Saints from Morgan Stake attended the dedication; among them were all three members of the stake presidency. While he was in Salt Lake City for the dedication, or shortly thereafter, President Willard G. Smith was released as president of the Morgan Stake. Presidents Smith, Fry, and Francis had led the stake for almost seventeen years. During these years there had been much illness, drought, and persecution, yet the stake seemed only to grow stronger. Endnotes 1. B. H. Roberts, A Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints (Salt LakeCiry: Deseret News Press, 1930), 5:507-508. 2. Ibid, 5:508. 3. Journal of Charles Turner, July 1,1877, copy in possession ofjerry Turner. Original in Historical Department, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Sainis, Salt Lake City. 4. Morgan Stake Historical Record, 1877, Historical Department, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City. 5. Morgan Stake Historical Record, Minutes of Stake Conferences, November 17,18, 1877, Historical Department, The Church ofjesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, p. 10. 6. Andrewjenson, comp., Peterson Ward History, Historical Department, The Church ofjesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City; History of Charles S. Peterson in the possession of Laraine Whitear. 7. James R. Clark, comp., Messages of the First Presidency (Salt LakeCiry: Bookcraft, 1965), 2:283-295. 8. Samuel and Esther Francis Family Organization, Our Heritage: Samuel & Esther Francis (Bountiful: Horizon Publishers, 1984), p. 104. 9. Roberts, A Comprehensive History of the Church, 5:508. 10. Levi Hancock served for forty-five years as ageneral authority oftheChurch. He was called into the First Quorum of Seventy 28 February 1835 when it was first organized in Kirtland. He served as one of the seven presidents of the First Quorum of Seventy and later the First Council of Seventy until his death in 1882. He attended the eighth quarterly conference of the Morgan Stake held 17 August 1879- 11. Morgan Stake Historical Record, Minutes of Stake Conferences, Nov, 17,18,1877, p. 9. 12. Clark, Messages of the First Presidency, 2:301; Morgan Stake Priesthood Minute Book, Historical Department, The Church ofjesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, pp. 1-3. 13. Morgan Stake Priesthood Minute Book, p. 5. 14. Ibid. 15. Ibid, p. 25. 16. Minutes of Morgan City Council Meeting, 18 June 1877, Morgan City Courthouse, Morgan, Utah. 17. Morgan Stake Priesthood Minute Book, pp. 12-13. 18. Ibid., pp. H-15. 19. Ibid, p. 21. 20. Our Heritage, p. 112. 21. Morgan Slake Historical Record, Conference Minutes, May 19, 1878, pp. 21-22. 22. Morgan Stake Priesthood Minute Book, p. 27. 23. Ibid., p. 32. 24. Morgan Stake Historical Record, 1877. 25. Ibid.