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Author B. Heidenreich
Explains the Amy Sumner Story.
I am Bonnie Andersen Heidenreich and my great grandmother was Amy Teresa Leavitt. Her grandmother was Amy Sumner Porter. She has always been one of my heroes. Faithful and courageous, she is a perfect example to me of enduring to the end.
I wrote this narration in about 1997 as part of a presentation entitled "Woman of Faith." A friend and I wrote original music and we featured the conversion stories of several ancestors laced with conversion stories of some of the women in our ward. It was a dramatic presentation, and each woman memorized her part, telling her story. It was very well received and I was asked to redo it for the stake, and then again for the YW in the stake. Each time I inserted new conversion stories. There was a request to do it for our Andersen reunion, and so I included some of the families' original convert stories, writing them into the script. This narration for Amy Sumner was part of that performance.
I researched her life as best I could and tried to base the writing on accurate information. Although I never discovered anything that she had actually written, the facts of her life were in the various church records, genealogies, historic records and family journals of the time. It is true that she died of scurvy. My husband found another journal which contained an account written by a woman who also died of scurvy. That was the source for part of what I wrote.
I am so grateful for my heritage and for the sacrifices of those saints who found the truth so long ago. Like this faithful and courageous woman, they leave us a legacy of righteousness to follow.
Sincerely,
Bonnie Heidenreich
www.chapelmusiconline.com
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