John Dodds Telford is shown as having multiple wives.
“The many
wives of John Dodds Telford”
Charlot
Angeline Baker, Dolly Ann Coultrin, Maria Coltrino, Emeline Seely Baker, Sarah
Ann Barker, Deborah Elizabeth Walker, Hannah Richmon, Nancy Coltrin, Clara W
Tilbetts , Anna Walker, Georgia Bradley
Curry, Lucinda Sproat Rosanna Tebbets,
Thankful Cotton Marinda Colton and Caroline Colton.
I wrote
this in the notes on John’s record in my database.
“The
history that I have of John Dodds Telford lists only his wife Sarah Matilda
Coltrin. He was not married to any of these other women while they were living.
All were sealed to him posthumously. There have been disputes placed on these
marriages, but they fall into the same category as the sealings of the Cotton
girls to Brigham Heber Telford and Erastus Rowe Gee. We will have to wait for
the millennium to get the parties involved to come to an agreement. From NFS
Support is this explanation: 'For this period of time, this was not an unusual
practice. We have records of men in the early church sealing as many as 200
women to them. It was from their point of view to provide the blessings of
exaltation to those persons.'”
I removed
the marriage relationship to the following women.
Georgia Bradley Curry
Maria Coltrino
Dolly Ann Coultrin
Hannah Richmon
Deborah Elizabeth Walker
Sarah Ann Barker
Emeline Seely Baker
Rosanna Tebbets
Marinda Colton
Thankful Cotton
Caroline Colton
Charlot Angeline Baker
Lucinda Sproat
Anna Walker
Nancy Coltrin
These women still show up in the sealings to spouse
information in the Family Tree data, but are not visible to non-members of the
church.
I added a death date and place to John Dodds Telford’s
Record in Family Tree to replace deceased.
The next record that I addressed was that of Brigham Heber
Telford.
He had two wives sealed to him posthumously.
Thankful Cotton and Hanna Cotton
These were removed in a similar manner
Now Brigham Heber Telford has only one wife Emma Gee,
Lysander’s daughter.
WOW, good job, Laurence.
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