I gave a talk in Sacrament meeting today. Being Pioneer day, guess what I was to talk about? Anyway, at the temple on Friday, President Brimhall was relating a story about giving service when prompted by the spirit. I had come in a little late and didn't hear the name of the woman he was telling the story about. I had never heard the story, but in the end he called her Sister Hendricks. I asked him afterwards what her name was and it turned out it was Drusilla Hendricks, our (my) 3rd great grandmother on mom's side.
So for my talk I looked her up on-line and found she had written her biography before she died, and it's on the web. This is fascinating reading. She was involved with the church almost right from the start. She was in the Missouri persecutions, Nauvoo, the trail to Salt Lake, sent her oldest son on the Mormon Battalion at age 16, all with a semi-paralyized husband and 5 children. This woman did so much, and at such a young age. Please take the time to read it for your self. If this doesn't give you the geneology bug I don't know waht will.
A Little Family History
4 comments:
How cool! Mom told me you talked today but I didn't connect the last name. Thanks.
How funny, I'm reading the Work and the Glory series and just read a whole portion on her not realizing we were related. That is awesome
Her is something interesting, I have known about Drusilla for a long time one day I was looking at the Autobiography of Stephen's Gr(I think 4th) Grandfather called "All For The Kingdom" and there were excerpts from Grandma Hendricks journal in it. Long story short. Stephens grandparents lived in Kentucky and ours in Tenn.(or visa versa can't remember which)anyway they were neighbors only lived 1/2 mile from each other. They were baptized the same day by the same missionaries and because of persecution left for Far West Missouri together also their houses were on the same block in Nauvoo. Their lives separated when they got to Utah and were sent to different places. I found that so interesting.
I wanted to make one correction Stephens grandfather was John Lowe Butler and they weren't baptized the same day but a couple of weeks apart.
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