Joseph William Billy Johnson organizes a "Latter-day Saint" church in Ghana in 1964.
Johnson, Joseph William Billy, and Clinton D. Christensen. 2005. Joseph William Billy Johnson OInterview, Accra, Ghaana, 2005 November 3, James Moyle Oral History Program, Church History Library, OH 4012, pp. 4, 48, accessed September 26, 2022
C: Had you started with religion at that point as far as being a teacher of religion, a minister in 1969?
J: I was then in 1969, but I started the Church in 1964. But I was afraid to resign [from my employment as an import officer] because I knew I wouldn’t have enough money to keep up with the family, so it took me some time. But when I resigned she [his wife] left me and left the children with me. My boy, my little boy, was about two and a half. The only boy I had: Brigham Young. I named him after Brigham Young.
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C: So he was healed in about 1974, 1975, and then he was part of your cChurch before 1978? Then what time did he go mad again?
J: Yes, 1978. I organized ten branches before the missionaries came. There were about a thousand people.