CUSTOMIZED FAMILY TOURS
Mormon Heritage Association offers tours customized to family reunions, extended family organizations, and the like. Several successful tours have been devoted to inspiring ancestors while recounting LDS Church history. Our unique ability to customize a tour for your group is unparalleled. Your ancestors were likely involved in these marvelous events depicted on our tours. Contact us today to discuss possible arrangements for your organization. info@mormonheritage.com, 801-272-5601, or 877-335-5601 (toll-free).
Listed below is a sampling of past events. . .
Early Apostles Missions to England - Wilford Woodruff Family Organization: September 16-25, 2007. This 10-day tour toured sites in England and Wales all the while recounting the remarkable successes of the early apostles (Woodruff, Orson & Parley Pratt, HC Kimball, etc.). Descendants, along with other interested friends, enjoyed visiting the John Benbow Farm, Merthyr Tydfil, Herefordshire, Ridgeway Cross, Liverpool, London, and many other wonderful sites. They attended a temple session together in historic Preston. All while traveling together through the lush, English countryside in two motor coaches.
MORRIS & LAURA CLARK PHELPS FAMILY TOUR: July 2-8, 2007. This 7-day family tour was customized for the descendants of Morris Phelps & Laura Clark Phelps. This group spent the morning of July 4th with the Columbia Missouri Stake as they re-lived the courageous events surrounding Morris Phelps' and King Follett's escape from the Columbia jail with Laura Clark Phelps playing a bold role in their justifiable escape. They celebrated their dear ancestor Laura's 200th birthday at her new monument in the Nauvoo Cemetery. These courageous, faithful pioneers were no doubt pleased to know that their descendants studied together the early days of the Church and their ancestors' involvement therein. Tour began in Independence, traveled in a deluxe, air-conditioned bus to Richmond, Liberty, Far West, Adam-ondi-Ahman, Columbia, Quincy, Nauvoo (Temple session included), and Carthage; then followed the Mormon Trail across Iowa to Winter Quarters with stops at Garden Grove and Mt. Pisgah settlements. Family members and friends (including new friends) joined together to celebration of and honor to these cherished pioneer ancestors.
MARTIN & NINA PALMER FAMILY TOUR: July 29-Aug 7, 2005. This 10-day family tour visited pertinent family sites while re-counting over 40 ancestors' histories, trials, and testimonies. This extended family came to more dearly love and appreciate their ancestors' sacrifice and example as they learned of their great heritage from their own pioneers and from the Lord. It was a heart-warming experience to assemble together in the Nauvoo and Winter Quarters temples for endowment and baptism sessions for the youth. Church history sites visited: Independence, Richmond, Liberty, Far West, Adam ondi-Ahman, Hannibal, Quincy, Springfield, Morton IL, Warsaw, Nauvoo, Carthage, Ramus, Iowa Pioneer Trail, and Winter Quarters.
BENJAMIN F. JOHNSON FAMILY TOUR: May 14-15, 2005. The second "Extended Family Tour" for this organization was specifically designed for descendants of Benjamin F. Johnson, but happily included many friends of the family and new friends of the family as well. The tour involved the history of Benjamin F. Johnson as church history sites were visited: Independence, Richmond, Liberty, Far West, Adam ondi-Ahman, Hannibal, Quincy, Warsaw, Nauvoo, Carthage, Ramus, Iowa Pioneer Trail, and Winter Quarters.
BENJAMIN F. JOHNSON FAMILY TOUR: May 12-16, 2004. Specifically designed for descendants of Benjamin F. Johnson, this tour involved 58 family members and friends who visited family history sites and church history sites. Author and descendant E. Dale LeBaron recounted Benjamin F. Johnson's participation and connection to early church history and its members. These descendants heard their own ancestor's words describing key events at Far West, Nauvoo in Joseph Smith's Red Brick Store, etc. Most of the group attended a very special session together at the Nauvoo Temple while several of the youth performed vicarious baptisms in the temple. Church history sites visited: Independence, Richmond, Far West, Adam-ondi-Ahman, Hannibal, Quincy, Warsaw, Nauvoo, Carthage, Iowa Pioneer Trail, Winter Quarters.
EZRA T. CLARK
FAMILY TOUR:
May 4-8, 2004.
This
special descendants' tour visited pertinent Clark family sites key to the history of the Ezra T. Clark Family
Organization. Over fifty family members and friends
visited LDS Church history sites while re-counting their ancestors'
contributions and involvement.
Beginning in Jackson County, Missouri, this tour followed the days of the early church and included
specific
information and sites relating to the Ezra T. Clark Family history in
this area. Several of Ezra's former properties were
visited by these descendants. Two outstanding Clark ancestors were honored
on this tour as monuments were dedicated in the Nauvoo Cemetery for Laura Clark
Phelps; and in Barber's Corners, Illinois, for Timothy Baldwin Clark. The
re-built Nauvoo temple was attended by these descendants in a very spiritual
session. This tour
visited the Independence area sites, Richmond, Liberty, Far West,
and Adam-ondi-Ahman in Missouri; then Illinois sites
(Quincy, Nauvoo, Carthage, Ramus, and on toward Chicago to visit
the old family farm), and flew home from Chicago.
For more information
regarding the Ezra T. Clark Family Organization, please visit:
www.ezratclark.org.
Wilford Woodruff Family Tour: October 7-12, 2003. Two years in the making, this tour visited Wilford Woodruff's roots in New England. Events covered: birth, youth, young adult-hood, conversion, missions, Apostleship, etc. Beginning in Hartford, Connecticut, then on to Farmington, West Avon and Simsbury, accounts of Wilford's early days were related and important sites were visited. Moving on to Sharon, Vermont, the tour experienced Joseph Smith's birthplace and also visited Royalton, Randolph, and Tunbridge where his parents Joseph Sr and Lucy Mack attempted to make a living. Stopping in Scarborough, Maine, the tour visited the home of Wilford's wife Phoebe's parents. Then on to Rockland, Maine, for a ferry trip to North Haven Island (Fox Islands in Wilford's day) to visit where Wilford spent time on a mission and converted many. Traveling back down the coast to Boston, early American history sites were visited (Lexington/Concord, Cambridge, etc.); then on to Cape Code to Barnstable where John Lathrop, another Woodruff ancestor, lived and contributed immensely. Over 100 descendants and friends attended this historic once-in-a-lifetime event.
Heber C Kimball Family Family organization sponsored on full bus for a tour of the Missouri, Illinois, Iowa history sites that including attending a dedications session of the Nauvoo Temple in 2002.
Thomas J. Butterfield Sept 1999 Family organization participated in a church sponsored reenactment of the expulsion of the Saints from Missouri to Quincy Illinois in 1839. Two full buses of descendants marched across the bridge over the Mississippi from the Missouri side into Quincy as a part of a parade to honor Quincy for one of the noblest acts of charity in in history. 1,800 citizens of Quincy took 5,000 sick, freezing, starving Mormon refugees into their homes an cabins and thus saved many of their lives..