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Temple Work done for Beverly Yate's
(An e-mail from Betty Jo Ivie)
Dear Lynn Porter,
I am a descendant of Sanford Porter, through Chauncey Warriner, Alma, Charles Worthy and Rheuamah Walton. My mother was Rebecca Ethel, daughter of Charles Worthy and Rheumah Walton, and married Joseph Frederick Beck. I married Evan Ivie in 1957.
We are currently living in Nauvoo, Illinois.
This is our story:
Our Stake Theme this year is "No Empty Chairs", encouraging us to search out a relative on our family lines whose Temple work has not been done yet. My husband, Evan Ivie, who was High Priests Group Leader, went back to Sanford Porter's sister, Susannah, who married Abner Currier and found a great-granddaughter, Marian Currier, whose work had not been done.
In that process Evan was reading Sanford Porter's Journal where he tells the story of Beverly Yates walking through their barn on the day he was killed by a horse. Sanford and many others have puzzled why he did that.
Evan searched through the 1800 Census to find the family, who lived close to Nathan Porter in Vershire, Vermont. Then he searched the new family search and found that all of Beverly Yate's family had their Temple work done, except Beverly. Somehow he was not recorded with the rest of the family, perhaps because he died at the young age of 10 or 11. It seems the only record of Beverly Yate's life is in Sanford Porter's Journal.
So we took his name to the Nauvoo Temple on September 12 and 13, 2008 and completed his baptism, initiatory, endowment and sealing work.
Read Beverly Yate's Story
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