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1971

The Life and Contributions of

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BYU ScholarsArchive Citation Wightman, Philip C., "The Life and Contributions of Lyman Wight" (1971). Theses and Dissertations. 5212. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5212

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]. TH LIFE ADA D contibut10ns OF LYMANLITIANT WIGHT

A theslcheslthesisS presented to the Peuartmetitdepartment of church hjhistory0 story and doctrine bribrighamahamgham young universityurrlv rs Jltyalty

in fartPartpartialilalitalilai fulsfuisfulfillmentI1 llmentclment of the Requirerequirementsrequirevrequiredgentsmenesgenesent s for the degreeD g oeoe maslermastermasmasker kerler ol01or arts

by philip C 111ahtmannightmanwightman august 1971 acknowledgments

the writer expresses his appreciation to the follow- ing who have made it possible to bring this work to its present foratfonntformt to russell rich chairman of the advisory committeecommitteettees for willingly devoting many hours to see this work completed his kindness understanding and valuable suggestions will always be appreciated to milton V bactananBacbachananbacknianttananmanan whose suggestions on style andand form were ofole015OIE great value to lamar berrett and rush sumpter who were willing to read the manuscript and offer counsel and adaiadviadvicem that aaided1 in the completion of this thesis to my wonderful wife who sacrificed so much of her time to type and help edit this manuscript her devotion and constant encouragement were of utmost inportanceimportance in the completion of this requirement to my children todd jodljodi dick and greggregsgrego who wrverewereN re willing to sacrifice time with their dad to see this goal aaccomplishedchompccomp I1ished

iiilil TtahleTABLEABL 0OPF CONTENTSC01 A EN 71 S chapter page I1 introdixtiintroductionan 1

lleileII11 EARLY ANCESTORS 0 0 0 a 0 0 0 0 0 4

Q 0 a 0 11 0 0 0 7 itiIII111 EARLY LIFE 0 e

IV THE lamanite MISSION 0 0 0 0 & 0 0 0 d 0 0 12

V AFFAIRS I1IN11 jacajac1JACKSONKS ON COUNTY 0 0 4 a 0 9 0 0 0 18

VI ZIONS CAMP 0 a 9 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 9 26

114 38 vilVIIvlie THE MOVE TO CALDWECALDWELL COUNTY 0 0

VIII 0 0 4 0 0 0 a 0 0 0 0 0 57

IX THE NAUVOOMAUVOO PERIOD ILNANDD CALL TO THE

apostleshipAPOSTLESHIP 10 0 0 0 0 0 72

X THE MOVE TO PINE COUNTRY AND EVEXTS associated WITH THE DEATHD r-ath OF joseJOSEPHH SMITHsmramr TH 84

XI LYMANLYVJLN wioWIGHTWIC HT GOES TO 0 0 0 97

XII SUMMARY ANDANTD conclusions 0 118

bibliography 0 t9ta 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a 4 0 a 0 122 appendixes

aoA letter to Brigbrighamharaharnhann young s 0 0 0 0 0 125

10 q 127 B leaflet by 0 0 0

IV CHAPTER I1

introduction statementS tatemencemen t alof the problem the purpose of this study is to collect undtzunderkundtzr one cover accounts of the ssignificantignifignie 11 cant events in thethebthew liflifeilfee of lyman wight and his contributions to the church of christ of latterlatterdayday justificationjustijuseijustajustxf x cationcatlon ofkoflofl thethgehg problempobigm lyman wight was converted to the charchchurch of jesus christ ofoodi01501717 latterlatterdayday saints at kirtlandKirtlandtlandr in 1830 soon after his conversion he was sent to and played an important rolerolaroiarolta in the defense of the saints against the mobs when sonsomeonesomleoneteone was needed to go to kirtland and inform the Propprophetpropheihethei smith that the1 saints had been driven from jackson county nighthightkightwight was the first to volunteer after arriving in kirtland he was called by the to help organiorganiseorganishorganiseanizeze and lead ziosaziosziontszion9s camp colonel wight continued to be active in fighting the mobs until the siege of far west where he was takertaken captivecapt3capto ve with and other leaders of the church and spent the winter in liberty jail with the prophetProphetphat

with the death of Ljoseph sirtismithth lyman refused to follow brigham young and the rest of the twelve

I1 2 along with a small group of saints hehc eventually settsettledlicad in texas where he helped okaoraopoorganizeanize ffiveI1ve different counties after the church was established in utahutahs Brigbrighamharu young sent for lyman to join the saints there j bubutt hehelhex refused to come and was therefore disfellowshipdisfellowshippedped frorrfrore thethlethie church although lyman was a close associate of joseph swithsmith and held many leadership positions in the church orgar1izorgainidorgainidd by joseph little has been written about this aspect of his life the only significant studies have dealt with his life and contributions1 while in texas it is therefore signifi-sicasicjni cant that a comprehensive study of lyman kightnightwight be mademcade method of procedure andsourcesand sources of data in thistiustins study the principal sources were the oyajboyajjournal history of the church located in the Historiahistorianhistorianshistorianosnos office of the church of jesus christ of latterlatterdayday saints at salt lake citycihycleyo and a special file on lyman wight compiled by the church Historianhistoriansts offofficeice the jgumajournaloguma 1 of histohistqhi sto avry the history of the reorganized church of jesus christ of latter day saints as found on film at brigham young university was also examined along with personal diaries journals lettersletlehiehterss genealogies documents histories and pictures the documentary history of the churechurch1 compiled and edited by B H roberts was archedsearchedsersos carefully as were the church periodicals including the times and seasonsseasonsy the elders journal and ththe3 evenitzeveninzeyeningr and homingMornincr s1astarstasaa in addition 3 theses and dissertations that were relevant veirveixweixveirevereweireweree exara3examinedned defdefinitioniniti on of tenitenttemitermsilsims several terms used in this writing are peculiapeculiarpecullarr to the church of jesus christ of latterdaylatterlattery day saints thesethecptheape terms are as followfollowstst church refers to the church of jesus christ of latterlatterdayday saints puppuggugquorumrum of the twelve or the twelve refers to the twelve apostles of the church r saints refers to the members 0ofL the church reorganized church refrefersers to the reorganized church of jesus christ of latter day sasaintsints CHAPTPRchaaptaPTR I1IT

EARLY ANCESTORS

the first ofolfoff tlthethoe kightvightwightwlighl family to iimmigrate1tma9v ate to americaA arrived in the early ICOOs rfromwromrom the isle of Wwightahtght they left the british isles because of religious thomas wight landed in salem and hihiss broth brotherr landed in virginia 2 in july 1637 thethenthem totoentownt n of Deddedhamhams massachusetts was organized and thomasthomash name alqapqappearseairsezirs on the records as one of ththe twelve original inhablinhaulinhabitantstants in 1652303.0le10 52 along with other dedham residents heheahen moved a short distance 0 where they settled the towntourn of medfield 3 it was hereheneheirehehre that his sonssgeonon ephraim utaswasmyas born on january 27 1645 ephriephaiephraimziimalmaim irovedmoved to medfield with his father in 1652 ahelwhelwheree he remained ununtiltj I1 h-haihisal s deadeathth 4 ephraimsephraimeEphraims son nathaniel was born september 12 1678

mo in adfieldedfieldmedfield but he later movedL and helped settle medway massamassachusettschasetchusetts in 1721 he purchased a large tract of land

