{"id":514,"date":"2004-03-10T12:11:15","date_gmt":"2004-03-10T17:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=514"},"modified":"2017-06-21T01:44:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T06:44:16","slug":"a-mormon-image-elijah-abel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2004\/03\/a-mormon-image-elijah-abel\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mormon Image: Elijah Abel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/Abel.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Abel.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/Abel-thumb.jpg\" width=\"90\" border=\"0\" \/ align=\"right\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nElijah Abel is generally thought to be the first black Mormon.  (Click on the picture to the right for a larger image.)  He was most likely born into slavery and escaped to Canada via the Underground Railroad.  In 1832 he was baptized by Ezekial Roberts.  In 1836 he was ordained an elder, most likely by Joseph Smith.  He was later ordained a Seventy and during the course of his life he served at least three proselyting missions.  He came west with the Saints, settling in Salt Lake City, where he worked on the Salt Lake Temple as a carpenter, although Brigham Young refused to allow Elijah to recieve his temple endowment.  He died in 1884.  Both his son and grandson were ordained Elders.<\/p>\n<p>For more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blacklds.org\/abel.html\">information on Elijah Abel<\/a> and other black Latter-day Saints, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blacklds.org\">www.blacklds.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elijah Abel is generally thought to be the first black Mormon. (Click on the picture to the right for a larger image.) He was most likely born into slavery and escaped to Canada via the Underground Railroad. In 1832 he was baptized by Ezekial Roberts. In 1836 he was ordained an elder, most likely by Joseph Smith. He was later ordained a Seventy and during the course of his life he served at least three proselyting missions. He came west with the Saints, settling in Salt Lake City, where he worked on the Salt Lake Temple as a carpenter, although Brigham Young refused to allow Elijah to recieve his temple endowment. He died in 1884. Both his son and grandson were ordained Elders. For more information on Elijah Abel and other black Latter-day Saints, check out www.blacklds.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1405],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-images","tag-a-mormon-image"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36781,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/36781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}