(Compiled by Dennis B. Horne)
On July 26,
1996, while working in the sealing office of the Salt Lake Temple, I was making
preparations for the sealings which were to take place in the evening.
I noted
that Elder M. Russell Ballard of the Council of the Twelve was to come in at
5:30 p.m. for a sealing. This is not particularly unusual for the Brethren to
come, but it was unusual that he was going to do just one child-to-parent
sealing.
There was an envelope containing the information that he would use. I made the preparations, then removed the card from the envelope. I noted that a son born in 1797 in Turbridge, Orange County, Vermont was to be sealed to Joseph Smith, Sr. and Lucy Mack. He had never been named or sealed to his mother and father.