idanforthanforth phtpphippsphlpphap ps wight the uiaulalihtnihtwihtt farijacarijafamalfamxl bostonbostonebostonoBosbontonotonetono T R marvin 1841848at8t p 8S 2lymanblymanyman wight to august 24 1s571857 lomlocatedted in church estoriwstorihistoriansans office 47 east south teterapleaipleniple streetstreetsstreeto utah hereauhereajhereafterter referred to as wilford woodruff letter aw 3w .9 t williamilliam tardhardwardlard wight 9 thethjahteicheiqh s milmiimilwaukeelva uker swain and tatetates 16901890legoiego p I11 41 bidb1 d 4 5 in what iiss now Thavthawthawsonthompsonsoneon i eltenelfenwhen the first meetingmc eting house was completed in 1735 nathaniel andarlartd his1118lilsliis111.8 family were provided with one ofoll011029 the seventeen pews 5 lyman wightwight0s 8 grandfathergrandfgrandaather levi hightnightwight was bom at medfield on october 24 1712 he moved with his father nathaniel to thompson where he took an active part in the fight for religious freedom and the right of the baptist church to be established0 in northern connecticut 6 the story is told of how jeremiah barstow carecame to thompson proclaiming the doctrine of believers baatbaptbaptismism by immersion one sunday following reverend cabots serrsernsermonlonslonoiono he stood and asked for the liberty to relate his beliefs mr cabctcabat denied his request and had the presumptuouspreztuaptuous intruder removed from the meeting househouseohousdo he continued to preach outside the church and was arrested and imprisoned for a month this treatment aroused the public including levi and hihiss brothers elephalet and john meetings vierewerevigre held where the principles taught by mr barstow were discussed which resulted in a considerable nuinumbernuxabnb E r decledeciedeclaringring themselves baptist and refusing to pay rates for the supportsepporsupporsuppor of mr cabots church levi and the others were arrested but they brought action against the civil authorities won

elieneilen5eaeellenI1ienlen D lamed historyhistory of windhamwindhanlwindhansnindWindhankhanL co2atxvcounty9 connecticut worcester mass s ellen D lamed 18749187491874.91874 I1 180 3173179 61bidbid 6 their case and no langrlongrlongerar had to pay ratratesess to the congregational church 7 lymans father levi vaswas bobbombonibomi july 3 1761 in killingly connecticut on october 24 1782 he married sarah carbin in oxford massachusetts after the birth of their sixth child levi and sarah moved to fairsfairfieldieldsleids herkimer county in 1802 they moved to oppenheinOppenheirnheinahelna new york where levi had purchased a farm later they moved again to centervilleCenterville alleghanyalleghenyAlleghany countyCountys new york where theytinreyley both died levi passed away on january 2 1830 and his wife died april 15 1852 their family consisted of the followfollowingfollowingifollowingsingi williawilliammi boabomborn inln oxford massamassachusettschoseichusei s march 22yay 178337833.7831.783 danieldaniels bobbomborn in oxford massmassachusettsa chuseattschuseatts Janjanuarytary 23 1785 abbott bobbomborn inln oxford massachusettsmassa chuscchruscttektej february 23 17877 dolly born in oxford massachusetts september 1 1789 george born in oxford massachusettsmassa chusetts september 22 1791 stephen dudley bomborn in oxford massackmassactMassmussmassachusettsaclacT1usettst octoboctobaoctober 6 1793 lyhanlymanlyman bornborm in fairfield new york may aj9j9 1796 uzziel boabomborn in fairfifairfieldeldeid new yorkyorkyyorm june 16 1798 Susansusannahnahs bobbomborn in fairfield new york settemberSelseptemberser tember 7 18001.800 sarah bobbomborn in oppenheim new yorkyorks may 4 1803 Clarisclarissaciarissasatsas born in oppenheim new yerkyork may 4 18131833 8

71bibide william ward wight p 71 chapterCHAPTPRpp APTER I1liiIII111I1 I1

earbyEARLY LIFE

levi and sara wight had moved to fairfle3lfaI1 rf eldeid herkimer county new york in thehe month of march 1796 two months later on may 9 1796 their seventh child was bobbomborn when lyman was six yecyacyearsars old his family moved to oppenheim montgomery county new york where they remained until he was eight years old 9 lymaniymanlymans parents taught hiuhim to be strictly moralmorai andantianci perfectly honest lyman says that if there was any toralityimmoralitylintmoralitytora lity about him it waswras riotnot the fault of his pareparentsrits 10IO because they hadbadbaghag taught him to r4rarisenisese above all eevil1 11. lymans schoolischoolaschooling0 ng was veryveery limited he was keptbevahwevat at a CUMOTIcommon county school until he was old enough to help support his family at which time hebe discontinued except to go occasionally in the winter when he was not needed at home nhenwhenwhein llanlyanlyman vasvatsvakswaswats sixteen years of age he persuaded his father to let him go to worlworkworeic by the monthrtionartion th his reasons for doing so are interesting in ilclielightahtjht of todays problem with drop- outs

& 1 must say in honor cgicl to myY parents that I inW chiclsic it a was not their desire that I1 shouldS oalouiould go to schoolsclaclloolbool longelonger fronfrom the time I1 was old enough I1 took great interest in

lifordtwilfordgwilfordgWilford woodruff letterleeberleeheyleebey 10ibidibid 7 8

attending betingsuetingsuegettingsings aandno many timastimesinasimesines I1feltfeite14 seriously affected butbubub about the tinio I1 left school I1 began to feel as many other youngsters do thatt1ta latlal t thetrntwe pleasureseasu es of this life was abouabout1 allahtabt T should evrear get and iff I1 missed themthlrmr m I1 should tilstissirissluissri zi gocdgocclgocal chancedl1l rr I1 was lightig at minded fond of company and bitiwitiwithA 1 all quite fond of MUSICnusic and inin order to keep up my endemid worth the family and gratifygradify caldcgldsic myY feelings andendlindcind not fallfalifail behind in mvmy 1 anz allaliail youthfyouthayouthfulU caffercareercafeer I1 besought mynzv atherfatherf to let me go and work by the month lyman worked locally for the next six months thenthean in september 1813 not beibelbeingnc ableabieab k to enlist in the milmilitaryt ary because of his ageagey hebe toortooktomirmic another mansmaneman placplacee1 in the for wages the war vithwith greatgroahgroat britain was in process at the time so lyman was assigned to a captaincaptaimcaptairaCaptaira mcintyres company and sent to Sacsackettssacketossackefctskettsmetts harbordarborfirfic where hhe spent fourteen days the young soldsoudierso3dierler was thenthery seleselectedcteZ d as one of a guard to escort 12369236.92361 9236 prisonersprisonerc to greenbush whichwl ich was three miles below albany theme prisoners were delivereddelivadelivcrebnebred in good order after which the guard returnreturnedend as far as utica new yorksyorky where they were honorably released lyman had served two months for which he was paid sixty dollars he later recorded M went honhomhomee in good health and spiraspir3spiritsits although but 17 years of age I1 beganbegari to thinthink mmyselfYscalf quite a man pri12 the following september lyman was hired again to illliifillf another mans position in the militia this timecime helielleile vaswas paid thirtysixthirty six dollars a month and sent once more to Sacsackettssaclcettssacketosketts harbor he was now old enough to enlist but kept this a secret in order to receive the waeswageswa es he served

ilibidsibid 121bibidid 9 threeexeeUxeeaeeage months and returned homehointio vithviahvlahiriech onerone hundredhanhxn q red dolldollarscarspars lyman felt thatthutth tt he nasvaswasras man enough to locfcioqk out for

his own needs so in54 n cerzilnerdedecembercercenzilner 1814 he shouldered his knapsack and moved one hundred miles west to

