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The Temple Lot, located in Independence, Jackson County, Missouri, is the first site to be dedicated for the construction of a temple in the Latter Day Saint movement. The area was dedicated on Temple Lot Wednesday, August 3, 1831 by the movement's founder, Joseph Smith, Jr.,[1] and purchased on December 19, 1831 by his colleague Edward Partridge to be the center of the New Jerusalem or "City of Zion" after he received a revelation stating that it would be the gathering spot of the Saints during the Last Days.[2]

The most prominent 2.5­acre section of the Temple Lot is currently an open, grass­covered field occupied in its northeast corner by a few trees and the headquarters of the Church of Christ (Temple Lot), which is not considered a temple by adherents of that sect. No other structures (with the exception of monuments, markers and signposts) exist on the 2.5­acre section, although numerous important structures exist on the 63.5­acre section, such as the United Nations Peace Plaza, the Community of Christ Auditorium, the Truman Railroad Depot, the LDS Visitors Center, the Community of Christ Temple, an LDS Church stake center,[3] and the Six Nations Tree of Peace. The Temple Lot in Independence, Missouri, with Church of Christ (Temple Lot) headquarters in white frame building just to the left of center; Community Contents of Christ temple and Stone Church to the right and far left, respectively. 1 Overview 2 Early history of the property Basic information 2.1 Selection of the site Location 200 South River Boulevard, 2.2 Temple plans Independence, Missouri 2.3 Eviction from Jackson County Geographic 39.090678°N 94.427968°W 2.4 Legend of the ancient Indian rocks pile 3 Post­Smith era coordinates 3.1 Attempted assassination of Lilburn Boggs Affiliation Church of Christ (Temple Lot) 3.2 Acquisition by the Hedrickites Year consecrated 1831 3.3 Attempts to build a temple 3.4 First arson incident Website Church of Christ­Temple Lot (htt 3.5 Second arson incident p://www.churchofchrist­tl.org/) 3.6 Third arson incident Architectural description 4 Museum 5 Notes Groundbreaking 1831 (cornerstones laid by Joseph 6 External links Smith) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Lot 1/11 4/28/2017 Temple Lot ­ Wikipedia Completed Never completed Overview

The city of Independence, Missouri became important to the Latter Day Saint movement starting in the autumn of 1830, only a few months after the religion was incorporated in the state of New York in April 1830. The movement's founder, Joseph Smith, had said he had received revelations designating this city as the "Center Place" of "Zion",[4] and many early adherents apparently believed that the Garden of Eden had been located there— including later LDS Church leaders Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball, who said he was told this by Joseph Smith. Alexander Majors, who was a sixteen­year­old resident of Independence in 1831, wrote in his memoirs:[5]

Nothing of very great note occurred in the county of Jackson, after the cyclone of 1826, until the year 1830, when five Mormon elders made their appearance in the county and commenced preaching, stating to their audiences that they were chosen by the priesthood which had been organized by the prophet Joseph Smith...They selected a place near Independence, Jackson County, Mo., in the early part of the year 1831 which they named Temple Lot, a beautiful spot of ground on a high eminence. They there stuck down their Jacob's staff, as they called it, and said: "This spot is the center of the earth. This is the place where the Garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve resided, was located, and we are sent here according to the directions of the angel that appeared to our prophet, Joseph Smith, and told him this is the spot of ground on which the New Jerusalem is to be built, and, when finished, Christ Jesus is to make his reappearance and dwell in this city of New Jerusalem with the saints for a thousand years, at the end of which time there will be a new deal with reference to the nations of the earth, and the final wind­up of the career of the human family."

However, since Smith never issued an official revelation to the effect that Independence and the Temple Lot were the site of the Garden of Eden, Latter Day Saints (other than some adherents of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter­day Saints) traditionally do not formally accept this claim as doctrine.[6] While Smith later issued a revelation indicating a spot named Adam­ondi­Ahman (fifty miles to the north of Independence) as the place Adam and Eve went to after being expelled from the Garden, he never officially confirmed or denied the idea that Independence had been the location of Eden itself.

