{"id":29839,"date":"2025-04-08T14:01:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T20:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=29839"},"modified":"2025-04-08T14:34:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T20:34:13","slug":"spencers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2025\/04\/spencers\/","title":{"rendered":"Spencers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Daniel Spencer Jr was the first ancestor in my family to join the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and his descendants can be found in many places. You can read about him here<\/a>. He was a missionary, a mayor of Nauvoo, and a pioneer. During the last decades of his life he served as a stake president in Salt Lake City. One of my favorite facts about Daniel Spencer is that he was a missionary in England and visited many European countries, including Denmark, during this mission. So, Mark is following this ancestor’s path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

George Sterling Spencer was Daniel Spencer’s grandson. He built the original cabin on the land we still visit each summer which we call the Weber. Most of George Sterling Spencer’s children are listed below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This week, Mark told me that he and his third cousin in the Spencer line, a fellow missionary, have been asked to do an Easter musical number together in Denmark. They are the great-great grandsons of the two brothers I have circled. The missionary’s first name? Spencer. \ud83d\ude04<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Family history is really interesting when you begin to connect the dots from the past to the good things happening now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Daniel Spencer Jr was the first ancestor in my family to join the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and his descendants can be found in many places. You can read about him here. He was a missionary, a mayor of Nauvoo, and a pioneer. During the last decades of his life he served … Continue reading Spencers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missionary","category-temple-and-family-history-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29839"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29859,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29839\/revisions\/29859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}