T henrietta new forkyork after being herethere4 one year and earning five hundred dollars he returned to oppenheim when lyman was twenty years old his fathobathofatherzrar gave him leave to go and do as he pleased he took jobs wherever he felt he could do the best and in the year 1819 traveled as far as tipperlipperupper canada and back through michigan taltakingising odd jobs on january 5 1823 in nriettavhenriettahenrlettahenriettashe lyman married harriet benton after which with his new bride moved sisixtyltvxtv miles south to centerville where his father had previouslypreviopravio aslyusly settled 13 while they were living in that communitydommtommcommunit yo their first two children veirevereweirevecewere bornbornsborno theirr first child was a son orange lysanderlysanders bobbomborn nonovemberrember 29 1823 and the secondsecond was a daughterdaughters anna cnristchristchristinialnlainia born september 30 18251625 14 the wighfswightoswighton next movemovre was to 1warrensville7arrensvilleoWarrensville cuyahogaCuyahoga county ohio where they remained until 1829 their second daughter was born at warrensvilleWarrensville on november 16 1827 15 in may 1829 an important event in lyrnarslyinarts life transpired helielleile heard preach what was called

13w11anwilliam ward wight ppg 125 harriet was bomborn in 1800 in to john and sarah bradley benton3bentonbentono 3 141bidaibid 151bidoibid 10

4 a RrigdoniteregdonRigdonadongdon Aitete doctrilldockrilldoctrinedoctrill at ththe conclusion of a sesemonamionnmion on thetlletrieurle

41 principle of babibapibsptisnism fforfoesoeor the missionretiiss10remissionre 21 of0-1 sins lyman went forwardforward and vaswas baptizrbaptizerbaptibaptisedbaptizedsedsegd by hrml rigdonRA adongdon thus at the age of

3 thithlthirtynln three lyman embracedeanbaraacecL a speclspealspecificfic tenet of

he was scorned and ridiculed by several hundhundredredtedt ed personsp tteraterthaoth&j were present neverthelessneverthezthenviess he bcbecamecame a bold and fearlessearlesefearless defender of the rigdoniteRigdonite doatidoctidoctrinerlneinoine 16 prior to this 11imetime lymans only church attendance had been with the presby teriansterltemeriansriansans my vtirewife had been a presbyterian 0s13sic andan I1 frequently attended meetings with her and ny threet ree firfirstt childrench L I1 dren sprinkled but never believedbeillbellibelileved in any of the religreligious1 ous 4 coa L carrinacarrino lnainoana of the davday& inn risequencesequenceco4consequenceri 0of their not carrearring3naj c2i31s1cj out tyteupleephele wholele doctrine ofoll011 the apostlesapeistlesastles evereveaeveme bebelievingving that it took as muchmych to save a man in cnecueuneone age of the world as any other 17 in augushaugustaugusto lyansbyanslymans wife harriet followed iamamhimkimIihmlum into

the waters of under thetbcabckhe1 hands of sidney rigdon lishisnis life now took on F different perspective the scriptures became more importantimportantsanty and he began to study carefully the doctrine of the apostles the second chapter of the booleboodtboo3t of acts where it tells of the early sainsaintsts having all things in common hadhaa sspecialP en claicial impact on lvlymnshymnsamzmz in 0 s tldaldthinkingakinnkin9tat in consideration of this doctrine he traveled to kirtland to discuss it with and after considerable conversation on the subjectseubjecZ t these three men entered into a covenant to hold all aingshingsthings1 1 in coicorcommonramonrumonnumon askrs s they iadladhad1 anciently in conforconformitymittymiltymilay with this agreeagreementment lyman

16w13wilfordford woodruffnoodt uff letter 171bidibid 11 moved his ffamilyairain i ly to kirtland in februaryy 1830 they moved into the home of isaac Morlemorleyyv where they cocommencedramllnnocednnced their laborslaboralabiaboraoca togethertfogedge 1 her it vaswas notnolfnoff long until this little glgroupaupoup wasuraswras joined by eight other feimfaimfelmfamiliesA liesllesiles and together they worked unitedly to prepare for the millenmillenniumnimm which they felt was close at hand 18i ft

181bideibid CHAPTER IV

THE LAMANITE MISSIONMISSIOIN

in the fall of 1830 011olivrrolivarW 111 CowdercovderyconderyCovcowderypderyyp peter hikhithitmerditmerwhitmermer pazpax jun 9v parleyley P pratt and departed from fafayefcteYette new yorkyorks on a mmissionss on to the Lainalamanlainanitesnitesidulesies for the

1 417 1 church of jesus christ of0 J Ddvlatterlatterdayv 4 te rdday saints this vaswas in accordance with aca ireverireve1revelationatlon which josaphjoseph smith declared he c received in october of the same year 1 their destdestinationoest inaanatnat1ta oiioilorl was the state of missouri they continued theirtheair jouljourneyney untilunell they came to kirtlandkirfclandy ohio located in kirtland was a large nurnumbertiberciber of

muz 220 thig followers of the campbellite stoventovemoveraentmoveramovernduzmtrent1 at the leaderleederleeader of histhisthigthlthi 9 group was sidney rigdon who lived in mementorntlornelor parleyP rieyaleyrley rF pratt who had previously been a member ofolfoif the carnpbellitcampbellitczs and was a former amuaintanceacquaintance of mr rigdon persuadpersuadedd hir companions to stop and present their message to these people the result ubaswasuras the tonconversionversion of over one hundred

19thethe lake city the 0 salt turchchurchCIA of jesus christ of latterlatterdayday saints 195619561 p 32 hereafter cited as dae athis2this20this movementmovementsmovementc was initialinitiatedt ed by alexander campbellcampbelicammpbellCarccarmcamm pbell who emphasized a need for purificatpurificalpuripurlpurificationficall1la11lonion of the amerlAmeriAmericamericarxamericarncarnartantarx by restoring the PriprimitivenAtive church under the leadersleadershiphinhiD of men like s1sidneysaaey&ey rigdon many converts were organiorganizedzed into independent socieisocinisocietiesiesles MiltomiltonmlltonmiltonamiltonvnVV bazlbazibackmanmans 3 I1 k ameramericancan Relicreligionsrions and the rise 0ofL monnpnismotllbllonis salbsa I1t lalakehl e yoryoe companyt salt city deseretdesdeeeret lokbook company j956195677 p 245 f 12 13 peoplrpeoplepeopler includinginc06 ticlingticking sidney RigrigdonregdonJolljorljori 21 As previously stated Llymantimanriman nighthightwight had joinedseldneysuidney sidney rigdons group and moved to kirtland earlierealr lierllertier that year about this timetimietimte five farnifamiliesllesileslieS had concluded to join lyman and others in their carrimoncorrimoncorcowrimon410111 stock family since they each owned a good farm in mayfield seven miles up the river frofrol kirtland it was decided that lyman shouldmoveshould move his family there to preside over this branch the day he was pepaxingpreparingt eparingaxing to move was the salaesainesame day that the Larlamlartanitelamanitelanitetanite rnissionarmissionariesiesles arrived in kirtland he had his wagon abouaboutC half loloaded10 ededxded vwhenlaemiri these men approached himhint with the desire to introduce him to0o the bookboom of mormon 1 I desired themtherm to hold on till I1 golgot away as my business was of vitalvitai importance and I1 dldidd not wish to be troubled with romances nor idle speculators 22t22 the missionaries verewere undaunted but contincontinuedcontinundcontinuvidunduviduneulbeulye to persuade in a goodnaturedgood natured way until lymaslymants curiosity was aroused he concluded to stop for just a short time to hearnear what these strangers had to say A meetmeetingizIg was called aandanslisilsris the missionaries presented their message one testified that helielleilehad seen and another said that he had semseen the plates from which the had been translated 23 they told of miracles that had been wrought and how the gifts of the holy ghost were once again being

21parley21parley P pratt ed L the autobiogautobiography of parleypajlepjkejparker patpra& salt lake city 19387 p 48 lae 22wiwilfordiford woodruff letter 231bidibid 14 manifestfeshreshfest on thrtheahr earth because of ggretreatreau interinterestintereatesteat in thischiscl s message lyman remaliremained1 ed untiuntilI1 aimortimostalmost dardarrdarkV heflefie then tipletedcompletedcoltipleted hishi s packing and proceeded to his nevnew hotnbotnhomee

