| Jane Elizabeth Manning James | |
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| Born | 1822 Wilton, Connecticut, United States |
| Died | April 16, 1908 (aged 94) Salt Lake City, Utah, US |
| Resting place | Salt Lake City Cemetery 40°46′37″N 111°51′29″W / 40.777°N 111.858°W |
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| Children | 8 |
| Parents | Isaac Manning Eliza Mead |
| Black people and the Latter Day Saint movement |
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Jane Elizabeth Manning James (1822 – April 16, 1908),[1][2] fondly known as "Aunt Jane",[3][4] was an early African-American member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and traveled to Utah as a pioneer. She lived with Joseph Smith and his family for a time in Nauvoo, Illinois.[5] She traveled with her family to Utah, spending the winter of 1846–1847 at Winter Quarters, and was among the first of the pioneers to enter the Salt Lake Valley in 1847.[6] As a black woman, Jane was not allowed to enter the temple during her lifetime and petitioned the First Presidency of the church multiple times to be endowed and sealed. As a result of her requests she was adopted as a servant into the family of Joseph Smith through a specially-created temple ceremony. She was posthumously endowed by proxy in the Salt Lake Temple in 1979.[7]
- ^ Carter, Kate B. The Story of the Negro Pioneer. Harold B. Lee Library; Provo, Utah: Utah Printing. p. 9.
- ^ "Death Certificate". State of Utah. April 17, 1908. Archived from the original on August 11, 2011. Retrieved December 14, 2009.
- ^ "Document 7: Minutes of a Meeting of the Council of the Twelve Apostles" (January 2, 1902) [Textual record]. A Test of Faith: Jane Elizabeth Manning James and the Origins of the Utah Black Community, Series: MSS SC 1069. Provo, Utah: L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.
- ^ Mueller 2017.
- ^ Wolfinger 1893.
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:0was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Bringhurst, Newell G.; Smith, Darron T., eds. (2004). Black and Mormon. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-02947-X. ProQuest 2131367301 – via Google Books.