DOCSLIB.ORG

Jacob and Sarah Scott Family History

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Jacob and Sarah Scott Family History TTHHEE JJAACCOOBB AANNDD SSAARRAAHH WWAARRNNOOCCKK SSCCOOTTTT FFAAMMIILLYY 11777799--11991100 BY JAMES WESLEY SCOTT Fourth Great -Grandson of Jacob Scott Written June 2002 CONTENTS 3 INTRODUCTION 4 ABBREVIATIONS, INDEX TO PHOTOGRAPHS P. JACOB SCOTT & SARAH WARNOCK 5 History 5 Origins of the Scott Family 6 Conversion to Mormonism 8 Rebellion and Apostasy Under Isaac Russell at Far West 10 Nauvoo: Tragedy, Disappointment, and Division 11 Jacob Scott Ordained a Teacher 11 Isaac Russell: The Far West Letter 12 Letter from James Mulholland to Isaac Russell 13 Letter from Jacob Scott, Sen. to Joseph Smith, Jun. 13 Jacob Scott, Sen.: Nauvoo Letters 25 “Hiram Smith” Poem by Jacob Scott, Sen. ANN SCOTT & CHARLES DAVIS 1. 26 History 27 Property Sale Record 28 Note from Joseph Smith III to Ann Scott Davis 28 “Spiritual Reminiscenses in the Life of Sister Ann Davis” 33 Obituary for Ann Scott Davis 33 Obituary for Charles Davis JANE SCOTT & ISAAC ASKIN 2. 34 History 35 Obituary for Jane Scott Askin MARY SCOTT & WILLIAM WARNOCK 3. 36 History 37 Mary Jane Warnock Letter 38 William and Mary Scott Warnock Affidavit 39 Obituary for William Warnock 39 Obituary for Mary Warnock Scott JOHN SCOTT & ELIZABETH MENEARY 4. 40 History 47 Patriarchal Blessing given by Joseph Smith, Sen. to John Scott 47 Journal Excerpts, 1847-1848 (States Mission) 49 Journal Excerpts, 1855-1856 (Irish Mission) 52 Documents registering John Scott as a United States Citizen 53 Confrontation between John Scott and Stephen Markham 54 Photograph: Sons of John Scott and Elizabeth Meneary 1 ISAAC FRANKLIN SCOTT & SARAH SOPHIA HALL 5. 55 History 57 Letters, 1843-1860 69 Note Written by Isaac F. Scott to the Saints’ Herald 69 Letters: Joseph Smith III to Isaac F. Scott 70 Obituary for Isaac Franklin Scott 70 Obituary for Sarah Sophia Hall Scott 71 Excerpts from “History of Isaac Franklin Scott” by Alma Brookover SARAH SCOTT & JAMES MULHOLLAND, ALEXANDER MULLINER 6. 73 History 74 Letter from Sarah Scott to William and Mary Warnock 75 Obituary for Sarah Scott Mulholland Mullinder JACOB SCOTT, JUN. 7. 76 History 76 Letter to William and Mary Warnock ROBERT THOMAS SCOTT & BE-MASH-I-KWE (KATE) 8. 78 History 80 APPENDIX A: Family Genealogical Data 92 APPENDIX B: Ancestry of the Author 2 INTRODUCTION Since the age of fifteen I’ve been involved in researching my family’s history. At that time, my great-aunt Edith Colburn Scott was organizing the monumental task of tracking down the entire family in order to publish an official history. Edith is gone now, but her two-volume History and Descendants of Jacob Scott – John Scott 1782-1996 (hereafter HDJS) is the foundation for my shorter work. I chose to write about the first Scott family that we know of. Perhaps this is because they were the first known Scotts among my ancestors. Then again, perhaps it was because the family lived during such an extraordinary time. Religious and political fervor characterized the age, and each individual in the family reflected a slightly different angle on the vast prism of the American frontier and the Mormon movement. The Scotts represent a fascinating cross-section of the period. They have much to teach their modern descendants about dealing with life’s challenges. What we learn, both from their successes and their failures, will help us to carry on the legacy they began. In each individual’s history, I have included two sections: the first is a biographical sketch, including details of that person’s marriage and children and providing basic facts relative to other members of the family. The second part of each history is the Documents section, where I have included all of the historical documents that I believe are important in understanding that person’s life. Often these document sections will be the most interesting to my readers, since they give a first-hand view of each individual’s character and history. Some smaller documents and excerpts from relevant materials are included in footnotes. Whenever I have had access to original letters and manuscripts, the authors’ spelling, punctuation, and underlining are preserved. At the conclusion of the work, I have included a section giving the basic biographical data of each individual in the family. I am indebted to the staff of Brigham Young University’s L. Tom Perry Special Collections in the Lee Library at Provo, Utah, as well as to the Temple Library at the Community of Christ headquarters in Independence, Missouri. Both libraries provided invaluable archival materials and assistance in researching the history of the family. I would love to hear from any family members or friends who have corrections or additions to this history. James Wesley Scott c/o The Scott Family 3920 N. Garry Road Otis Orchards, WA 99027 RIGHT: The author on Mullholland Street in front of the newly-restored Nauvoo Illinois temple. Mullholland Street was named after James Mulholland, an early member of the Scott family. 