Addendum

Records made available to us recently by the Family and Church History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints provide information that more definitively identifies the dates of baptism for Philippe Cardon and his wife, Marie.

Records for the Endowment House in Salt Lake City for Sunday, November 16, 1862 provide historical and ordinance information for those being endowed that day (Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, Endowment House, FHL film 183404). The sheet recording the names of the males being endowed lists Philip Cardon as the 16^th name, born 28 Sep 1801 in Pinerolo, Piedmont, Italy, baptized in “June 1851.” The sheet recording the names of the females being endowed lists Mary Cardon as the 22^nd name, born 15 May 1798 in Pinerolo, Piedmont, Italy, baptized in “1852.” (Although not the subject of this addendum or the earlier paper, it should be noted that the dates of birth shown for Philippe and Marie in the Endowment House records are close, but do not match their dates of birth recorded in other genealogical records.)

This baptismal information fits within the parameters discussed in my earlier paper[1] and resolves the confusion discussed in that paper created by the Italian Mission Records showing for Philippe a priesthood ordination date of 5 Oct 1851 and a previously confusing subsequent baptismal date of 2 Jan 1852.

According to the Endowment House records, Philippe was baptized in June 1851 and Marie was baptized in 1852. According to the Italian Mission Records, Philippe was ordained a Priest on 5 Oct 1851 and his wife was baptized on 2 Jan 1852. Perhaps Philippe officiated in Marie’s baptism that day in Italy, thus resulting in his name also being recorded on the mission records. In any event, the Salt Lake City Endowment House records definitively state his baptismal date as June 1851. This information was presumably provided to the recorders at the Endowment House by Philippe, himself. The June 1851 date clearly resolves the earlier baptism/priesthood ordination confusion.

[1] In the final sentence of the penultimate paragraph on page 6 of my previous writing entitled, “Philippe Cardon, Baptism and Ordination Dates, and the Three Visitors,” I made the following misstatement: “We may conclude with some degree of certainty, however, that the date of [Philippe’s] baptism was sometime between August 1851…and January 1852….” The first date should have been stated as May 1851. This is clear from the earlier, more detailed analysis of the writing that I was attempting to summarize. This error resulted from using the latter date identified in the penultimate paragraph of page 3 (August 1851) rather than the earlier date (May 1851) stated in that same paragraph. Since there were no recorded baptisms in the area between May 1851 and August 1851, it would have been more logically accurate to use the earlier rather than the latter date in the summary statement. The more detailed writing, however, does make the May 1851 date clear and this new information of Philippe’s June 1851 baptismal date fits nicely within the earlier identified parameters.