I1 mused myself by thinking that the trouble vaisvaswaiswas overovc-a andand that I1 should not see shenthewthemshewin again forffocor a long timetimer suppos- ing they would start the next roirodorningmorning fforor them western boundary of missouri but in this I1 was very much disappointed N2 the missionaries remained in kirtland for the next three weeks and succeeded in baptizing the whole of theehe common stock falfanfamilyMily lyman and his familyfantilycantily were baptibaptisedbaptizedsedzed on Novnovemberamber 14 1830 in the chagrin river at kirtland he was then confirmed a member of the church on november 18 and

ordained to the office of elder aioni november 20 thethesest 3 ordinances were performedpere by oliver cowderyCovcowdery 25 lyreanlyrnan relnelneirelatesketescatesgates this story in connerconnectiontion with his ordiiordiaordinationlation tot0 o dhetheche we travteavtraveledelec into the woods aboutcabout half a mile and placed ourselves behind a large oak tree after a most solemn prayer heheahen intended to ordain me a priest but ordained meiitlfalf2 to an elder he afterwards told me he donedaone isisisicesiccjjlsj itt lnY confconformity0 ity to a vocal vovoicevolcecgb but in these mattersrna41 ters I1 1 2620 conconfesseesscess ntymy knowledge was very limitedlimi 6 ed indeed when the larriLarnilamaniteanite missionaries were ready to Qdepart from kirtland they wrote to joseph smith and asked that sainsomeoneeaneeone be sent to preside 0overper these new cxinvertsconverts since lyman wight sidney rigdon and isaac morley had been ordained to the priesthood they were left in3nan charge until such time that joseph could send other leaders 27

24ibid241bid1 25ibid25 ibid

26lbid261bid 27praprattta t9 p 48 15 after sidnsic3neyr y rigdon lefleftloftt for neunevnenewu york to meetmeatmeaemenetmenee joseph smith lyman being the ononlyly elderelgereigerea deur in the axareaaceaaneaea vas int charge ofoffozl the branch 28 when learned of the

1 nanymany converts in the area of kirtland joseph sents 1 nt to preside over the saints in ohio 29 elder vhttitnnhikhiwhitinorwhitenorWhi tinertinortineeer arrived about the middle of january but soon discoverdiscoveredeolehlerd that the task assigned him was too difficdiffindifficulttilttiit to handle alone so he wrote joseph to come i1mmediateimmediatelyly to kirkirtlandeKirtkirac1cacland1landelandoand on february if1 1832 joseph smith arrived and took charge 9 but in the short time wight had officiatedofficiatedabed he traveled a disldialdistanceanceence of two hundred mimilesamilesyileslleslies baptized three hundred sevenitvenityseventythreeseventy three members and organizedorgani sedzed eight branches 30 during the time that lyman presided in kirtland thetho common stock familya Milyliy continued but hn jrjosephseph smith arrived helielleile asked that it be stopped in its place he received what his followers accepted as setting forth the true economic order for thrtheahr church A conference of the church was heidheldh jidyid at kirtland in junejunes s and at thlthithiss time the first distindistinctivedistinclivechivecLive to the office of high priest were made joseph smith ordained lyman wight hyrum snithsmith john murdocksMurdockiocks and reynolds cahoochoon211 to the office of high priest following a speech by lyman the prophet called on him to ordain nineteen of the early

28wilford28 wilford woodruff letter 29lucylucy mack smith histiahistoahisiojryfof joseehjosephjos smithsmith salt lake citescitys bookcraft 1958 ppv 191 30wilford30wilford woodruff letter 16 leadersloaders of the churchChurchuc tch to that high officeoff inciInclincludetincludedudetuden ai3i among ththosethotkelhotkeotke ordained ereeceverevecev josjosephctabqjb snosmithA i joseph smithsmiths sr sidnesidney1 310 & rigdodigdorigdonlrisrispi sabuelsamuel smith thamasthomas carshcaeshmarsh11 and parley P pratt following the ordinations lyman claimed to have seen jesus christ sitting on the right hand of god the fatherfathersFathersthero making intercession for his brethren thetha saints 323

4 he then prophesied of christs second coming and saidsald herethere4 would be some in the congregation whourho would live to see hishis fulfilledfu1fulfuff i lied 33 the day following thatthaetaclthcl t conferencecizinnocinnonnomnofereeerebeerenicerice joseph smith claimed further revelation from the lord it set orthfforth what

n was desireddes lredalred of the eldersr1 uniuntuntilgil they dekinetmetmek the nl-nertnextnera oonferelicconferencen to be held in missouriMissouassouri theme eiderselders were assigned theilthelltheirI1 respectiverespectrespeccibircivir companions to travel two by two to the statestato of

i- vayway missouri preachingprea ch iI1 q andbt11 d baptisingbaptizingbapbaa ntttisingi Zing on thee way lyman wsA s assigned to travel with the lardlordbardbord altoaitoalsoaisoaleo hhdcid a specific warning for Lylymanslyintanoclymansintano0 and let taytriytnyrny servant lomazlymazly7tian hightwight bebewareware for satan desirethdesireth to sift hirthim leraanlyraanlyra&nLyraan ascas chaffchafyzhady 34

on june 14 c in company with hyrum &smithlithlieh johnjohm corrillcorrillscorrallsCorrills and lyman lettleftlerklegh for missouri they traveled to fairport where they boarded the steztyrsteamernerspers williciaWillwillicimiainlainicim penn for detroit michigan

31journal31journal history of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints june 3 1831 located in church historians office hereafterhereaberea etereker re-referreda erred to as journal history 321bidibid 33ibidibid dac34d&ctd&c p0pap 52 17

1 I1 from4 detroit to jackson cotacountycoca ajyj thethavinVICI1 missiononFcariesrl 0S f traveled byhY ootfootsoot arrivincarriarrlarrivingvIncT on Augusaugushaugustvt 12912.912199 1831 debefore0re arriving john murdockmurdochbecamebecane ill and hdbf d to be left behind upon hish s arrival in Jacicjacksonson lymanlymen acquireacqmireciequiredd a horse and traveled the fifty miles back to bring elder murdockmurdoch to their destination 35 this thoughtfulness of others and devotion to the work was typical of lymas service in the church

35thethe histohi s torybory of jahejbhethe Ronireorqa jdzed church of jejesusSus ronijd x christ of lattelatterlattendazdajduaxduay sainain fcsacss tiedtlhdtindindependenependon ce ti71 s0ur hexa id publishing househouses 18961696 IT11 203 hereafterhereathereafceirssriter cited as history of the reorganized church CTRPTECTIAPTECTRPTER R V

AFFAIRS iniININT jacesonJACKSM COUCOUNTY1itylitycity

on september 1 1831 lymanslyman Is family arrived in jackson comity1cac having benbc en separated ffrowfromrortrorkeort himhinlhinthiml for three months now in addiadditioncionclon to preaching twice a veeweeit and traveling to surrounding cowitiescounties to46460lwo o engage in missionary work it vaswas necessary to carecace fforfoc the needs of his 11familyamilyssamilyamilesamilys heliefieife built a hortiehontiehomp and provided enough folfoodfccfoc d and lothingclothingrc to last sixs ix months thenthe n elnonern januaryjanuarjanuax y 26 1832 hehf left for

1 cincinnati orlorioin anoanotherither extended in1 J l company with parley P prettpratt john murdockmurdoch and levi hancoc he was away from home untuntil july 14 16321832 thenthenn returned to independenceindepertov nacrenncre with eliasellaseilasel as higbee whonwhom he had converted in the ivelveffiverive months that he was gontegone elder ightwight succeeded in baptizing one hundhundrededaedA people including the mg4ehiglicemgeee family thmahmtherere was an interestinginterusting story toldinboldintold in relatiolrelationrelatiol i to

