Jane Elizabeth Manning James
Jane Elizabeth Manning James was an early AfricanAmerican member of the Latter Day Saint movement who lived with Joseph Smith and his family for a time in Nauvoo, Illinois.
Jane was the first documented AfricanAmerican woman to come to the Utah Territory as a Mormon pioneer. With her husband Isaac James, she had eight children. Their daughter Mary Ann was the first black child born in Utah. After Isaac left the family in 1869, Jane repeatedly petitioned the First Presidency to be endowed and to be sealed, along with her children, to Walker Lewis, a prominent AfricanAmerican Mormon Elder. Lewis, like Elijah Abel, had been ordained to the priesthood during Joseph Smiths lifetime, and Jane therefore assumed that he would be eligible for temple ordinances. However, her petitions were consistently ignored or refused.
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