The Reverend Wilson
(Excerpt from William Odell Tolman: Patriarch, Genealogist, Teacher compiled by Loraine Tolman Pace, First Edition, 2009, pages 50-51). Saturday, 3 May 1930: A new Elder (Jules Gillette) came in today and we played a fast trick on him. The other three Elders Gurney,...
Elder William O. Tolman’s Early Talks, Street Meetings, and the Importance of the Spirit
(Excerpts from William Odell Tolman: Patriarch, Genealogist, Teacher compiled by Loraine Tolman Pace, First Edition, 2009, pages 29-35). Monday, 3 Dec 1928: After class I got five hundred tracts from Brother Johnston and we stamped two hundred each and went out and...
William Odell Tolman’s Call to the Mission Field and 24 Miracles
(Excerpts from “William Odell Tolman: Patriarch, Genealogist, Teacher,” compiled by Loraine Tolman Pace, First Edition, 2009, pages 19-24). I would like to record here a little detail about my call to go on a mission. It was unusual for a boy in our little ward to go...
Missionary Service at Great Sacrifice
(An account of Frederick William Larson’s missionary service as well as some of his posterity. Written by David W. Larson.) Leaving his wife and two small children, ages fifteen months and three weeks, at their small farm house just north of Oakley, Idaho,...
Phoebe Emerett Bates and Judson Isaac Tolman
(An excerpt from The Girl from the Brick House. Pictured are Phoebe Emerett Bates and Judson Isaac Tolman on their 25th Wedding Anniversary.) “Good morning, children,” said Judson’s school teacher from the front of the classroom. “Good morning, Teacher,” replied the...
Judson Isaac Tolman’s Mission
(Judson Isaac Tolman relates experiences from his missionary service) It was October of 1894 that I received a call from the Church to fill a mission in the Southern States; we had two small children at that time and were expecting our third. I was to leave in April...
Parley goes on a Mission
(Pictured left to right. Back Row: Hugh D. Pack, Calvin Christensen, Greene, W.W. Whittaker, Hoopes, L.R. Bittons. Front Row: Peter Jensen, Parley Tolman, Everett Robins, President M.J. Ballard, President Bell, Taylor) (An account of Parley Lambert Tolman’s...
No Purse or Scrip
(Hattie Stinger Tolman shares her memory of her father’s return from the mission field. William Alvin Tolman is pictured third from the left on the second row). “I remember two experiences pa told us about when he was on his mission. About the time he was...
Running Scared Aboard the Duchess of Atholl
An account from William Odell Tolman’s journal as he crosses the Atlantic Ocean on the passenger ship the Duchess of Atholl to begin his missionary service in England in November of 1928.