Although Smith had designated the Temple Lot site as the heart of his new City of Zion, the Latter Day Saints were expelled from Jackson County (late 1833) and later from Missouri (early 1839) before a temple could be constructed. Ownership of the property later became the subject of court challenges among some sects of the Latter Day Saint movement that arose from the succession crisis following Smith's assassination, most notably between the Church of Christ (Temple Lot) and the Community of Christ, formerly known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS Church). In 1891 the Reorganized Church, founded by Smith's son Joseph Smith III, sued in the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri to take possession of the property. It won in lower court, but lost in the United States Court of Appeals. The United States Supreme Court refused to review the case.[7]

The Temple Lot is currently owned by the small Church of Christ (Temple Lot), which acquired the land in 1867. This organization made a failed effort in 1929 to build a temple of its own on the property,[8] which represents to date the only attempt to erect such a structure since the time of Joseph Smith. Currently this body has its headquarters on the site, which has twice been damaged by arson attacks. The Temple Lot church has insisted since about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Lot 2/11 4/28/2017 Temple Lot ­ Wikipedia 1976 (when final attempts at conciliation by the RLDS Church took place) that it will not cooperate with other Latter Day Saint or Christian denominations in building a temple, nor will it sell the Lot, regardless of any price that might conceivably be offered.[2] Some members of other Latter Day Saint groups have described the Temple Lot church as "'squatters' on the location,"[9] but that organization steadfastly defends its right to possess the property as its physical and spiritual "custodian".[10]

The Community of Christ, the second­largest church within the modern Latter Day Saint movement, now owns the bulk of the original 63 acre (26 ha) property around the Temple Lot, often referred to as the greater Temple Lot. This land had been purchased in the 1830s by Latter Day Saint bishop Edward Partridge to be the central common and sacred area according to the Plat of Zion. It maintains its world headquarters in this area, opening its Auditorium to the south of the Lot in 1958, while in 1994 it dedicated its Independence Temple just to the east.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter­day Saints (LDS Church) operates an interpretive visitor center one block east and south of the Temple Lot. It also maintains a Stake Center, LDS Social Services center, and mission headquarters on its portion of the greater Temple Lot. Early history of the property

Selection of the site

In March 1831, Joseph Smith said he had a revelation which stated that a New Jerusalem was to be established in the United States.[11] In June 1831, Smith said he had a second revelation that the New Jerusalem was to be established somewhere on the western border of Missouri, "on the borders by the Lamanites (Native Americans)."[2][12] Independence is six miles (10 km) east of Kaw Point on the current Missouri–Kansas border, which formed the north–south line west of which all tribes were to be removed in the Indian Removal Act of 1830.

On July 20, 1831, Smith presented another revelation on the subject, with more precise details:

"[T]he land of Missouri ... is the land which I have appointed and consecrated for the gathering of the saints: wherefore this is the land of promise, and the place for the city of Zion. ... Behold Stone from the Southeast Corner of the the place which is now called Independence is the center place, and the a spot for the temple is Temple and a "witness marker" for the lying westward upon a lot which is not far from the court house: wherefore it is wisdom that the cornerstone on the northeast corner on land should be purchased by the saints; and also every tract lying westward, even unto the line exhibit in the Temple Lot museum. The [the Missouri­Kansas border] running directly between Jew [Native Americans] and Gentile. witness marker has a "surveyor 4" And also every tract bordering by the prairies, inasmuch as my disciples are enabled to buy (backwards numeral "4") to differentiate it lands. Behold this is wisdom, that they may obtain it for an everlasting inheritance.[13] from a "9" The stone refers to being 40 feet (12 m) from the cornerstone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Lot 3/11 4/28/2017 Temple Lot ­ Wikipedia Smith's vision of acquiring every tract of land between Independence and the Kansas border would draw the ire of non­Latter Day Saint settlers throughout Jackson County, including what is now downtown Kansas City.

