In the dedicatory prayer of the Kanesville Tabernacle, President Gordon B. Hinckley stated: “May the tabernacle stand as a landmark in this community. May it be a place to remember and ponder the lives and deeds of men and women, who were endowed with a great overpowering sense of mission and who, out of love for a great cause, were willing to give their all, even life itself.” Historian Gary Boatright Jr. discusses the early Mormon settlement of Kanesville, Iowa.