Mary Ann Clements blogs at Wheat and Tares. It has long been known that the story of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Wales began with the establishment of the Overton branch in October 1840. It is not as well-known that the story of the Overton branch began with a twenty-three-year-old woman named Martha Thomas. Martha Thomas was born 12 August 1816 in Overton, Flintshire, Wales. She was the oldest child of John Thomas an...
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