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Joel Scovil

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Joel Scovil

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10 May 1844 (aged 14)
Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, USA
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Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, USA
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This special story is not directly about Joel but about his father helping someone. I think when someone indirectly helps someone it is a very special story and should be shared. Here it is:

In mid to late 1845, Lucius Scovil, who had been a baker in Nauvoo, decided to put a headstone on the grave of his son, Joel, who had died a year earlier, on May 10, 1844. He arranged with stonecutter Charles Lambert to engrave the stone, in return for which Scovil gave Lambert a bit more than four bushels of wheat. Lambert, his wife, Mary, and their three children were in dire straits, having no food in the house. He and Mary had just finished praying for help when Scovil came to their door. Of this timely visit and wheat, Charles wrote with obvious gratitude: "Thus was our prayers answered." He took the wheat immediately to Knight's Mill, He said,"and returned home with the grist (flour or meal)." He then carved the headstone, half of which still stands in Nauvoo's Old Pioneer Cemetery.

bio by: Rhonda Holton

Parents: Lucius Nelson Scovil
Lury Snow Scovil

Twin Sisters Martha and Mary Scovil
This special story is not directly about Joel but about his father helping someone. I think when someone indirectly helps someone it is a very special story and should be shared. Here it is:

In mid to late 1845, Lucius Scovil, who had been a baker in Nauvoo, decided to put a headstone on the grave of his son, Joel, who had died a year earlier, on May 10, 1844. He arranged with stonecutter Charles Lambert to engrave the stone, in return for which Scovil gave Lambert a bit more than four bushels of wheat. Lambert, his wife, Mary, and their three children were in dire straits, having no food in the house. He and Mary had just finished praying for help when Scovil came to their door. Of this timely visit and wheat, Charles wrote with obvious gratitude: "Thus was our prayers answered." He took the wheat immediately to Knight's Mill, He said,"and returned home with the grist (flour or meal)." He then carved the headstone, half of which still stands in Nauvoo's Old Pioneer Cemetery.

bio by: Rhonda Holton

Parents: Lucius Nelson Scovil
Lury Snow Scovil

Twin Sisters Martha and Mary Scovil

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