “You don’t know that! You don’t
know that I shall live ‘til tomorrow morning. I will go and if I land in Salt
Lake City on the 15th of September then the work of the Lord to me
is true, and He has guaranteed my life and the day set that I shall land in
Salt Lake City and I shall know that Mormonism is true and you are his
servant.”
Elizabeth arrived in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake
Valley on September 15, 1857, ten days before Homer Duncan and just six weeks
before Johnston’s Army.
Pioneer Women
of Faith and Fortitude, Daughters of
Utah Pioneers: (International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers: 1998), 1:
522-523.
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