A 4 t the conversion of the hibbhigbeeshigb s that gavegava insighinsightL as to what lyman was really liceilcelikeilkeilme since the higbees were fisherfishermenraen lymanlynian fished with them during the day and then preached in the evenings one eveningevesning they went directly from fishing spe to the murtcourt houcbouchouse 9 where lyman climbed on top of an old stove barelbaresbarefootedfooted with his trousers rolled up to his knees and hish s shirt sleeves rolled to his elbows and proceeded to preach for two hours the people that listened to himhint were

1838181.8 19 heardhea ririi 1 4to0 o rctnath he preached the truth though he does notno ma30 loo100 much ilkelikeilme a dreachpreacherrA m0 following the irtissartissmissionionlon to ufirufdrohio lyman continuedcont lnueet to Preadpreachpreamfis alabcabb lestlesuiesuleast five titleselneseinestimes a weeeemeektirtic aass atewteveilveliwellal as travel in the immediate area of indindependencetendenceoendencedenoendentedence to do missionary workvor and as a result of these labors succeededsuccr7 eded inm baptizingbaptising thirtythreethirty three people as members of the CYrchurchechurchyarchurchauch he also acted cs artan agent for ththeche3 church and was able to raise 1578 by sellingcel ling the following items eightyeiglnty head of cattle for 500 four horses 17517511 twentytwenty tctwo thothousandthowiandwiand pounds of flour at 2502502.502150 per hundred pounds 555500 pork 141 leather gogoodsods 72 corn 50 potatoes 75 and bacon 120 in additionadd1 cionelondion to thetine above dutiesdul dessjesssess he planted sufficient crops to sustain hisMs family and had enough surplus to sustain one noremore family 37

early in the monthmt nth of july 1833 a docidocudocuridocitientmienttentTient lmolalmolknown111yll as the 10 secret10secret nstitutioniconstitutioncm began circulating among the old settlers of jackson county it consisted of numerous chargeschargeechargeecha-rges against the saints and a covenant to see them removed frorfromaror1.1 the county on july 20 a group of missourians consisting of threethleelveeee hundred to five hundred memenmerr collected and demanded the discontinuance of t1wtawtheie church printing presspr 1 ass the closing of sidney Gilgilbertsbertts store and the cessation of all

36610 history of lyman wight millennial starstartstars XXVIIXXVTJ july 22922 1865018654550 455 37wilford37wilford woodruff letter 20 38 momhniclh inlcal labors afteraftertec the saints refusedused to meetml 7 et thestheethese demands 9 a mob destroyed ththeeheeho2 printing press and tarred acndandaclrcl feathered edvard partridge and brodrobroherdroherbrotherdrotherher charles alleaallenailenalienallea0 0 these activists would have also probably dest-destroyedroyed sidney gilberts store but1 u gilbert agreed to close it and startedsl artedactedactea boxboxinglilgalig1lig the goods three days later on july 23923 another group of missourians again assembled with their weapons of war in order to stop bloodshed some of the leading

0 brethren 1includingncludnulud1 ng dnleinanlyinankianglan entered into an agreementagreeraent with members of the mob to move with their families from the county on or before january ls1 183418 34 399 theythezy also agreed to persuade the remainder of the saints to leave the county andadd in return this body of merlmertmen was to use its infinfoinf3 luencebenceuence to stop violence despite this agreement the imobimobimori continued to attachattack the saints and in the midst of this persecution

ICadene lyman moved his fittilyfitmilyfcimily to the big blue riverrivea 0 at that lneinetinetimetemeadine church meetings were conducted in the woods for the safesaeesafety0 T of those who attended in septemberseptentiberilberciber a meetinamaetinameeting was held to appoint leaders over the various brandbranchesnes of the church in zionzionsziony and lyrnbyrnlymanaanuanaln was assigned to preside over branch number seven it iiss said that while at thisthastyas meeting WW phelps sang a heinnhanmhjnmhyinn in tongues concerning the travelstraveiswtravels toils troubtroublesless and

38timestimes indandz sezisonsseasons nauvoo ininolillinoiss I1 december 1839v1839 18

39joumjournalal hishistoryory july 23 j 1833 21 trltritribulationsbU I1 ationslons of theehe11 he nophitesNopnepmophites after ahnwhnshichwhichsch lynanlyman1 03rnan interpreted its contencontent1cac for the congregationccorcoycr1gr0 ationatlonaaion 40

on october01 tober 31 18331033liuiio33333033o the mobs renewedrenran awednwed their attacks in an attempt to drive the saintssaintsfromsaines from the county and their first initial strstrikeke was againstaga 1astnst the saints on the big blue rivelriver1 sinceS 1nce lyman had been selected and ordainedordtai p1pa ed by bishop partridge to protect the saints this resolaresoluresolute leaderleaieaderldere upon learning of the organization of a mob recruited ffiftyriftyifty men and sent thertheirthemtheinthern to the whitmer branch where he thought thethcjhc mob was headed immediately after the ifmendmnemn left lyman and elias higbeehighee being the only two men remain- ing behindbewbemlndand fowfoundtd the mob approaching theirtheair ohnoun brancbranchln it is traetrue we were somewhatsome w hat at a loelocioelosss to know what to dosdodoy lyman wrote we 0 0 but to let theatthem come would not do and storiedstoniedstratxiced out to see if we could make any discoveries of whawhat1cac ththey0yay were intending to do after traveling 34 of a mllemile we roundfound they were on the other side of the corn field fromsromsnora us taking some refreshments I1 told otheirbrotherBr hicbehibbehicbeehigbeecte if he would go round on one side I1 would thetheithegs otheother and in joke we would surround thenthem and if hehie heardheaed me fire my gun and holler come on boys to do the sainesainasalnasamesama at his end of the field on hearing this the mob imnediatelymediatelyimmediately fled hollering we are surrounded and never came near our branch afterwards aj4j1 the attacks continued against the branches of the church until one membermembers andrew barberbarbers 9 was killed and many

40farfar west record p 36 located in the church historianhistorianshistoriants ts offofficei ce tiusathisjthistias record was ththe131 conferenceconferencearence maimuimulminutesnutes and record book belonging to the high of jesus christ oflatterof latterlatherlatterdayday saints far neshnesbwest missouri 41 wilfordudiwilforaford woodruff letter 22 ofolff the saints bnabnbadlyadlydly beaten fonmehomesconme3 verevecevezewereweze dedestroyedasaas4 royedtroyest and muchmulch o-ofjIF the livestock belonging to the saivtsra3rtssaives iiasiisiasivasas turned loose richard mccarty one ofoc the mob was caught breaking intonto theu10Uuiemie 10 store ofoi gilbert and Atneywhitney141 and taken before a justice of the peace where he vasveswaswes medicaimmediatelyimimmedica telykely released not being satisfied mccarty then took out a warrant for the arrest of sidney gilbert and others for false imprisonment these brethren were found guilty and placed in fallfalifalfaijailjal 1 424

va 4 r1ra on november 5 independence was crowded withv1 ihi h flankymany men armed with guns and other weapons who were desirous ofOZ killing thcthejhc1 mormon prisoners the militia was called ouloatout and placed under the corcmandconunandcoracorcmand of colonelcolocoionelnei inhothomasnias pitpitcherplecherpie evierevler but this militiaini litiailela consistedcansisconsishedted mainly olof01i the mob on hearing of thlshltheshe7 troubles in independence and fearing for the safety of the prisoners lyman raised what ferclforclforce he could which consisted of about one hundred men and proceeded to that alaciplaciplace s they arrived about sunrise and formed their line of battle west of town james brackenBracfeenrhenhren a membermeamber of this force later related what took place as he renrememberedemberedumbered its the mob was there numbered I1 should judge about 500 men lyman hightwight started to meet thethebthew commanderconurnaadernder of the mob and he the colcoscommanderlandertander of the mob started to ineemeetmeeht lyman wight his name was pitcher under rarankraliklikilk of colonel he approached lyman with hahis0 s hand upon his sword whileothileothlie lyman walked up to him in his shirt sleevesleevess and bare headed in an easy careless kind of rayvaywayyay and held out his hand but pitcher refused to take it and still held hish s hand upon his sword this was the cowmen cement of the treaty which ended in our leaving thethe1they1 county the agreement was that we

