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Alfred Cordon Headstone

Alfred Cordon Headstone

I am sure many of you have visited Alfred Cordon’s headstone in Willard Utah. It is really easy to spot as it is one of the larger monuments in the cemetery. Even from google maps you can see the headstone with the four markers around it.

For those of you who can’t visit the cemetery, I have made a 3D scan of the headstone which allows you to rotate and see all four sides as well as zoom in and read any markings. Go ahead and give it a spin.

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by thorsted
on Sketchfab

New Missionary Database

New Missionary Database

Today a new Missionary Database from the Church History Library will be announced during Rootstech in Salt Lake City. This new database contains information about all the early missionaries sent out to the world from 1830 to 1930.

You can search the new database on the Church History Library’s website.
https://history.lds.org/missionary

Early Missionary Database

Of course our favorite early missionary Alfred Cordon is in the Database and if full of useful information as well as links to original documents. Take a look! https://history.lds.org/missionary/individual/alfred-cordon-1817

Alfred Cordon in Nauvoo

Alfred Cordon in Nauvoo

Nauvoo TempleWe know Alfred Cordon and family spent some time in Nauvoo. They arrived April 23, 1843 on the steamboat “Maid of Iowa”. It was here Alfred, Emma and young Edwin Parker met the Prophet Joseph Smith and was able to get a little acre of land north of the temple site. Alfred built a small home on his property, but his time in Nauvoo was cut short as he was called on a mission in May of 1844.

I was able to visit Nauvoo recently and enjoyed exploring this small town and trying to imagine the Cordon family here. As we visited the different buildings that have been restored, I ran across this framed picture on the wall in the Family Living Center building.Nauvoo-Potters

If you click on the image, you can see it is a list of the individuals who were Nauvoo Potters at the time. Alfred is 4th on the list. You can have a seat on the benches there are listen to a missionary do his best to teach you about how pottery was made and used during that time.

Overall it was a fun visit. Stay tuned and I will post a follow up to this with more details about the Cordon’s home location and other details about his life there.

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Alfred’s QR Code

Alfred’s QR Code

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Some of you may have noticed a new addition to the headstone of Alfred Cordon at the Willard Cemetery.

This QR Code when scanned with a smartphone will automatically take you to this website. Steve purchased and engraved on metal from Legacy Mobile. It is affixed to the north side of the monument. Check it out next time you are in Willard!

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John Toone Address

John Toone Address

When Elder Alfred Cordon was in England on his second mission he was President of the Warwickshire Conference. He was released on Sunday, September 1, 1850. Elder John Toone had the following words to say:

Dear Brother Alfred Cordon,
President O. Pratt hath counselled thee to leave thy present situation, and to make thy journey once again across the mighty deep, to transact business appertaining to the Church and Kingdom of God. We acquiesce and quite approve the blessed appointment, for in obedience to the commands of God you will be blessed. You are a blessed man in being a messenger of truth and righteousness, as thousands yet will testify in your behalf, for in due time and course all things transpire aright. When we reflect upon the lonely situation in which you found us, and the wonderful things that have transpired ; in this, so short a time of our acquaintance, we, with reluctance say, go home dear Alfred, to the bosom of thy family, but this event will cause the breaking forth of many a tear. When we reflect and take a retrospective view of your past labours, your diligence and watchfulness to build up Zion, by aiding her with converts from this land of our nativity, we will unite to bless you in the name of Israel’s God, and pray for you a speedy journey to the happy land where dwells the Zion of our God, amid the mountains and the deep ravines of the great and everlasting hills. And when you get into the bosom of the Church of God, do tell the Lion of the Lord, that kindred spirits are anxious, yea, all on tiptoe waiting for the joyous word and conformation when we may all be gathered, and be united in corporeal bands upon the mountains or in the plains, as seemeth fit to him who rules above, beneath, around ; whose power is all omnipotent, and in whom the Saints of Latter Day confide. Tell our brother Brigham when you see him how we want the gladsome hour to come, when all the Saints of God shall be brought home. Then we doubt not that he again, as prophet of the Lord, will bow the knee before the throne of him who is almighty, and bear us up before the Lord with earnest supplication, that the time may soon be here when Ephraim’s sons shall all be gathered to the Lands of their inheritence, and there enjoy the blessings which old Jacob placed upon the head of Ephraim when Joseph brought his sons before him to be blessed. There are many things we want to know as Englishmen, but suffice it for the present. Dear Alfred, the Saints in Warwickshire will feel your loss at present, but we despair not, for we know in whom we have believed, that he is able to defend his own whatever power opposes, and we testify to all around, that we have found the Church and Kingdom of the living God. And without doubt we certify, for our eyes have seen, our ears have heard, and our hands have handled of the word of life.

The entire proceedings of the conference can be read here: Report of Warwickshire

2013 Reunion

2013 Reunion

We are making plans for a big Cordon family reunion during the summer of 2013.

Encourage all family (siblings, parents, grandparents, kids, aunts, uncles) to register for the mailing list.

We need volunteers to help with:

  • Reunion Committees
  • Searching for Cordon Descendants
  • Family Association Committees (newsletter, family history stories)

More details to follow.

-Tyler & Steve Thorsted