George Thorp

THORP, ROBERTS

Posted By: Lisa Joan Walden (email)
Date: 4/11/2021 at 15:11:38

THORP. At Pleasanton, Decatur county, Iowa, August 16th, 1888, Bro. George Thorp, aged 74 years, 4 months, and 1 day.

He was born at Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, April 15th, 1814, and came from his native land to Nauvoo, Illinois, in May 1842, and in June of the same year he married Mrs. Sarah Roberts, who has been his faithful companion, sharing with him the shadows as well as the sunshine of life. Incident to the raising and educating a large and respectable family until his decease.

Bro. Thorp was identified with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints as early as 1842, how much earlier we are not informed. But in that year, or in the following one, he left Nauvoo and moved to Alton, Illinois, where he became successful in business and held several honored positions as a citizen of that place, he having become a citizen of the United States in 1848.

In 1863, having heard of the Reorganization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints he immediately united with the same and was ordained an elder and according to his circumstances labored to promote the interests of that church.

He died as he had lived, with an abiding faith that the latter day work was of God. He was buried by the Masonic fraternity of which he had long been a member.

Source: The Saints' Herald - volume 35 (1888) p. 599 [The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints]

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