42journal history november it1 1833 affidavit on the subject by lyman wight 23

should leave the county inside of 10 dasodysadysodavs our& crops ata 1 the titimeme waaweavarewerewareoe standing in the Aieldleidbeldfield wh16whichL vavov4re cccouCOL idld not gather the principal part of the brethrlbrethelbrethrenrm ccrossed&1 s Z 3 the 4 n1na L co 0ouru companym ny went aezwez missouri ver clay c0 1 vent est tsourissouri riverr into r 4. leasllleaselearbeasheasb and settled in Lafayettelianfayettmyettayettemyettee2 cocoe 434

lyman reported that as a result of this izteetmeetingrigalgylg vithwithW3 L 11 colonel pitcher an agreagneagreementmient was adopted that latterlatterdayday saints would relinquish their aitsabtsabisanisabieamis if the colonel would seize the arms of mob pitcher cheerfully agreed to these terms and pledged his honorhoYN oa that they would be met wigikightwightwrghtlt and his men then returned homehornehonne feeling assured that they would no longer be molested however according to lyman wights testimony colonel kitcherlPitpitcherlpitcherspiecherlcherr s agreement with him vaswas never kept and the mobs were never disarmed in fact the next day the majority of the militia had joined the mob including pitcher they divided into gangs of sixty to seventy men and went from house to house driving the saints from their homes and threatening the lives of women and children if they did not leave ththee county 1immediately 444 lyman andaridarld his family were among thoethosechose driven froc their horteshomes whwhilellelie he was spying on the mob to detect theirth ir movements he vaswas discovered and about sixty men startedstar fc ed after himhinn aleaieAltalthouchalthoughhouch he had only a common team horse which had been borrowed from samuel drollingerDrollingero he vaswasvresineknavreinesknas s able to elude them his pursuers had managed to run him to a deep

43statenentstatement made by james B Bracbrackenbrackenskentmentmens november 66pap 1881 located in church historianhistorianshistoriantstss offiofficeorficerdecderae in fileflie ofor james B ackensbrackensB t achens personalpetrsonal papers 44ttimes1 andaanand seasons nauvoo Tillinoisalinoisl IV july 15353.535 16431843 2632631 2r 1 I washout for the purpose of cornering him but to theirtheinW astonishment as well aass thebheuhe astonishment off 1theehehe brethrenbre th ent who werewere vm4vmswatchingahxh angvng ffroiaroraroyaroyc the hilishills1d lis uhenwhen he reached the durrfqurrf his horse cleared it in& n afetysafetyssicsinbininabety and the rob did not detre ffollowol01 loviovlow 45 while lyman vasvaewaswae fleeing to thtahtthea south the mob returned and droved-rove his family fronfrom their homehoine they vent north across ththee river into clay county and forfor thathe next three weeks lyman did not know of theirtheletheiatheijr fate kehe was unable to leableamlearn that they verewere living on thetheithel banbauhaubanfcskibliz of the missouri river with very little food or clothing and being sheltered only by a tent made ffromroniromi rag cacarpetr pet lyman vaswas not doing much better for at olleolonele point he ventwentveneveanevenne three dri without food most of0 7 thetlletile approximately one thousand jackson county saints suffered a fate similarsimasim3 lar to lainslyinslyL1 insmoans according to lymanlymants testimtestimonyony recorded a fewreeeee years iterlter ini A nattNatinauvoovoo the mob buniesburnesburned two hundred and th-threeree homes and one grist mill 1 I saw 014 heho declared one hundred and ninety womenwoman and childrenerdord idtenideen drivend iven thithlthirtyrtyarty miles across the prairie in the month of vebarnovelarnovebarnrveiNrNonaveivelveividar vithwithwi 11i three decrepit renmen only in their corconcompanypandtpanytpanye thephe groundg-round was thinly crusted vitwithwik h sleet and I1 auldmuidcould essisilyeasily follow on their tralltrailt-crailuralirail by the bloodsietthat flowed fromsrom their lacerated feet on the stubble of the burnt prairie 40

45statement45statement made by james B bracken november 6 1881 located in church historianhistorians office also related in wilford woodruff letter 46joseph466 joseph snoiesmithh fist of the1 churcchurchh of desustesusTe sus christ of latterdazday sgjhtsalnaalnasHZs ed akobkobifbtfH robertsjslljj6sitaltsikSa it lake fc company slt i u cityt5ttyt Deseredeseret book Companyshz11948 P iilttiititailtIII111 439 hereafter ccitediuted as DHC 25

afteraslerasker lyman loclocatedlonatt kd hisMs family he erected ar mak-4mam aka eshift shoebshoe2shelterliterkiter under a fallen sycainoresycamore loglogo whilewhtiewhale living in thistills deplorable conditioncondit 1 01 oriorlononi december 27 18331833y lymaslymants witewife gave birth to their fourth childchilds whamwhom they named lehi CHAPTER trVT

ZIONS CANPCAMP

the exiled saints in clayc3aycaay county decidedde c11idedaided that some- one should be sent to kirtlandkiiklikiv rtlandartland to inform rrosecrosejosephph of their condition and seek his advice as to what should be done understandably the men veleverewerevepe hesitant to leave their families in such azi poor m11ditionsconditioniconditionsconditioniionslons but lyman oluntearedvolunteeredvolunteared to make the jounijourneyey he was asked if the conditionconditicabitica ofot7 his famsamfamilyly would permitpermitA t himMmmm to departdcpartpaet andaridarld he replied thatteatkhatkhal hah4his wife lay in the woods vithwith a three day old baby and she had provisprovisionsons for three days so he thought he was as well offofeose

0 as anyone lyrianlymaniyman had no way of knowing that this trltripP voukvou3wou3cs61 last over five Tmonths parley P pratt volunteered to travetravelI1 with him so they began theltheitheir1 preparationspreparepreparz4 lior to leaveI1 franfrom parleys autobiography we leableamlaam what these preparationsprepara Iidondonaon consisted of as well as the conditions wlderiderunderwidermider which they traveled both men were destitute of proper clothing for such a journey and neither owned a horshorsee saddle or bridebridlebrid e they also lacked the necessary provisions to care for the needs of their families although the jorityboritymajorityma of the salnisainisaintsaintss were living in similar circumstancescirctnostancoes they were willing to share what they could until pratt and wight were outfitted and ready to aogo thus and the blessings of god had

