Joshua Alvin Tolman’s Faith
(From a short history of Joshua Alvin Tolman written by his daughter Louisa Hancock Tolman) Joshua Alvin and his brothers filed on some land at Marion, Idaho. Father built a one-room cabin and returned to Salt Lake that fall for his wife and two children, William and...
A Tribute to Joshua Alvin Tolman and Mary Jane Gorringe
1901 family photo in Oakley or Marion, Idaho. (Standing L to R: Cyrus Oakley, Owen Joshua, Mary Alice, William Alvin, Lydia Ann, Joseph Osborn, Parley Lambert; Sitting L to R: Daniel Henry, Joshua Alvin, Louisa Hancock, Fannie Burgess, Rulon Burl, Mary Jane, Front:...
The First Marion Bishopric
Joshua Alvin Tolman served as first counselor in the first Bishopric in Marion established in 1887.