BYU Studies Quarterly
Article Title
"The Little Head Stones Became Monuments": Death in the Early Samoan Mission and the Creation of the Fagali'i Cemetery
Keywords
Mormon studies, Samoa, cemetery, missionaries
Abstract
When the call first went forth, Samoa was as far from people’s minds as the islands themselves are from the rest of the civilized world,” a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints wrote from Apia in 1899. “Women were among the Gospel pioneers on these islands; what they endured, their trials and their hardships, even to parting with life itself, it is a story that today dims the eye with tears. Samoa has never been a happy home for our sisters.”
Recommended Citation
Neilson, Reid L. and Marianno, Scott D.
(2017)
""The Little Head Stones Became Monuments": Death in the Early Samoan Mission and the Creation of the Fagali'i Cemetery,"
BYU Studies Quarterly: Vol. 56:
Iss.
1, Article 4.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol56/iss1/4