26 27 47 cleared up our vayway to accomplish1 ccojichoji 4 ahatvhat59111911 at seseemedseeseme1ed impossibleimtpass blebre they traveled evereveryv day gaxdlessgaudlessregardlessre of0 the weather

bycvyc 1 and vecewereweceA e able to znpletecompletectol th journeyboivejoive ney without mishapI and lacking nothing in tl-theehee vaywayuraywray of necessitiesties thaythey had left clay countcountyY on january 12 1834 and arrived in kirtland 021 february 22 48 when joseph ioasivastoaswas told of the condition of the saints it is reported hatthatt he burst into tears and exclaimed oh my brethren my breabrenbrethrenthren would that I1 had been with you to have shared your fate oh my god what shall I1 do in such a trial as this49thisthiso4949 two daydaysdaye later the high councilcouricilcounci1couricil was called to a meeting to hrarhoarhranheanhoan the report of lyman and parley osephjoseph0 smith proceeded to give instructions3 V to the brettbrethrenw en which were accepted as revrevelatione bationJajationtion wvithwithiilh specificspazcific instructions fforroror lymanilymansclymans is ntyutyrayrny will that my servant parley PR prathprattprathe and my itservant lyman wight should not return to then land of their brethrnbrethbrethrenbretbreialrenairenrn until they have obtainobtainedced companies to go up into the land of by tends or by twenties or by fifties or by a hundredhundreds 9 until they have obizdnedobtained to the number of five hundred of the strength of vmyluy house 50 the revelation also stated that if five hundred men could not be obtained that no less than one hundred would be acceptable lyman was to travel with sidney rigdon in

prate47pratt47pratt p 1083083 08 48hist28hlstodlr oflf thnahnfcheache reosalzedreo anizelanizedherclhercihbrclchurch llyII11 401t401e 49luclucyy macmack smith p 225 sodac 1033 2829 search ofot utntecrsvolunteersvo AsA a result of this rcetingrcrcetingruetingmeetingcatingcetingetingelingeuing what came to be knknownoin as zionsZ on s camp was ororganisedorganiorganizedYaniyanizedyana sedzed with joseph smith as conrnandca i chief before leading kirtland14 lyman vaswaswias given at special blessing by the prophet joseph he was told that hone was of

1511.51 jou threthe lineageiiilii felnnelnage of tjoeephJosephjosephjrjosephertocfoc eph jr whow1ntwant vaswas sold into egypt without ama1cfamationamalgamation ofoje blood vr5ltt

T within the nexnext week all necessarynocessary iiarrangementsrrangeizzt antis verewere dademademlade and those called by the lord to gather voltnjoltnvolunteersintetc rs forror zizionsonos camp had left to fulfill their assiassionnieutnirninrientrienegiene lyman and sidney travearavetraveleded first thlthroughough pennrylvaniapennsylvania

ri 1 and new york in company with joseph snithsmithSL 6 4 h after vinchwinchwhichwhich theytheatythnaty returned to kirtlalkirtlankirtlandd then the lustlaseluse of marchmarciamarca lynian ventvenh with hyrum smithsn 4 th elijaheli jah fordham and scmicl lintjintjlntjant to michigan

1 in search of additionadditionalX l volunteers and also to preach the gospel1 wherever possible

prior arrangement had been made to meetmeeb joseeljosepljosephsI1 s company on salt river in missourimlsMiS SOUM so on may 5 lraleianldalyianlylannn and hyrum along with the eighteen men they had been able to recruit left pontiacpontiac michlMichimichigangain for the trip to Missomissouriutri vithwithth lyman actingacachingung as steward for the company according to forsharfordharForfordhampordhamdhardham who acted as their historian they passed through ann arbor Jackjacksonburgsonburg spring arbor constantine elkhart crossed the river one ilelleliemilemllem1ma below ottawa and then procaedproceedproceededd through pleasant grove pelcinporpocin quincyqu 4 ncyjo

511dlfowilfordrd woodruff letter 29 antandant11 palmyra thy reached szsassznsansaltsalesaieN ij rinrixrivarrivedpiver in missouriM on jtjulejunelne 8 1834 and fourdfoundfoung josephjosophfc C1i-n smithlsmithsdt NIssyo corinaconpnycorinp iny vailingavailingwa leliel fforroror them 5522

with theeheVviete arrival of lymanlymansclymanss group the comizttlyconpuycorconconquypuy riol1101now110177 numbered tvotwokwo andredhundredYrundred fivefivasivesiva menomennmeon the camp vas reorganized with joseph smith as cormnandercoimcormnander in chief and lyman wight as general or second in comandcommandcomnandmand before leaving salt river lyraalyradlymana took the troops 0 the prairie where the leadersleadars1eaead nrs insptninspanincpecbedctedacted the firearms of tletiethe menmentmens and the memberstrtertibr rs of zions cacaimpcampimp had target practiprackipracticece andcand 53co ththenyr4yra drilled for half a day before returning to camp the catnipcamp departed flfromorm saltsaitsali riveriverr on june 12 aadand the next fefewferyey days varevereware spent in travel on sunday june 1515y parley P praleprattprate and orson hyde relurreluereturnedi tc d from a visit to Gcgovernorvernor ofc-l missouri vlthwlthwalth the disheartening news that he refuserefuscrefusedld to fulfill his prepromisei aiismarism to support the

0 efforts of zions camp in reinreinstatingstaingtting the missouri saintsszantsintsit on their owl land 54 up to this tinetintetinie the governor had consconoconsistconsist-ist ently maintained that the saints had a right to be reinstated andc iff necessary he would call out the latebateslatestates ntmilitialitia to accomplish this objective 553 the camp had constant threats from the inhabitants of that state and had to be on the alert at all times they

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1 veieweiewelvehweh e also running shortshorechore of supplies ada 1il hadhed tottofcotco ilseiiseliveI1IVCIlvcy Fiilmosfcillili 3 t enkentirelyent 1 1701y on coincoimcoyn nuealneannamezilgtig119 ancanotherhvxr problem that plagued theahethraahra

carlpcacarrpn P wswa S insuinsubordinsubordinationbord nat 1 yri 31iyanlymn TOS notmot vywithouttltiloiotattzt repereproachoa ch iinn this regard for hehezhen too ventwent against the counselcouriselaurisel of the commandercorrecorneconnewandermander indn chieftchiefschi ef joseph smith oneone june 17 ththee catir had crossed the makendwalendamagenda river where it was reported that a rrogroupcroaro ap of mennetennesen was gathering ori011oyi the missouri riverrivedRI1ver ITithvithviehwith Iintentions1 ofOJ

1 attackattackingI1 ng the saints the prairie that lflayy ahead was twentythreetwenty three miles long with no timbertimtimberstimbergbeirbersbelA or healthy water so a

debate arosarose as to where ththeythuyI1 y should cainaainpcmp some felt that they should stay near the timber butbultbuttbuld joseph and his brother

hermnhyrmnhyrxnn counseledcounsaledeled thethelthea brethren to gathegatherr woodvoodwood and viaviaieatervaterwaterI andcaliaoaliacalixcalicalaoala A carry it onto the prairie when lyman crossed the riverniverrivert hehc disapproved of moving out of the timbertinttimeber so he and sylvesterSyI1nir s I1 el smith and those whom they were able to persuade to remainrem CO r campedcarricaraicaratpedpod near the ririverver the next rtoiatoiroomingnina they arose anaarmandara proceeded to the cantcampcanecamep of the majority who hadhtada moved s0sasome41iitz eight miles onto the prairie when they arrived joseph called themtherathernthena together and reproved therrthem for tarrying behind and not obeying counsel lyman promised that heho would stand by joseph forever and never again1 forsake him 56 lyman later reported that he remained behind because he vwascas jealous of hyruniflyruxti smith but heh k no longer felt any hardness towardtowtomcard lihimlm 57 dissension had been a problem from the time theeneune camp

beanbegan its Jjourneyourneyp9 and joseph had previously prophesied that

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yera ei r ids ozodl june 21 chocholeraiera strudurusurustruck thetlle catcaucaupcampi p aarldandaridrid buforeb3fore it suloulsubsidedils sixtyeightsixty eight of the saintsA hhadhedeidcid suffered from thetha discasedisease and fourteen of these died it is claimed that it i-vasi as not until the camp made a covenant to obay godsgod cortinconnnandrnentscontinandretentsandieandreandintentstenes and 59 fillolfollolfollonfollovr josetjosenjosephsjosetphsphs counsel that the plague wsvaswas s-stayed1- ayed although there is evidence that the lord was dspleascddispleasedspleascd ilithrithwithmith the camp for their disobczdisobedience4 thethererc is also evevidencedcxnce that he was watching over thcjhcthemznan and protectingdrotecting them from their enemiesencumies at least this vaswas the feeling ofoffofm those present in the camp as well aras membersruemberss of0 the nobsnodsmoxmobsmonoxnomx showho

c1 were eolfoLfollowinafollowinglowina them on ononee occasioncaslonoccasion thekieklelie camp hhdhidCAid sstoppedtoppe for the altnltnightahtght on elevated land between little fishing and

