By: Ardis E. Parshall - February 09, 2017 If there is such a thing as a “standard biography” of a 19th century Latter-day Saint convert from Europe, the biography of Shadrach Jones might be its model. Born in 1832 in Beconshire, South Wales, Shadrach knew a life of labor from a very young age. While his father worked in the coal mines, Shadrach became a mason, learning to fit and mortar rocks into walls that would stand for generatio...
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