On August 3, 1831, Smith, Cowdery, Sidney Rigdon, Peter Whitmer, Jr., Frederick G. Williams, William W. Phelps, Martin Harris, and Joseph Coe laid a stone as the northeast cornerstone of the anticipated temple. On December 19, 1831 Edward Partidge purchased 63 acres (250,000 m2), including the Temple Lot. During the purchase, Smith was to reveal: "The temple shall be reared in this generation, for verily this generation shall not pass away until an house shalt be built unto the Lord and a cloud shall rest upon it."[2][14] Because no temple at this location has ever been built, Smith's prediction that a temple would be reared "in this generation" has stirred debate.[15]

Temple plans

In June 1833, Smith set out the Plat of Zion, which laid out how the community was to be structured. At the center of the planned city were to be 24 "temples" — 12 for the high priesthood and 12 for lesser priesthood. The specific name for the temple to be built on Temple Lot was "The House of the Lord for the Presidency" which had the following description:

The house of the Lord for the Presidency, is eighty­seven feet long and sixty­one feet wide, and ten feet taken off of the east end for the stairway, leaves the inner court, seventy­eight feet by sixty­one, which is calculated and divided for seats in the following manner, viz: the two aisles four feet wide each; the middle block of pews are eleven feet ten inches long, and three feet wide each; and the two lines drawn through the middle are four inches (102 mm) apart; in which space a curtain is to drop at right angles, and divide the house into four parts if necessary. The pews of the side blocks are fourteen and a half feet long, and three feet wide. The five pews in each corner of the house, are twelve feet six inches long. The open spaces between the corner and side pews are for fireplaces; those in the west are nine feet wide, and the east ones are eight feet and eight inches (203 mm) wide, and the chimneys carried up in the wall where they are marked with a pencil.

... The Plat of Zion showing the temple as the central location of the community. Make your house fourteen feet high between the floors. There will not be a gallery but a chamber; Most cities with Latter Day Saint roots each story to be fourteen feet high, arched overhead with an elliptic arch. Let the foundation of the (including Salt Lake City, Utah and house be of stone; let it be raised sufficiently high to allow of banking up so high as to admit of a Mesa, Arizona) were to follow the grid descent every way from the house, so far as to divide the distance between this house, and the one portion of this layout next to it. On the top of the foundation, above the embankment, let there be two rows of hewn stone, and then commence the brick­work on the hewn stone. The entire height of the house is to be twenty­eight feet, each story being fourteen feet; make the wall a sufficient thickness for a house of this size. The end view represents five windows of the same size as those at the side, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Lot 4/11 4/28/2017 Temple Lot ­ Wikipedia middle window excepted, which is to be the same, with the addition of side lights. This middle window is designed to light the rooms both above and below, as the upper floor is to be laid off in the same way as the lower one, and arched overhead; with the same arrangement of curtains, or veils, as before mentioned. The doors are to be five feet wide, and nine feet high, and to be in the east end of the house. The west end is to have no doors, but in other respects is to be like the east, except the windows are to be opposite the alleys which run east and west. The roof of the house is to have one­fourth pitch, the door to have Gothic top, the same as the windows. The shingles of the roof to be painted before they are put on. There is to be a fanlight, as you see. The windows and doors are all to have venetian blinds. A belfry is to be in the east end, and a bell of very large size.[16]

Eviction from Jackson County

In July 1833, Mormon leader W. W. Phelps published a copy of a Missouri law setting out requirements for free blacks to come to Missouri in the The Evening and the Morning Star, a prominent Mormon newspaper.[17] The Latter Day Saints had been experiencing considerable friction with their neighbors in Jackson County prior to this event, but Phelp's publication proved to be the last straw for many non­Mormons in the area—most particularly slaveowners.[18] Enraged that the Mormons were apparently bent upon showing blacks that there was an alternative to slavery in Missouri, they burned the newspaper plant and tarred and feathered Bishop Edward Partridge and church Elder Charles Allen.[18] The process set in motion by this event would end with Latter Day Saints Saints being evicted from Independence and the surrounding Jackson County, Missouri area later that year.[19]

The Latter Day Saints moved across the Missouri River to Clay County, Missouri, where they retained David Rice Atchison as their attorney to settle claims on their real estate in Jackson County. The Mormons would relocate again to Caldwell County, Missouri with its county seat at Far West, before being expelled from Missouri altogether in the 1838 Mormon War.[20] In March 1839, Smith—whose surrender to the State Militia at Far West ended the conflict—told his followers to "sell all the land in Jackson county, and all other lands in the state whatsoever."[2] The Temple Lot was sold to Martin Harris, but Harris did not record the deed.[2]

