An excellent article on the early Latter-day Saint practice of rebaptism is that of:
Jonathan
A. Stapley and David W. Grua, "Rebaptism in The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints," BYU Studies 61,
no. 3 (2022): 59-96
Interestingly, while serving a mission in Aintab (Gaziantep), Turkey, Joseph Wilford Booth (1866-1928) recorded an instance of such a rebaptism, two years after its official discontinuation by the Church in 1897, showing it persisted in some quarters:
January 11, 1899
(Wednesday) [Aintab]
We arose very early in the morning and
went down to the stream which flows past the city and there in the cold wintery
water Pres Maycock rebaptized Bro Garouch and his wife, Dudu, whose course of
life it seems to have been other than saintly and having repented of their sins
desired rebaptism. The place where the ordinance was performed is out beyond
the college more than a mile from our head quarters. (Joseph Wilford Booth,
Journal, January 11, 1899, in Missionary in the Middle East: The Journals of
Joseph Wilford Booth, ed. James A. Toronto and Kent F. Schull [Provo, Utah:
BYU Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2024], 440-41)
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