Talk:Isaac Morley

Infobox

I disagree with removing the stake president succession box mainly because at the time this office was the de facto leader in the area, which may be notable. HOWEVER, I don't believe Morley was ever officially a stake president, so if a box is kept it ought to be modified. I don't think it was a "stake" when he was the leader out there, it was some kind of mega branch. I think there may be three or four significant people that may warrant whatever succession box might come out of this. These were the de facto leaders (in succession) over the area through about the 1880s. I can't remember all their names, but it's at least got to be Morley, Welcome Chapman, and Canute Peterson. I'm pretty sure there's someone between Peterson and Chapman. Any thoughts? --TrustTruth 17:56, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

The Sanpete County infobox better meets the need expressed above than the succession box did. Stake president is such a common position in the LDS faith that it really isn't notable in and of itself. What was really being expressed in the succession box was that these men where notable in their community, and the Sanpete County infobox handles that much better. -- 12.106.111.10 01:55, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Wives

Regarding the wives of Isaac Morley, more detailed research (preferably with some solid evidence to back it up!) is required. As he was a pre-declaration LDS practitioner of polygyny, it should be pointed out that wives Abigail Leonora Snow and Hannah Blakesley Finch were taken by him sometime in 1844, probably on personal approval of Joseph Smith Jr. Hannah Knight Libby divorced her husband of 40 years to be sealed to Morley in the Nauvoo Temple on 22 Jan 1846 (Temple Book "A", cited IGI, also numerous published family histories, Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah). Morley followed the law of adoption in having numerous other LDS members sealed to this Hannah and himself (following their second anointing also in the Nauvoo Temple; see references to children of MORLEY Isaac = Hanna on IGI). Harriet Lucinda Cox and Nancy Ann Bach Buchanan, another divorcee, were sealed to Morley on the same day (22 Jan 1846) as plural wives. Ann Dayer Spooner, another divorcee, was sealed to Morley on 11 Mar 1856, presumably at the Endowment House (Temple Book "A", cited IGI). No positive identification of Hannah Sibley has been made; best guess is that she was a childhood friend, dates 1796-1881, and with whom Morley never had a relationship in life; this could be a posthumous (necrogyny or necromony) sealing in the Manti Temple only provided by his descendants. Footnote for some of these associations may be found in Brown, Nauvoo Sealings Adoptions and Anointings, and someone with access to a copy should note page numbers. Genehisthome (talk) 07:55, 27 December 2010 (UTC)