Legend of the ancient Indian rocks pile

A legend prevalent amongst membership of the Church of Christ (Temple Lot) is that an ancient convocation of Native Americans took place at the eventual site of the Temple Lot, and representatives of different tribes each left a stone on a pile. A description of this legend was published in 2015 in two installments of the church publication Zion's Advocate.[21] Post­Smith era

Attempted assassination of Lilburn Boggs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Lot 5/11 4/28/2017 Temple Lot ­ Wikipedia Lilburn Boggs, Governor of Missouri during the Mormon War, lived in Independence prior to that conflict. Boggs was widely perceived as a vehement "anti­Mormon", having issued his "extermination order" in the fall of 1838, and the Latter Day Saints blamed him for much of the difficulties and sorrows they had been forced to endure. Following the war, and after he left office, Boggs settled in a house located three blocks east of Temple Lot on the City of Zion plot. On the evening of May 6, 1842, while sitting in his home, he was shot in the head by an unknown assailant. Though badly wounded, Boggs survived. Mormons were suspected, and Smith associate Orrin Porter Rockwell was arrested for the crime, but no convictions ever came in the case.[22] Site of Boggs home on the Mormon Acquisition by the Hedrickites Walking Tour with an inset blow up of the marker. The marker is on a Joseph Smith was assassinated in Carthage, Illinois in June 1844. On cleared area of the sidewalk to the left April 6, 1845, Apostle Brigham Young expressed the desire to reassert of the blow up. The Independence church control of the Temple Lot: "And when we get into Jackson county Temple steeple is visible through the to walk in the courts of that house, we can say we built this temple: for as trees at the top of the hill. the Lord lives we will build up Jackson county in this generation."[2] However, he was unable to act on this desire at the time, since he and most of the other Latter Day Saints were in the process of migrating to Utah, and they remained uncertain of the attitudes of Jackson Countians toward the possibility of renewed Mormon interest in their area. On April 26, 1848, Young, Heber C. Kimball, Orson Pratt First Hedrickite meetinghouse on the and Wilford Woodruff in Winter Quarters, Nebraska debated what they should do about their claim on the Temple lot property prior to the planned journey to the Salt Lake Valley. Their decision was to accept a $300 quit claim offer on the deed.[2]

In 1847 the city of Independence formally incorporated, with the Temple Lot receiving the legal designation of lots 15 through 22 in the "Woodson and Maxwell Addition". While the main body of Latter Day Saints accompanied Brigham Young to Utah, other groups remaining in Illinois argued that they should return to Independence to build the temple. The first of these groups to relocate to the area was the diminutive Church of Christ (Temple Lot), also called "Hedrickites", which held its first worship meeting in Independence on Sunday, March 3, 1867. This was the first time Latter­day Saints had resided in Independence since early November 7, 1833, when they were expelled from the area at gunpoint. Unable to acquire the entire greater Temple Lot due to a lack of funds, this organization managed to purchase the Temple Lot itself, erecting its first house of worship on it in 1882.[2] (A June, 2009 lecture about the history of the Temple Lot states ground was broken for the first house of worship on the site on April 7, 1884—not in 1882—and the structure was completed in 1889).[1] (http://www.cesnur.org/2009/slc_addams1.htm)

On June 9, 1887, the RLDS Church laid claim to the entire 63­acre (250,000 m2) greater Temple Lot, including that portion purchased in 1867 by the Church of Christ, after acquiring the deed for the property from the heirs of Oliver Cowdery. The only contested portion of the purchase was the Temple Lot itself. In 1891, the RLDS Church sued the Temple Lot church for the title to the land, winning at trial in March, 1894 [23] but losing on appeal in a Federal appeals court.[24]

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A panoramic view of Temple Lot from the U.N. Plaza to the west. Significant buildings (left to right): Stone Church (a historic congregational building of the Community of Christ), Church of Christ Temple Lot, Community of Christ Temple, Mormon Independence Visitor Center (slightly visible to the left down the hill from the auditorium), Community of Christ Auditorium.