3 Abbreviations HC History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Utah Mormons). HDJS History and Descendants of Jacob Scott – John Scott 1782-1996, ed. by Edith Colburn Scott. LDS Latter-day Saints (also Latter Day Saints); followers of Joseph Smith, Jun. RLDS Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, now officially the Community of Christ. SH Saints’ Herald, a publication of the RLDS Church (Community of Christ). BYU Brigham Young University, official educational institution of the LDS Church. Located in Provo, Utah. Index to Photographs 6 Ebenezer Hall, home of Jacob and Sarah Scott in Canada 25 “Hiram Smith” Poem by Jacob Scott, Sen. (photocopy) 36 William Warnock, photograph, ca 1871 36 Saints’ House in Lamoni, Iowa; postcard ca 1900 40 John Scott photograph 40 Elizabeth Meneary photograph 41 “Last Public Address of Lieut. General Joseph Smith” 54 Photograph: Sons of John Scott and Elizabeth Meneary 55 Isaac Franklin Scott photograph 55 Sarah Sophia Hall Scott photograph 78 Mary Jane Scott photograph, daughter of Robert Thomas and Kate Scott 91 Scott ancestors of the author 4 JACOB SCOTT, SEN. SARAH WARNOCK 1782-1845 1779-1841 Origins of the Scott Family The ancestors of Jacob Scott descended from Clan Scott, an ancient tribe living in southern Scotland around the towns of Hawick, Selkirk, and Melrose, and centered at Bellendain. This area is known as the Borders, and lies within the Lowlands of Scotland. The Scotts were one of the six major riding Clans of Scotland and one of the most powerful families in the entire Borders, reaching their peak in the 16th century. Border clans are more like loose family associations today than those from the Scottish highlands. Early records spell only one t; use of a second t became common in the 17th century to distinguish a member of the Scott family from “one from Scotland.” In the early 1600s, the English crown sent many Scotch Presbyterian settlers to occupy lands taken from Irish Catholics in northern Ireland. More than 50,000 Scots eventually settled in the Irish county of Ulster, displacing the island’s native inhabitants. The ancestors of the Scott family came to Ireland during this period. Jacob Scott was born August 12, 1782, in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. While uncertain, some family researchers believe that his parents were James and Sarah Scott from County Down. Jacob grew up in County Armagh and received a Ages of the Scotts thorough British education. Sarah Warnock was born August 10, 1779 in Armagh, upon their the daughter of John and Jane Abbott Warnock.1 Like the Scotts, the Warnocks emigration to were Scotch Presbyterians who had settled in Ireland. Canada: Jacob and Sarah were married by the Reverend Thomas Cummings on Jacob, 36 June 5, 1804 in the First Presbyterian Church of Armagh. Jacob was twenty-one Sarah Warnock, 39 and Sarah was twenty-four. Nine months later their daughter Ann was born at Ann, 14 Armagh. In the following years, Jane (1806), Mary (1808), John (1811), Isaac Jane, 12 Franklin (1814), and Sarah (1816) would be born to Jacob and Sarah in Ireland. Mary, 10 Jacob was a schoolteacher in Belfast, and his background ensured that the John, 7 children received a good education. Isaac Franklin, 4 Like many other Scotch and Irish families, the Scotts looked to other lands Sarah, 2 for opportunities unavailable in Ireland. Some of Jacob’s brothers left to work in the textile industry at Manchester, England, and one sister emigrated to the United States. On April 5, 1819, Jacob and Sarah took their six children and left Ireland for Canada. They may have been accompanied by members of the Warnock family and Jacob’s brother, James. In May they 1 Some records date Sarah’s birth to 1789. Since this would put her marriage age at 15 and her last childbirth at 35, I have chosen the more logical latter date, which places her marriage at age 25 and her last childbirth at 45. British couples rarely married before their mid-twenties during this period; teenage marriages only became common later, among immigrant pioneers in the American West. 5 landed at Quebec and journeyed inland to the area surrounding Little York (present-day Toronto, Ontario). Ann, the oldest child, recalled their travels: From [Little York] we moved to Markham County, where my father taught school for one year, receiving one hundred dollars bounty from the British government for teaching, besides the subscribed fees of the parents of his pupils. In the following year [1821], I think, we located at Trafalgar on one hundred acres of land, given by the government to all British subjects who were actual settlers.1 In Trafalgar Township, Jacob built a large home from handmade clay brick which he named Ebenezer Hall.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Mormon Baptismal Site in Chatburn, England
