May 31-June 4, 1902
A successful conference has just been held here at Teasdale, Mississippi. Mission President Ben E. Rich, Conference President N[athan]. J[ohn]. Harris, and the 20 Elders of the Mississippi Conference were present.
Elder Harris and several other Elders came in on Saturday and spent Sunday with the Saints, and held their meetings, one in the morning, at which the Saints and elders bore strong testimonies, one in the afternoon and another at night, at both of which the principles of the gospel were discussed by several speakers.
By Monday all the elders had arrived, and another interesting meeting was held on that evening.
Elder Rich was with us on Tuesday and held two meetings. In the afternoon the Elders bore testimonies. They all felt well.
Elder Rich occupied the remainder of the time, and instructed the Elders and Saints in regard to their duties. In the evening he spoke on the gathering of Israel.
Wednesday morning we held Priesthood meeting. The Elders were instructed in their duties and were assigned to their fields of labor. Elders I[ra]. E. Noble, J[ames]. F[ranklin]. Iverson and J[ohn]. G[raham]. Nebeker were transferred to Kentucky. In the afternoon we held services at the water’s edge, and afterwards baptized Mrs. Frances Kendall, an aged lady. In the evening all met at the bowery, where a fine musical and literary program was rendered.
We have about 40 members in this vicinity, all feeling well. Our conference is in a first class condition, and the work of the Lord is making good progress here.
– Elder Walter Hogan
[I have tried to identify Frances Kendall. I think I have, but am not including that data in this post because I can’t be certain I have found the right woman. It should be easy to verify by the baptism date – except for the inexplicable and destructive decision made by Family Search to display the most recent, not the original, date of ordinances. When lazy descendants re-do ordinances unnecessarily, they erase the evidence that an ancestor was in fact a Latter-day Saint.]
In regards to your note about the data in Family Search: One more frustration with the darn thing. Now that I am a family history consultant, I run into this sort of thing all the time, and ward members expect me to be the referee between them and their relatives that have “newer, better information.”
The thing I used to want to find out in the Millennium was what was on the 17 minutes of the Nixon tapes, and who was on the grassy knoll in Dallas, 1963. Now I just want to read the minutes of the meetings where some of these decisions were made.