Attempts to build a temple

On February 4, 1927, Otto Fetting, an apostle of the Church of Christ (Temple Lot), claimed that John the Baptist had visited him at his home as an angel and urged construction of a temple on the Temple Lot.[25] Fetting's claim was officially endorsed by the leading quorum of the church and by most of the laity,[26] and ground was broken on April 6, 1929, with instructions that the temple was to be completed within seven years.[2] The proposed structure was to be 180 feet (55 m) in length 90 feet (27 m) in width.[2] After staking out a portion of the ground, an angel allegedly appeared and stated that "[t]he building that you have staked is ten feet too far east, and if you will move the stakes then it shall stand upon the place that has been pointed out by the finger of God."[2] Excavations revealed the stones originally buried by Joseph Smith, in line with the survey markers.[27] These two stones are currently in the Temple Lot headquarters building, while their original position is marked by two other engraved stones embedded visibly in the lot. The outer corners of the temple are presently marked by similar stones.

A doctrinal dispute within the Temple Lot organization about baptism ensued later that year, and Fetting was censured by a majority vote of fellow apostles at a church conference in October 1929.[26] Fetting left the Temple Lot church at this time, taking many members with him who eventually founded the Church of Christ (Fettingite) and the Church of Christ with the Elijah Message. Although the Temple Lot church solicited donations for its proposed temple from individuals and even from other Latter Day Saint organizations,[28] little money was forthcoming (none from the other organizations), and construction never progressed beyond excavating for the structure's foundation. This unsightly hole was filled in by the city of Independence in 1946, after the Temple Lot church had finally abandoned all efforts on the project.[29] The Temple Lot church relandscaped the area, which presently comprises a grassy field, with a few trees and the Temple Lot headquarters building at its northeast end. No further plans for construction of a temple on the site have been announced.

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The first meetinghouse constructed on the Temple Lot was the home of Edward Partridge, which served as a schoolhouse, a Sunday meetinghouse, and a Conference Center. It was burned by arson along with an estimated "200 homes" belonging to Latter­day Saints on November 5, 1833.[30]

Second arson incident

In July 1898, 46­year­old William David Creighton "W.D.C." Pattyson, reportedly a 'suspended' member of the RLDS Church from Boston, Massachusetts,[31] was arrested and briefly detained after attempting to remove a fence placed around the Temple Lot. (Mr. Pattyson had been baptized into the Hedrickite sect in May, 1898).[32] According to his detractors in the Temple Lot sect, Pattyson reportedly demanded that church officials sign ownership of the property over to him, claiming he was the "One Mighty and Strong".[33] He was detained by police but then released a few days later. Early on Monday, September 5, 1898, he damaged the tiny headquarters building by setting it afire, and then walked to the police station and turned himself in.[34] After he testified in court appearances in late November and early December 1898, The New York Times claimed Pattyson was found 'guilty but insane'[31] and he was sentenced to confinement in a mental institution in St. Joseph, Missouri. However, according to local news reports[35] and Mr. Pattyson's own explanations upon his release,[35] he was found "not guilty by reason of insanity" and committed to the mental institution because the sitting Judge felt Pattyson did not deserve criminal incarceration.