    Carol Wilkinson: Baptismal Site in Chatburn, England 83 Mormon Baptismal Site in Chatburn, England Carol Wilkinson The location of a baptismal site in the village of Chatburn, England, used by Mormon missionaries in the 1830s and 1840s has been identified. This village, along with the neighboring community of Downham, was the location of a large number of Mormon conversions when the message of the restored gospel was first preached to the inhabitants during this time period. The first Mormon missionaries to England arrived in Liverpool in July 1837. These seven men (Heber C. Kimball, Orson Hyde, Willard Richards, Joseph Fielding, Isaac Russell, John Goodson, and John Snyder), quickly moved to Preston where they were successful in receiving converts and orga- nized a branch of the Church in that city. After organizing the Preston Branch they decided to separate and carry their message to other parts of the surround- ing country. Heber C. Kimball, Orson Hyde, and Joseph Fielding stayed in the Preston area and continued to proselytize and organize branches. Kimball and Fielding also began to venture into the upper reaches of the river Ribble Val- ley, teaching in Walkerford and Ribchester, where they experienced further success and organized additional branches of the Church.1 Further upstream from these villages lay the small communities of Chat- burn and Downham, just south of the river Ribble and north of towering Pen- dle Hill. Some of the most spiritual experiences of the missionary effort in the upper Ribble Valley occurred in these two villages. When Heber expressed a desire to visit the villages he noted receiving a negative response from some of his companions: “Having mentioned my determination of going to Chat- burn to several of my brethren, they endeavored to dissuade me from going, CAROL WILKINSON ([email protected]) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Exercise Sciences, Brigham Young University, and an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Church History and Doctrine, BYU.
    [Show full text]
  • A Study of the Book of Abraham
    Brigham Young University BYU ScholarsArchive Theses and Dissertations 1946 A Study of the Book of Abraham Charles Edward Haggerty Brigham Young University - Provo Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd Part of the Biblical Studies Commons, and the Mormon Studies Commons BYU ScholarsArchive Citation Haggerty, Charles Edward, "A Study of the Book of Abraham" (1946). Theses and Dissertations. 4736. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4736 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. A STUDY OF THE BOOK OF ABRAHAM A thesis presented to the faculty of the division of religion brigham young university 14288 in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree master of arts by charles edward haggerty 1941946 ACKNOWLEDGEacknowledgemotacknowledgementKNOWLEDGEMENTAC MOT iiiili111 the author wishes to express his gratitude especially to elder joseph fielding smith church Mistorianhistorian for the use of the church library and to the staff of the library for their efficient service likewise he is grateful to president howard S cdonaldmcdonald of the brigham young university and to anna lortonollertonollortonOlollortonlibrarianforlibrarian for the use of the facil- ities of the university library to the many who have in any way contributed materials for this thesisthethesis
    [Show full text]
  • The World of Joseph Fielding: Chapter 3
    The World of Joseph Fielding: Chapter 3 Immigration from England to the New World World events in the late 18th and early 19th centuries opened the door for the settling of Upper Canada. Many new settlements were thriving by the time the missionary Parley P. Pratt arrived in Toronto in 1836. This is where Joseph, Mary and Mercy Fielding, as well as John and Leonora Cannon Taylor were introduced to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. At the end of the French and Indian War in 1763, France ceded all of its northern territory in the New World to England. Napoleon sold his remaining France controlled all of Canada claim in 1803, known as the Louisiana Purchase. In the 1830s, many emigrants from England, including the Fielding siblings, emigrated to Toronto. until the end of the Seven Years War in 1763, a war which involved most of the major powers in Europe. Known as the French and Indian War in North America, Great Britain gained much of eastern Canada by defeating the challenges of the French and their Native American allies, greatly strengthening England’s hold in the New World. After the American Revolution two decades later, thousands of Loyalists who had supported King George III felt it prudent to leave the United States. They found welcome refuge in Upper Canada, a province created from Lower Canada in 1791 specifically for these Loyalists. Upper Canada, higher in altitude than the north, and bordering along the Great Lakes in relative close proximity to the United States to the south, developed into a decidedly British community.
