Leonora Cannon Taylor
Leonora Cannon Taylor (1796-1868) was born 6 Oct. 1796 in Peel, Isle Of Man, British Islands. She was the daughter of George Cannon and Leonora Callister. She married John Taylor on 28 Jan. 1833 in Toronto, Ontario, Upper Canada, and they had four children. She was baptized on 9 May 1836 in Toronto. She hosted Wilford Woodruff's wife, Phebe Whittemore Carter, overnight on 1 Apr. 1840, let Wilford preach at her home on 6 Jan. 1847, received a blessing from him on 25 Apr. 1867, and was attended by him in the last hours of her life on 8 Dec. 1868. She died 9 Dec. 1868 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory.
Footnotes
Leonora Cannon (KWV4-J33), “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 20 Jun. 2023). Leonora Cannon Taylor, Wilford Woodruff Papers (https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/subjects/leonora-cannon-taylor, accessed 20 Jun. 2023). “Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 21 Jun. 2023); Leonora Taylor, 9 Dec. 1868, Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 93, no. A3696; Salt Lake County Management and Archives, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah; DGS 4139616. "Isle of Man Parish Registers, 1598-2009," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 21 Jun. 2023); Leonora Cannon, christening, 9 Oct. 1796, German, Isle of Man, England, p. 39; citing Douglas, Isle of Man, Manx National Heritage Library, “Isle of Man, German, parish records,” image 59/275; DGS 4504098. "Historian's Office histories of the Twelve, 1856-1858, 1861 / John Taylor, autobiography, 1858,” entry for John Taylor, image 1/34, CR 100 93; Church History Library (https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/, accessed 16 Jun. 2023).
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Excerpt:water & also with strong drink or spirits this not by commandment but from choice We then accor ding to commandment clensed our hands and feet and bore testimony unto God against the Ben- ton County mob & also against Paris & many others who had rejected our testimony We enjo yed a solumn, spiritual, & interesting Season We retired from the water in the spirit of God & spent the night for the last time at Brother Levi Taylors & ...Dates:October 13, 1836 October 14, 1836 October 15, 1836 October 16, 1836 October 17, 1836 October 18, 1836 October 19, 1836 October 20, 1836 October 21, 1836 -
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Excerpt:Elder Brigham Young house for meeting. President Hiram Smith opened the meeting by prayer after which the Presidency lade their hands upon my head & sealed a blessing upon me President Rigdon being speaker they also sealed a blessing upon the head of Elders George A Smith & Turley. Also upon the head of Sister Young sister Tailor & my wife. If we were faithful we had the promise of again returning to the bosom of ... -
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Excerpt:LEAVES FROM MY JOURNAL. CHAPTER XX. PREPARING FOR OUR JOURNEY AND MISSION—THE BLES- SING OF THE PROPHET JOSEPH UPON OUR HEADS, AND HIS PROMISES UNTO US—THE POWER OF THE DEVIL MANIFESTED TO HINDER US IN THE PERFORMANCE OF OUR JOURNEY. ON the first of July, 1839, Joseph Smith and his counsel- ors, Sidney Rigdon and Hyrum Smith, crossed the river to Montrose, to spend the day with the Twelve, and set them apart ...Dates:July 1, 1839 -
Excerpt:by brother Hyde - they are much company - for me wish you could see them a while I kiss them every day for their pa. My dear Willford did you know that 11 long months has passed away and you have not said one word about comeing home in your letters - is seames almost an age, do tell me something about it in your next letter - may the will of the Lord be done but I hope that it will be to send you home this fall is not pray the Lord that I ... -
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Excerpt:oppen their way, brother Young has been verry sick on his way— brother Kimbal was in the state of N.Y. some where but do not know where— brother J. Page is near Lima preaching— has baptized 8 or 10 O. Pratt was expecting to start for England as soon as he has company the last that I heard of him— Brother L. White called here a few days since says that he thinks of ... -
Excerpt:I do not know as you can find out this letter for I have to write it mostly with my babe in my armes and little Sarah around me – she calls aloud for pa-pa many times in a day but the poor child has no pa to hear her. she is quite lonely like myselfe can you not tell me some thing near when you shall y come home I shall look for you in the fall. I have written you three letters before this since you left this continent and d^i^rected them ...