Third arson incident

A man described as a former member set fire to the Temple Lot meetinghouse (itself constructed in 1905 to replace an earlier structure, also damaged by fire) in what he claimed was a political protest[36] on 1 January 1990, damaging the upper floor.[37][38][39][40] The remainder of the building was razed, and a new edifice constructed. This structure serves as the church headquarters, conference site, museum and a meetinghouse for the local Temple Lot congregation. RLDS and Hedrickite member Museum William D.C. Pattyson at his trial in November 1898. Courtroom portrait A small museum operated by the Temple Lot church is located in the lower story of the headquarters building on published in the Kansas City Missouri the Lot; it contains some of the original stones placed by Joseph Smith to mark the corners of his intended Journal newspaper on December 1, temple, and also offers church books and literature for sale. 1898. Notes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Lot 8/11 4/28/2017 Temple Lot ­ Wikipedia 15. For a critical approach to Smith's prophecy, see "Failed Prophecies of Joseph 1. Independence Temple, LDSChurchTemples.com. (http://www.ldschurchtemp Smith" (http://www.irr.org/mit/jsfalpro.html), Institute for Religious les.com/independence/) Research, retrieved January 24, 2008. For an apologetic approach, see 2. H. Michael Marquardt, "The Independence Temple of Zion" (http://www.xmi "Independence temple to be built 'in this generation'" (http://en.fairmormon.o ssion.com/~research/about/temple.htm), 1997. Retrieved January 24, 2008. rg/Independence_temple_to_be_built_%22in_this_generation%22), FAIR 3. Missouri Independence Mission History (LDS) (http://www.mission.net/mis LDS. Retrieved January 24, 2008. souri/independence/MIM%20History.htm) 16. An Explanation of the Plat of the City of Zion, Sent to the Brethren in Zion, 4. Doctrine and Covenants 57:2–3 (LDS Church ed.). the 25Th of June, 1833 ­ byu.edu ­ Retrieved January 20, 2008 (http://www. 5. Majors, Alexander; Cody, William Frederick (1893). Seventy years on the physics.byu.edu/faculty/rees/325/documents/City%20of%20Zion.pdf) frontier: Alexander Majors' memoirs of a lifetime on the border. Western 17. This law required free blacks to have a certificate of citizenship from another Miner and Financier. p. 43. Retrieved March 3, 2013. state before entering Missouri. 6. Bruce A. Van Orden, “I Have a Question: What do we know about the 18. David Persuitte (2000, 2d ed.). Joseph Smith and the Origins of the Book of location of the Garden of Eden?” (http://www.lds.org/ensign/1994/01/i­have­ Mormon (New York: McFarland) p. 234 (https://books.google.com/books?id a­question), Ensign, January 1994, 54–55; see also Andrew Jenson, =5Zx9qOay304C&pg=PA234&lpg=PA234&dq=evening+star+morning+star Historical Record, 7:438–39 (1888); Orson F. Whitney, Life of Heber C. +slave+mormon&source=web&ots=TiP7vPQUI6&sig=ULe0­mgUzRsDz­Oa Kimball, Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 219 (1967); Heber C. Kimball, yQN5gonbHVM). "Advancement of the Saints", Journal of Discourses 10:235 (1863); Journal 19. "Evening and Morning Star Volume 2, Number 14". Centerplace.org. History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter­day Saints, Brigham Young Retrieved 2010­03­16. to Orson Hyde, March 15, 1857 (1830­); Wilford Woodruff, Susan Staker 20. During this period, Smith laid a cornerstone for a temple at Far West, and (ed.), Waiting for the World to End: The Diaries of Wilford Woodruff, Salt Brigham Young dedicated a site at Adam­ondi­Ahman, although no Lake City: Signature Books, 305 (1993); John A. Widtsoe, G. Homer cornerstones were laid. Both sites are within 100 miles (160 km) of the Durham (ed.), Evidences and Reconciliations, 396–397 (1960); Bruce R. Temple Lot, to the north. These two temples were never built, though the McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 19–20 LDS Church currently owns the sites and has visitor areas at each. 7. Ron Romig, "The Temple Lot Suit After 100 Years" (http://www.jwha.info/j 21. Case, James Maynard, Story of the Small Pile of Stones, Zions Advocate, V. ctls12.htm), JWHA Journal, 12 (1992):3–15 92, No. 1, 2015, p. 9 (reprinted from Feb. 1927) (http://www.churchofchrist­ 8. History of the Church of Christ (http://web.archive.org/web/2001040521443 tl.org/PDFs/Zion/2015­01%2002%20Jan%20Feb.pdf), Wheaton, Angela, A 3/http://churchofchrist­tl.org/history.html). Retrieved March 25, 2009. Very Significant LITTLE PILE of ROCKS, Zions Advocate, V. 92, No. 4, 9. Max McCoy, "Separatist by faith: Church of Israel's patriarch rebuts claims 2015, p. 76­78 (reprinted from the July ­ August, 1964 issues of the Zion’s of racism" (http://www.gaymangate.com/JoplinGlobe1­28­2001­1.pdf), Advocate) (http://www.churchofchrist­tl.org/PDFs/Zion/2015­07%2008%20J Joplin Globe, 2001­01­28. ly%20Aug.pdf) 10. History of the Church of Christ (http://web.archive.org/20090220190911/htt 22. MISSOURI MORMON WALKING TRAIL MAP ­ jwha.info ­ Retrieved p://www.churchofchrist­tl.org/history.htm). Retrieved on 2009­08­03. February 15, 2010 (http://www.jwha.info/mmff/mmtour.htm) Updated 2011­03­2011 23. Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints v. Church of 11. Joseph Smith, Jr. et al. (eds.) (1835). Doctrine and Covenants of the Church Christ, 60 F. 937 (W.D. Mo. 1894) (https://archive.org/details/decisionofjoh of the Latter Day Saints (Kirtland, Ohio), section 15 (http://saintswithouthal nfp00philrich). os.com/s/d&c_45.phtml). 24. Church of Christ in Missouri v. Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of 12. Joseph Smith et al. (eds.) (1833). Book of Commandments, section 56 (htt Latter Day Saints, 70 F. 179 (8th Cir. 1895). p://saintswithouthalos.com/s/d&c_54.phtml). 25. Mike Connell, "Small branch of Mormonism has ties to Port Huron" (http:// 13. Joseph Smith, Jr. et al. (eds.) (1835). Doctrine and Covenants of the Church www.thetimesherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080106/OPINION02/ of the Latter Day Saints (Kirtland, Ohio), section 27 (http://saintswithouthal 801060306), [Port Huron, Mich.] Times­Herald, January 6, 2008. os.com/s/d&c_57.phtml). 26. A Temple in Jackson County (http://www.deseretnews.com/article/70531266 14. "LDS Doctrine and Covenants 84:4­5". LDS Church. 6/A­temple­in­Jackson­County.html). Retrieved on 2009­08­03