    [Show full text]
  • The Emergence and Development of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter–Day Saints in Staffordshire, 1839–1870
    UNIVERSITY OF CHICHESTER An accredited institution of the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON Department of History The Emergence and Development of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter–day Saints in Staffordshire, 1839–1870 by David Michael Morris Thesis for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy This thesis has been completed as a requirement for a higher degree of the University of Southampton November 2010 UNIVERSITY OF CHICHESTER An accredited institution of the University of Southampton ABSTRACT DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY Doctor of Philosophy The Emergence and Development of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter–day Saints in Staffordshire, 1839–1870 By David Michael Morris This thesis analyses the emergence, development and subsequent decline of the LDS Church in Staffordshire between 1839 and 1870 as an original contribution to nineteenth–century British regional and religious history. I begin by examining the origins of the US Mormon Mission to Britain and a social historical study of the Staffordshire religious and industrial landscape. In order to recover the hidden voices of Staffordshire Mormon converts, I have constructed a unique Staffordshire Mormon Database for the purposes of this thesis containing over 1,900 records. This is drawn upon throughout, providing the primary quantitative evidence for this fascinating yet neglected new religious movement. From the data I explore the demographic composition of Staffordshire Mormonism using a more precise definition of class than has been the case previously, whilst also considering gender and
    [Show full text]
  • Heber C. Kimball's Experience with Evil Spirits Taught Him and His
    Heber C. Kimball’s experience with evil spirits taught him and his companions about the adver­ sary’s power and invisible realm. (Painting by John W. Clawson.) HEBER C. KIMBALL AND ORSON HYDE’S 1837 VISION OF THE INFERNAL WORLD R Christopher James Blythe I consider it a great privilege to offer this essay in honor of Richard Cowan. While I have not been blessed to be his student or his colleague, I have been benefited and influenced by his work. His volume The Church in the Twentieth Century remains an important reminder to so many of us who focus in the nineteenth century that Church history has so much left to be explored. Brother Cowan has demonstrated the compatibility of faithful scholarship and academic rigor in a manner that is truly commendable. he 1837 mission to Great Britain was a milestone in Church history. It was the first mission outside of North America, and its eventual fruits swelled the ranks of the Saints in Nauvoo. TThere was little training or experience among the seven missionaries. Four of them had only recently found the gospel through the preach- ing of Parley P. Pratt in upper Canada. These converts were eager to accompany Heber C. Kimball (who had been called to preside over the mission), Orson Hyde, and Willard Richards on their journey. Kimball and Hyde were both ordained to the apostleship in 1835. As we think about this mission and the later coming of the major- ity of the Apostles in 1840, we are right to remember the miracu- lous conversion of many Latter-day Saints, the shaping of young men 176 P An Eye of Faith who would become great leaders in this dispensation, but also the real adversity faced by this first set of missionaries.
