By: Ardis E. Parshall - March 07, 2023 An earthquake struck Japan on 1 September 1923, wrecking Tokyo, Yokohama, and surrounding areas. Well over 100,000 died, many of them by fire. When the Deseret News reported on 3 September that they hadn’t heard from the missionaries in Japan and didn’t know whether they were alive or dead, Lucy Robertson in Springville, the mother of Hilton A. Robertson, an elder there (and eventually mission p...
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