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Seymour B. Young's Inspiration to Name Moroni Zundel

Published October 5, 2026 at 4:38 AM

1880s · 1884
Washakie, Utah Territory

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Native Saints Research

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While ordaining Moroni to the office of seventy, Elder Seymour B. Young felt inspired to give him the new surname Zundel, after Bishop Isaac E. D. Zundel, as part of a proposal for Moroni to be adopted into the Zundel family.

In Their Own Words

“While ordaining him to the office of seventy, Young felt inspired to give Moroni a new surname: Zundel, after Isaac E. D. Zundel. 17 According to the bishop’s daughter Phoebe, Young initially proposed that in addition to taking on his name, Moroni should be adopted to Bishop Zundel as a son according to a common Latter-day Saint sealing practice at the time. — Native Saints: A Database of Latter-day Saint Native Americans, Moroni Zundel (ca. 1857–1892)”

Sources & References

Native Saints: A Database of Latter-day Saint Native Americans, Church Historians Press, "Moroni Zundel (ca. 1857–1892)". https://www.churchhistorianspress.org/native-saints/biographies/moroni-zundel (account extracted verbatim from the page's published text; research confidence: high)

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