    [Show full text]
  • Pre-1844 Letters of William Law
    BYU Studies Quarterly Volume 20 Issue 2 Article 6 4-1-1980 “Brother Joseph Is Truly A Wonderful Man, He Is All We Could Wish a Prophet to Be”: Pre-1844 Letters of William Law Lyndon W. Cook Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq Recommended Citation Cook, Lyndon W. (1980) "“Brother Joseph Is Truly A Wonderful Man, He Is All We Could Wish a Prophet to Be”: Pre-1844 Letters of William Law," BYU Studies Quarterly: Vol. 20 : Iss. 2 , Article 6. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol20/iss2/6 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in BYU Studies Quarterly by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. Cook: “Brother Joseph Is Truly A Wonderful Man, He Is All We Could Wish brother joseph Is truly A wonderful man he Is all we could wish a prophet to be pre 1844 letters of william law lyndon W cook although now seldom recognized as being anything more than a bitter apostate william law was for several years a church member of considerable faith born in northern ireland in 18091809 william im- migrated to america with his family about ten years later finally set- tling in mercer county pennsylvania he later moved to church- ville ontario canada where he owned and operated a mill and served as local postmaster here in upper canada william married canadian born jane silverthorn who bore him eight children it was here
    [Show full text]
  • The World of Joseph Fielding: Chapter 5 Parley P. Pratt Is Prepared for A
    The World of Joseph Fielding: Chapter 5 Parley P. Pratt is Prepared for a Mission to Canada At the same time the Charleton settlement was growing, Joseph Smith, Jr., the young prophet and leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was building up a Zion people in Kirtland, Ohio, about two hundred miles southwest of Toronto, across Lake Erie. In 1834, Joseph led two hundred men on a thousand-mile march to Missouri to defend a second body of members of the Church whose In 1830, Joseph Smith moved the body of the LDS Church from Palmyra, New York to Kirtland, Ohio. Another body of the Church had settled in Missouri. homes and lives were under attack by the Missouri militia. This march was hampered by cholera, which had spread from New York to the interior. The disease afflicted almost seventy members of the camp, ultimately killing fourteen. Parley P. Pratt traveled with Joseph Smith and others on the march from Kirtland to Missouri to protect members of the Church who were being attacked by Missourians. Parley P. Pratt, a member of the Church since 1830, had marched with Zion’s Camp to Missouri. At the end of 1834, he settled with his wife Thankful in New Portage, Ohio, about sixty miles south of Kirtland where a large group of Saints lived. Thankful was a frail woman who suffered from tuberculosis. Her desire for a child had not been met. In February of 1835, Joseph Smith called twelve apostles, the first time this quorum was established in this dispensation, although the revelation authorizing this had been received in 1829.1 Nine of the twelve men called to be apostles had marched Parley Parker Pratt, 28 years old, was with Joseph Smith to Missouri the previous year.
    [Show full text]
  • Journal of Mormon History Vol. 38, No. 2, Spring 2012
    Journal of Mormon History Volume 38 Issue 2 Article 1 2012 Journal of Mormon History Vol. 38, No. 2, Spring 2012 Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory Part of the Religion Commons Recommended Citation Journal of Mormon history. Vol 38, Winter 2012: Iss. 2. This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at DigitalCommons@USU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of Mormon History by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@USU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Journal of Mormon History Vol. 38, No. 2, Spring 2012 Table of Contents CONTENTS LETTERS --Augusta Adams Cobb Young: Priesthood Holder Connell O’Donovan, vii PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS --“Not as a Stranger”: A Presbyterian Afoot in the Mormon Past William P. MacKinnon, 1 TANNER LECTURE --Mormon Stories: A Librarian’s Perspective George A. Miles, 47 ARTICLES --From Doctor to Disciple: Willard Richards’s Journey to Mormonism Devery S. Anderson, 67 --New Ways In: Writing Interdisciplinary Mormon History Introduction Rachel Cope, 99 --Shifting the Plot: Possibilities in Mormon Women’s History Rachel Cope, 100 --History through Liturgy: What Worship Remembers Matthew Bowman, 108 --A Shared Historicist Enterprise: Mormon History through a Literary Lens Amy Easton-Flake, 114 --Mormon History and “Lived Religion” Ryan G. Tobler, 119 --“Where Nothing Is Long Ago”: Childhood and Youth in Mormon History Rebecca de Schweinitz, 125 --Religion in a Recipe Kate Holbrook, 139 Conclusion Rachel Cope, 143 --Eleven Witnesses Behold the Plates Gale Yancey Anderson, 145 --Joseph Smith’s Personal Polygamy Brian C. Hales, 163 REVIEWS --Mark T.
