| Green Flake | |
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 Artistic enhancement and colorization of Flake's portrait taken around the 1890s. | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 6, 1828 North Carolina, US |
| Died | October 20, 1903 (aged 75) Gray's Lake, Idaho |
| Resting place | Union Cemetery, Cottonwood Heights, Utah |
| Spouse(s) | Martha Crosby |
| Children | 2 |
| Black people and the Latter Day Saint movement |
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Green Flake (January 6, 1828[1] – October 20, 1903)[2] was an early African-American member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and was one of the three enslaved African-American Latter-day Saint pioneers who entered the Salt Lake Valley on July 22, 1847.[3] He was born into bondage on a plantation in Anson County, North Carolina. His enslaver, James Flake, took him to Mississippi in the early 1840s. There, James, his wife, and Green joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1844. The Flakes moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1845. Green Flake received his freedom sometime in the early 1850s[1] and married Martha Morris. Green and Martha had two children together.
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