The framework for these biographies is Wilford Woodruff's dream or vision about the Founding Fathers and his need to do their temple work in the brand new St. George Temple. He also had the work done for fifty eminent men of the world, and he noted in his diary that “Sister Lucy Bigelow Young went Forth into the font and was Baptized for Martha Washington and her family and seventy (70) of the Eminent women of the world.”
The series highlights 61 amazing women from the frontier community of St. George, Utah, who helped Wilford Woodruff complete the project. It also tells the story of the women whose work was done.
This series is being published at Keepapitchinin: The Mormon History Blog.
Since the subject of baptisms for the dead gets some press from time to time, I will mention that church policy is, and has been for years, that church members should do the temple work for their own ancestors and family, and close personal friends with the permission of their immediate families.
Introduction: The Eminent Women of the St. George Temple
Martha Washington and Lucy Bigelow Young
Ann Fairfax Washington Lee
Susanna Mehitable Rogers Sangiovanni Pickett Keate
Anna Charlotte Eldridge Hinkle Chidester and Charlotte Corday
Mary O'Connell
Ann Crosby Thomas
Christiane von Goethe
Roseinia (Rose) Sylvester Jarvis
(Extra post) The Sylvesters: The Fire and Light Was Always Free
(Extra post) Marinda Redd Bankhead: A Slave in Zion
Isabell Hill Romney Platt and Charlotte von Schiller
(Extra post) A Brief Guide to Mitt Romney's Polygamous Heritage
Mary Lockwood Ross Kemp and Lady Sydney Morgan
(Extra post) Childhood Memories (Seth Austin Pymm and Eliza Dent Pymm)
Matilda Hoffman
Eliza Ann (Grazen) Brace Lund
(Extra post) Behind the Scenes at the Eminent Women Project
(Extra post) Hark (Lay) Wales: A Slave in Zion
Mary Parker Chidester
Catharine Maria Sedgwick
(Extra posts) Cyrus Hubbard Wheelock Week
(Extra post) A Response to the Salt Lake Tribune on Utah's Dixie and Slave Culture
Caroline Blake Hardy
Jane Mary Nugent Burke
Jannett Potter Oxborrow
Mary Phillipse