    [Show full text]
  • The Missionary Movements of the LDS Church in New England, 1830-1850
    Brigham Young University BYU ScholarsArchive Theses and Dissertations 1969 The Missionary Movements of the LDS Church in New England, 1830-1850 Richard Shelton Williams Brigham Young University - Provo Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd Part of the Missions and World Christianity Commons, and the Mormon Studies Commons BYU ScholarsArchive Citation Williams, Richard Shelton, "The Missionary Movements of the LDS Church in New England, 1830-1850" (1969). Theses and Dissertations. 5215. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5215 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. 40 THE missionary MOVEMENTS OF THE LDS CHURCH IN NEW ENGLAND 1830 1850 A thesis presented to the department of graduate studies in the college of religious instruction brigham young university in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree master of arts by richard shelton williams june 1969 the writing of this work has been possible only through the effortefforts cooperation and help of many people the writer would like to express special appreciation to the followingfollcming to dr russell R rich who so willingly davasavegavegava of his ttimstimecims to offer many kindd and helpful suggestions to drs hyrum andrus and chauncey C riddle for their patience in reading the text and offerinzferenzoffering
    [Show full text]
  • Identity Maintenance in the 1844 Latter-Day Saint Reform Sect Robert M
    Utah State University DigitalCommons@USU All Graduate Theses and Dissertations Graduate Studies 5-2017 Anatomy of a Rupture: Identity Maintenance in the 1844 Latter-day Saint Reform Sect Robert M. Call Utah State University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd Part of the American Studies Commons, and the History of Religion Commons Recommended Citation Call, Robert M., "Anatomy of a Rupture: Identity Maintenance in the 1844 Latter-day Saint Reform Sect" (2017). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 5858. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/5858 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate Studies at DigitalCommons@USU. It has been accepted for inclusion in All Graduate Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@USU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ANATOMY OF A RUPTURE: IDENTITY MAINTENANCE IN THE 1844 LATTER-DAY SAINT REFORM SECT by Robert M. Call A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE in History Approved: _________________________ _________________________ Philip Barlow, Ph.D. Kyle T. Bulthuis, Ph.D. Major Professor Committee Member _________________________ _________________________ Clint Pumphrey Mark McLellan, Ph.D. Committee Member Vice President for Research and Dean of the School of Graduate Studies UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY Logan, Utah 2017 ii Copyright © Robert M. Call 2017 All Rights Reserved iii ABSTRACT Anatomy of a Rupture: Identity Maintenance in the 1844 Latter-day Saint Reform Sect by Robert M. Call, Master of Science Utah State University, 2017 Major Professor: Philip Barlow Department: History Dissent riddled Mormonism almost from the day of its inception.
    [Show full text]
  • EARLY BRANCHES of the CHURCH of JESUS CHRIST of LATTER-DAY SAINTS 1830-1850 Lyman D
    EARLY BRANCHES OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS 1830-1850 Lyman D. PW Branches, as an organization of the Church, are first ALBANY, NEW YORK mentioned in the D&C 20:65. Verses 65-67 were added to 8 members. (HC4:6; OP5:107) the D&C by the prophet some time after the original revelation was given I April of 1830. ALEXANDER OR ALEXANDRIA, GENESEE, NEW In 1840 the role of a branch was noL unders~oodas it is YORK today. At tha time a branch contained within its boundaries Jun 1835, 4 members. It belonged to the Black River one or more stakes. This would seem to indicale L-hatche Conference. (HC2:225; IHC6:98) tirst branches of the church should actually be called stakes in the modem sense. (HC4: 143- 144) ALLERTON, OCEAN, NEW JERSEY Approximately 575 branches of the church have been In 1837 there appeared to have been a branch. identitied in the United Sktes and Canada prior to the Utah (Allerron Messenger, Allerton, NJ, 24 Aug J 955) period. Many of hese were abandoned in the 1830s as the church moved to Missouri and Illinois. Others were ALLRED, POTTAWATTAME, IOWA disbanded as the church prepared to move west. In some 2 Jan1 848, list of 13 high priests: Isaac Allred; Moscs cases there was an initial organization, a disorganization Harris; Thomas Richardson; Nathaniel 13. Riggs; William and a reorganization as successive waves of missionary Allridge; John Hanlond; hnyFisher; Edmund Fisher; work and migration hit an area. John Walker; William Faucett; .
    [Show full text]
  • The World of Joseph Fielding: Chapter 12
    The World of Joseph Fielding: Chapter 12 1838: The Church in England and America On January 12, 1838, Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon were forced by their enemies to flee in the night. The opposition hounded them even two hundred miles from Kirtland, where the group stopped for a time and the prophet, in need of funds to sustain his family, hired out in the bitter winter to chop wood.1 By spring, the leaders of the Church and their families were finally in Missouri with the main body of the Church. Of this same time period in England, Elder Kimball wrote: We were continually engaged in the work of the ministry, proclaiming the everlasting gospel in all regions about, and baptizing all such as believed the gospel and repented of their sins. .The Holy Ghost the Comforter was given to us and abode upon us in a remarkable manner, while numbers thronged to hear our addresses. .We could baptize as many as fifty in Preston in a week, exclusive of those in the county. One short mission which Brother Hyde and I took into the country, after preaching five discourses on the principles of our holy religion, we have the pleasure of immersing one hundred and thirty in the waters of baptism.2 On January 13th, Joseph Fielding wrote: Returned last Evening from a 16 days Mission into the Country. It seemed as though the Powers of Darkness were let loose upon me, as though I should sink into the Earth. In short, it seems that the Lord will lay as much upon us as we can bear .
    [Show full text]