December 25, 1884(1884-12-25) (aged 76) Salt Lake City, Utah Territory
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Elijah Abel, or Able or Ables[1] (July 25, 1808– December 25, 1884)[2] was one of the earliest African-American members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and was the church's first African-American elder and Seventy.[3] Abel was predominantly of Scottish and English descent[4] and appears to have been the first, and one of the few, black members in the early history of the church to have received Priesthood ordination,[3][5] later becoming the faith's first black missionary.[3] Abel did not have his ordination revoked when the LDS Church officially announced its now-obsolete restrictions on Priesthood ordination, but was denied a chance to receive his temple endowment by third church president John Taylor.[6] As a skilled carpenter, Abel often committed his services to the building of LDS temples and chapels. He died in 1884 after serving a mission to Cincinnati, Ohio, his last of three total missions for the church.[7][8]
^Smith, Joseph F. (1810–1884). "Elijah Able". The Joseph Smith Papers Project. Salt Lake City, Utah. Retrieved February 15, 2019.
^Grave Marker of Elijah Abel. (Inscribed front). File:ElijahAbelGraveFront.jpg
^ abcJackson 2013.
^Smith c. 1879.
^Bowman, Matthew (2012). "Chapter 2: Little Zions: 1831-1839". The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith. New York: Random House. p. 46. ISBN 978-0679644903.
^125: Elijah Ables' Attempt for Temple Blessings (Part 5 of 6 Russell Stevenson), archived from the original on December 12, 2021, retrieved May 21, 2021
ElijahAbel, or Able or Ables (July 25, 1808– December 25, 1884) was one of the earliest African-American members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...
Kirtland, Ohio, where ElijahAbel received the ritual of washing and anointing (see Journal of Zebedee Coltrin [page needed]). Abel also participated in...
: 29 : 10 Smith was apparently present at the priesthood ordination of ElijahAbel, a multi-ethnic man with partial Black heritage, to the offices of elder...
Elijah (/ɪˈlaɪdʒə/ il-EYE-jə; Hebrew: אֵלִיָּהוּ, romanized: ʾĒlīyyāhū, meaning "My God is Yahweh/YHWH"; Greek form: Elias /eːˈlias/) was a Jewish prophet...
other church leaders close to him) ordained Black men into it, notably ElijahAbel and Walker Lewis. After the death of Joseph Smith, Brigham Young (the...
promised her that she would become "white and delightsome".: 148 In 1836 ElijahAbel was similarly promised he would "be made ... white in eternity".: 38 ...
and Walker Lewis, and others converted with their enslavers, including ElijahAbel and William McCary. Jane Manning James had been born free and worked...
were a handful of exceptions to this rule, such as some descendants of ElijahAbel, the first black Latter-day Saint to hold priesthood office. See Newell...
churchofjesuschrist.org. Retrieved October 22, 2020. W. Kesler Jackson. ElijahAbel: The Life and Times of a Black Priesthood Holder. ISBN 9781462103560...
third black man known to hold the Mormon priesthood. (The first two were ElijahAbel and Peter Kerr.) Walker's first-born son, Enoch Lovejoy Lewis, also joined...
black people holding the priesthood. However, some black men such as ElijahAbel did hold the priesthood, and served multiple missions in their lifetime...
Walker Lewis, a prominent African-American Mormon Elder. Lewis, like ElijahAbel, had been ordained to the priesthood during Joseph Smith's lifetime,...
they, essentially, founded the Mozingo family line in North America. ElijahAbel (1808–1884), born enslaved in Maryland and believed to have escaped slavery...
Garland Publishing, pp. 471–472 Bringhurst, Newell G. (1984). "Chapter 4: ElijahAbel and the Changing Status of Blacks Within Mormonism". In Bush Jr., Lester...
pioneers Mormon pioneers Mormon Trail Perpetual Emigration Fund A – M: ElijahAbel, Milo Andrus, Truman O. Angell, Israel Barlow, John Milton Bernhisel...
trader and explorer Green Flake- pioneer Jane Manning James- pioneer ElijahAbel- carpenter and church leader Gobo Fango-pioneer Joseph Freeman- first...
Americans. Jews have typically been assigned to the tribe of Judah. In ElijahAbel's 1836 patriarchal blessing, no lineage was declared, but he was promised...
Temple according to their order. March 3: ElijahAbel is ordained an elder, perhaps the first black man ordained. Abel continued in priesthood service, even...
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