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Lot 9/11 4/28/2017 Temple Lot ­ Wikipedia 27. This event was noted in the Temple Lot church's newsletter, Zion's Advocate, 35. "Photos from utahcollections | Zooomr Photo Sharing". Zooomr.com. 2009­ and occurred on or about May 22, 1929. 09­17. Retrieved 2010­03­16. 28. Jackson County Temple Lot Saga (http://www.mormontimes.com/studies_do 36. Kansas City Star Tuesday, January 15, 1991, page B­2: "Independence: ctrine/church_history/?id=9304). Retrieved on 2009­08­03. Although the Church fire trial begins.""...During a pretrial hearing Monday, Judge Edith architect stated that the temple would require $500,000 to complete, the L. Messina denied a defense motion to suppress tape recordings of telephone Temple Lot church had less than $1,000 in its temple fund, and never conversations between Smith and police. In the recordings, which were exceeded $5,000 in total donations. played at the hearing, Smith identifies himself and tells police that he wants 29. Jackson County Temple Lot Saga (http://www.mormontimes.com/studies_do to make a statement concerning violations of the U.S. Constitution." ctrine/church_history/?id=9304). Retrieved on 2009­08­03. 37. James Walker, "Former Member Burns 'Temple Lot' Church After Joining 30. http://bishoppartridge.blogspot.com/2012/06/chapter­eleven­expulsion­from­ Mormons" (http://web.archive.org/web/20110720131139/http://www.watchm jackson.html an.org/lds/fire.htm), Watchman Expositor, vol. 7, no. 2 (1990), Watchman 31. "Fanatic Burns a Mormon Church" (https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.h Fellowship ministry. tml?res=9F00E4DE1F39E433A25752C0A9649D94699ED7CF), New York 38. Blakeman, Karen and Beverly Potter (1990­01­02). "Ex­church member Times. 1898­12­01, p. 5. dances as vintage sanctuary burns". Kansas City Times. p. A­1, A­7. 32. The Kansas City Star, 1998­09­05, p. A­3. 39. "Missouri Man Charged in Arson and Burglary of Historic Building", 33. Court testimony by defendant W. D. C. Pattyson in November and December Deseret News, 1990­01­04, p. B5. 1898 40. "Arson Charges Filed Against Man in Church Fire" (https://news.google.co 34. The Kansas City Star, 1998­09­05, , p. A­3. m/newspapers?nid=2199&dat=19900103&id=i9sxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WOUF AAAAIBAJ&pg=6821,309355), Lawrence Journal­World, January 3, 1990. External links

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