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Rulon T. Jeffs

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Portrait of Rulon T. Jeffs

1909–2002

Rulon T. Jeffs

Rulon Timpson Jeffs was born in Salt Lake City in 1909 and died in St. George, Utah, in 2002. After the death of Leroy S. Johnson, published accounts describe him as the presiding figure in the community then organized as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Rulon Timpson Jeffs was born on 6 December 1909 in Salt Lake City, Utah, and died on 8 September 2002 in St. George, Utah.1 Published accounts describe him as succeeding Leroy S. Johnson, after Johnson’s death in 1986, as the presiding figure in the community then organized as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.3 After Jeffs’s own death in 2002, published accounts describe his son Warren Jeffs as succeeding him.4

On 9 November 1942 he signed the Declaration of Trust for the United Effort Plan as one of the first trustees. In 1998 he was a named plaintiff in Jeffs v. Stubbs, and on 3 November 1998, as the sole remaining original trustee, he executed the amended and restated declaration of the trust.

Appearances

1942

  1. DocumentDeclaration of Trust of the United Effort Plan

1946

  1. DocumentUEP trust amendment

1947

  1. DocumentLetter from John Y. Barlow

1960

  1. TalkSalt Lake CityFull meeting: General meeting, Salt Lake City · 1:48:4114:06
  2. TalkHildaleFull meeting: General meeting, Hildale · 2:26:5717:02
  3. TalkSalt Lake CityFull meeting: General meeting, Salt Lake City · 56:0314:00
  4. TalkSalt Lake CityFull meeting: General meeting, Salt Lake City · 2:35:331:53

1961

  1. FuneralFuneral of Susan Alice Bell Clark Steed, Salt Lake City18:54
  2. TalkSalt Lake general meeting11:49

He is identified as a speaker in the Salt Lake general meetings of 5 February, 7 May, 18 June, 2 July, 6 August, 17 September, and 3 December, and at the 4 December conference in Canada, in addition to the recordings listed above. See the 1961 year page.

In the 1961 recordings he is among the regular voices in the Salt Lake meetings, and he spoke at the 27 June funeral of Susan Alice Bell Clark Steed.2

Sources

  1. Wikipedia, “Rulon Jeffs,” birth on 6 December 1909 in Salt Lake City and death on 8 September 2002 in St. George, Utah.
  2. Archive recordings, 1961: speaker recordings from the 27 June Salt Lake funeral of Susan Alice Bell Clark Steed, and from Salt Lake general meetings through the year. Open the 1961 year.
  3. Wikipedia, “Rulon Jeffs,” on his succeeding Leroy S. Johnson after 1986.
  4. Wikipedia, “Rulon Jeffs,” and “Warren Jeffs,” on the succession after 2002.