From my father's journal, March 22, 1934: "I went to Salt Lake again yesterday concerning my uncle William A. Hickman who was excommunicated from the church about 1868 or 69. He had 10 wives, 6 of whom were divorced from him. I saw Pres. Grant to get his sanction to reinstate (rebaptize) my uncle. Pres. Grant, A. W. Ivins and Geo. F. Richards all freely gave me permission to do his work, feeling that he had for years done much good for the church, but had fallen away. I am authorized to have all former blessings bestowed on him. Apostle Richards urges that I have these wives who left him and got divorced be resealed to him -- wherein they had not been sealed to someone else. Pres. Grant gave a letter authorization to Apostle Richards, after reading letter he turned it over to me as a record."

"May 20, 1934 -- I went to Salt Lake with my 2nd cousin Pearl H. Hyde. I was rebaptized for my uncle William A. Hickman and had all his former blessings, gifts, powers, endowments which were ever his resealed upon him. Then we had him resealed to 3 of his wives who were released from him while they lived but were never sealed for eternity to any one else. Pearl stood with me in the sealing." "I then proposed to her and her sister Eva that the children and grand children of his go with me (at least a committee) to see if we could find uncle Wm's grave and place a giant monument at his grave."

Signed

Lorea H. Blomquist

Coalville, Utah