Talk:Elijah Abel

message: I assume his temple work has been completed.  This should be included in the article. Bytebear 19:22, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Temple Work 

message: This article needs citations. Bytebear 19:22, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations 

message: The article says he was one-eighth black but he doesn't look it. Is that correct? It definitely needs a citation. mdclxvi (talk) 00:26, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree it need a citation. But note that it's only a drawing. SpencerT♦C 00:27, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ancestry 

message: There's a claim on :Image:Elijah Abel drawing.png that this is not actually a drawing of Elijah Abel.  If this is correct, the captions here and on other pages that use this image need to be corrected. -- Beland (talk) 12:17, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: See .  It's definitely a copy of Durieux's sketch "He Believes Everything" as found in "Gumbo Ya-Ya".  --dave pape (talk) 20:13, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Accuracy of drawing 

message: "receive the priesthood.Page 46 of The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith Bowman, Matthew (2012). Random House. "
See Google Books 
This reference also states Abel was not allowed in Temple do to his skin color.  That would be notable for the article.  108.195.136.157 (talk) 07:49, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Here maybe a place to start; Why did the "Mormon" church not allow black people to be priests? from 3 months ago on Yahoo! Answers  99.181.132.254 (talk) 05:04, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Priesthood reference removed? 

message: I tried to create a find-a-grave memorial for Elijah Abel, but I was unable to confirm that he is buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery - or at any other cemetery in Utah, for that matter.  He is not listed in the Utah Division of State History Cemeteries and Burials data base, and the sextant's office at the Salt Lake Cemetery has no record of his burial.  The flora around the gravestone shown in the photograph appended to this article may be consistent with that seen at the Salt Lake City Cemetery, but not enough of the surrounding topography is visible to verify the location.  I will leave the find-a-grave memorial in place until independent verification of Elijah's burial site is obtained.  I can be contacted at wms1110@earthlink.net.
:There already is a find a grave page for him.  See: .  And the Utah Division of State History has him buried in the Salt lake cemetery.  See: --ARTEST4ECHO (talk/contribs) 17:38, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Burial 

message: In both 2013 and 2014 biographies of Elijah Abel were published. I have mentioned them in the article, but it would probably be an even bigger improvement to incorporate their finds in the article. This way we can have inclusion of the most recent understandings of Able in the article.John Pack Lambert (talk) 17:19, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent scholarship 

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message: According to the article, Elijah Abel's paternal grandfather was a Member of Parliament named Joseph Abel. I was attempting to find this individual and link to them, but my searches are coming up empty. I checked the History of Parliament website, which should have all MPs during the relevant time period, and there doesn't seem to be an MP by that name. See here for MPs with A last names during 1820-1832; here for 1790-1820; here for 1754-1790; and here for 1715-1754, which would presumably be the earliest for a grandfather of someone born in the early 19th century. There is a Richard Abell (1688-1744), but other than that no one of that last name or its variants shows up as an MP. Other than the handwritten note linked to in the article, is there any independent source attesting to the existence of this Joseph Abel? PohranicniStraze (talk) 04:15, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Joseph Abel, MP?