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Show Amanda Barnes Royal Birthright - page 2 'Ihe one other line established to Jacob is the Levitical line of priesthood line th.rough the Pro'[ilet Jeremiah to Ievi. A serortd branch through Azariah, his brother, and on through their father Hikih uP to Ievi. I haw, located ance: descendants < -4France, Spa.ii countries of Sunday President H.C. Kimball preached a direct senron on "Robbing borde;ring upc the Dead. " He said it had been and was being done and must be stopped, and said i t would bring a curse on those who did it, etc. We can c This she took to rrean herself and said, "That is just what I have followed eigl' t..1-ie trouble I have had is in consequence of it. It is just done and studd.ed lineE punishnent." She resolved , however, to set herself right if possible, so quite early t-bnday norning, she went dCMn to Aunt Mary Ann Young's Archi.ba] (they were old Kirtland friends) hoping to see President Young. He The Seer, in soon carre in. have kept thi through his rr After greetings were over, she said to him, "I am glad to see who is the i: you, Brot.1-ier Brigham. I came alnost purposely to see you today. " through Anten "Well, said he, "W1at can I do for you Sister Amanda?" She tip through A said , "I don't know, but Brother Kimball preached a senron yesterline is 135 g day that went right to my heart." "Oh," he said, "W1at about?" Belie, the gr She told him, and then said, "I feel that this has been the cause daughter of J of a ll my troubles and I now wish to set myself right and do my Welch--are al first work over again. Alrra is quite young, but he is a good, explanations , steady lx>y and if you think he is old enough to stand for his rrade copies o father , I want him to do it and be sealed to my first husband." In add.it President Young arose t o depart and only said, "No, Sister titled Sureti, Amanda, you can't do it." And he left without further cererrony ancestors of ; and without explanation. "At this, my heart sank within rre. I other ten Sur, felt that I was perfectly free from my second Warren, but wondered the Bill of R what I should do now. I felt like a lost soul and that the curse is the foundai Rr()t-h P r Kimbal l rrenti0!!eci '<.a. ~s bei.~g ~as:xr-cd cut to uc wid. t.i,_10..Jc I of Iondon, wei truly rcerited the punishrrent I had received. ' I wandered about Of these rren c like a lost soul--I could not content myself at hone and ate and these and perl selpt but little. I called on all my neighlx>rs and friends, but other three. could find no peace of mind anywhere. Oh, Cordelia, I know what up, ' I discove hell is, I have been there." 11 1 I have ex ence in Volum: them or copie~ cannot supply these for co~ to crnre. .My r Mrs. 198 Pro'\i Thank you, Vir After a f ew weeks spent thus, I thought I would go again and see Aunt Mary Ann Young--this tine hoping that I wouldn't see the President . However, I had not been there long when President Young carre in. He rerrembered the way he had left her before and t.l-ie first thing he said was, "Well, Sister Amanda, what are you going to do with yourself?" She replied, "I don't know, Brother Brigham, what can I do? You tell rre t.t-iat I cannot be sealed to my first husband and you know that you unsealed rre from my second Warren, and since then I have felt as far from him .as if I had never rret him--so what can I do?" He replied, "If I tell you what to do, will you do it?" She said, "Yes." He then said to her, "Choose a ..., - -- - - -~-----· · · - -... _._..&., .._,..._ ~- -5proxy and be because that such force. proxie?" He sealed to Joseph." When he said this I nearly f ainh:::-1_ which I had seen and heard in Nauvoo carre upon n .2 wJ.tn I said, !IAlright, Brother Brigham, will you stand replied that he would. She then, for t..rie first tirre, related the circumstanceE> 0 f th vision as related alx>ve--not even having told her husband-- r ,t had tried to banish it from her mind and for years had not thous~ ·: of it. He then rerrarked, "When you are told to do a thing afte::_ this you will do it, won't you?" She replied, "I will try to." Fe said , "If you had done that in Nauvoo, I would have taken you into my family as I did others of the Prophet's wives. As I now have al l that I can do for and cannot take other responsibilities, you ITn.lSt depend on your children for assistance, but I will s tand proxy for the Prophet." W1ich he did and they were sealed for eternity . However, she never used any influence with her children about what they were t o do. She left it entirely up to t..1-iem to make their choice of parents for the hereafter. When I rrentioned it to her once she said , "I have done what I consider right and my children ITRJ.st do as they wish best. I can do no nore." This constituted a great trial for the children who loved _.1 revered their father's rrerrbry (though too young when he was ki ~Led for them to rerrember much aJ:nut :1im) for he was a gocx:!. rran , a }- · td father and died a nartyr for his rel igion. My husband being the oldest in Amanda's family felt greatly the importance of inte:r;vi ewing the family and finding out what they wanted to do or what they rould decide. They felt as though they could not decide, and so they wished to present t.~e matter to the First Presidency of the Church. My husband requested rre to go to Salt Lake City and see President Joseph F. Smith and tell him all the circumstances and ask him for advice in this rnatter, which I did. I rret President Joseph F. Smith and his two counselors in his office, and I was accompanied by Telitha C. Free Smith, wife of Uncle Alrra Smith. 'Ihey listened with interest to the narration--asked sorre questions--one of which was, "HCM do the children feel about t.1.e matter?" I told him I had heard nearly all of them say they would not desert their own father, yet not one of them questioned the propriety of their rrother's action under the circumstances. Yet I believed they would take his advice in t.li.i3 matter and that was what I was there for. After consideration, President Joseph F. Smith said, |