A big fishing riverspzivexs As thrahrtheyy verewere preparingpreparng for theahealte rightra j 1 it 0.0 five men rode into catap swearing and inbtiiig thrathrethreatsnatsmats thatthai ththe brethren would see hell before nonmorningmonaing they said some three tndredandredhundredhulhut men had gathered and swim tlthee utter destruc- tion of zionszionts camp while they were in camp thrtheahr wind began to blow and the rising clouds and thunder indicated that a shonnshormstorm was approaching A tremendous storinstorm of wind rainr stinxin and hail was somsoon upon thenthem and any design the mob mayw7vty have had was frustrated lyntaclyntalymastills account of this incidentaidentincident iiss as ffollow011owsfollowsisiI1

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10 about theche seating of ol01fthfrhle snsulansulun th cloudsCleIrIs coimpncod 1 rising vittvietvithviehg t a frigfrighbfal4 appcurarice Heheaviersecavichecaviccavickaviedavic I ththunderader or ISsharper lightning probablprobablyv nonewerer hendheard or seen thetho 4 heraherd 1 1 anca riaigiairainn coralcomalcommencedrtcnriced faafa3falong111 in torrent znananc3d continuedcomntinued nearly through the ninnighti gh thofthorthoethocN fcioacio riverszivers increased fro a low ebb to formforimsorm sixtlesiptleixteondn to tntytantyw anty3nty ftfc elt of watervteriteritelterr over- fflowing the bottombolll11 te ra for severalrztevpra 1.1 miles this proved however to bs a beneficialbeneficlalraldal circumstanceJ to ussus as a mob hahadd collected on both sides of the road and greerevareverewere rapidly increasing in numbersrCs vithwith a deierminationdeterminationgerminationermlermi nation to 4 fall upon us histhisthiethle1 night thirty or forty ooforr udsthis ituobbobhobio crowded thenthemselvesthemselves into an old cabin n and inq endeavoring to hold their horses by their idlessbridlesbr 9 many of them were severely injured by the falling of the hainhailhallhali about three miles from wherevincvingxv we ericaencampedariedmried the hallhailhalihailstonesstenesstanes fellfelifeil ffromrom tthehah6 sisizezeszev of a rifler 1eae ballbailb tletimtlqI1 to that of turkeyturkeys eggs 6060

momelromez A yas it vaswas reported that oneromel of the miss011missouri1icansiconsans was killed by 13ahtninglightningahtning and another hhadd his hand torntorm off byy his horse dravingdrawing it between the loclogsjs of a corn cricrlcribb wlraivhil3le he vas holding the reins on the othotherothearfarferear sideeldebide Accordiaccordinging to joseph smith members of the amobmobimob declared that if that vaswas thttheaht way godgoc foughtfought ffor0r ttheehehe mocomonsmomonsrmons ththeyiyay numightig-ht sisaisalsas urevreveilwellweli11 go aboababoubC1 boutboueit tracitheirt1acir business 61

fitaitfat cricrlcn june 22 1834383438343.834 on the fishing rivelriver P whatf1t was purportedpurpo tedeed to behe a revelation waswaeas received by the prophet joseajoseqjosephph giving furtheburthefurtherK instrucitinstructionsionslons to the camp theythcytheytacy were told that in conseconsequencequerquen ce ofC f the trlnsgresstransgresstransgressions3 1 of the s3dnts it vaswas nonow expedient that the redemption of zion be postponed for a season it is p-probablerobeablerobrablebeable that such things as ctoverceovergovernornor 9 dkliwsdunklinsdunklingDunklins decision not to supportsupport tthetisilaibs salsaasaintsnts and the ffailureai ure of the elders to respond to the call to go to zion and rel-relievei eve

goli6011 lir historytamt2m oforJ the reolcilrreorqanxzednzedneed churifnchurchy 1j1I1 471 61dhc2DHC liilirIIIII11111 105 33 thebhekhethenkhen sulssalsaintseaineseninesul there playaci a partpare in thithlthisc decisiondacdec E those whoulowlm couldco-uI1d wyretvmyreere to remainregain irin that region butbusL those aj1jvithwichwlchilail101 frolicsfrdlicsf 2 in the easaaseast 1 duldwuldwotild be callowalloweded trto return 6 m theph 1 clow030wowingilg day tthe1 e czjnpcarpcamp proceefproceedproproceededceef A to brother AlgeArnalgernonaigernonolnorn sidney Gilgilberfsgilberdsgilbarttsbarttsberttsbarats resitanoresidanoresidence and camped anon theahethett tanktanabanabankhank of rushrazrxzsh Ceeekbeekcreelsyeek there a councilotuicotui ci I1 of high plpriestslestsbests aejnbled and a number of the elders were chosen to receive znana LA e-ondovleiayla 01ost0177 ment from onmn high lyanlydanlyman vasvaswas amkamzairongaifongong thothoseseA selected andcand tearvasteaswarwas told to go to kirtland to rectrecereceilrecellreceiveI ive this endotiertt and thenthen return to zion 63

lymanlyin&n did not return to kirtland immediateiirnqdiatelyimmediate 1 Y in fact hahe roiirarremainedined in zion fforyoryocr the suinmersuineulneninsturarnexnernarmer heeleete reports thlthbjhb he buihulhuibuilfc a house fforfocor a colonel arthurarthur ininiinaink clavclayclaw comityC t which

1 x 6 4 1.111 91 11 L heho thethenl renrentedledked for hirhinhimselfisetse LL it vasvacwarwaskrs6916 aatt this hohousehouberi tthatala the high priestspr3pra ests of zion assassembledambled on july 33vav 3834383.8 34 and joseph

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vycas tacidd W11 1111 whitmer 3 ordainordainedd as presidepresident1 t4c with phelps andantlanelanoanet jfihnjolm whitrieruhiuhlwhitikerwhitinerWhi triertiner aia hisMs assistantsassistantedistante the high1 coucouncilclcilmicil coasconscoconsistedas 1 ster3stera rofjf simeosimeona carter v711liainvjiliiam E mocellinMOmlellinsmolellinMLellinsLellin levi Jacjackinanrinankinan christian

mcameamcm t3T3 parley r nhitwhitmerWhitwhitmcmwhitmamrt orson prsitttpruitttP laittbaitt thomas I1 marsh parlparipirleyy P pratt cala-caldcaidcalvinn beebe Hancohancockcc nevellneveilnewell knight lynanlyman wight and jojohni Murdocmurdochmurdockjc 65 joseph then authorized generalgen-raieral lyman wight to dischdisdisdargedischnargedargenarge ththeN members of zionszion camp and permpermitit them to

62dhcMC pri 108111108 111 63farfar west record appp 414241 42 64wiallfordwilfordiford woodruwoodruffsefSEE letter fac65farfar west record p 43 34 return home wilford woodriffwoodrnffwoodruff reqojrelojreportedrtedarted that hehse spentspener Pcn1c the summersunnmer with lycnanlymianhymian in missourimismlsmisseseuriurl where ththytheyMy culcutcuet wheato qiaarrquarried rroccocock and made brbricksbrecksexit 666

in decedecadecemberabermber lyman boucboughtzrarht a ffannariaarlaarin sevenaareeremr aavrvr nalesI1 e eeasts k of coloffcolonfcolonel1 arthurs rhexwhexwheree he moved with his family hihiss eteffortsforts for the next ththreeteehee months were spent in preipretpreachingpeetrichingriching the gospel in the reafreaareaareaF around his new home then on march 13 183516155 he left ferfor cincinnati preaching oiioiaon the way his purpose ihiriirl going was to lengthenrengthenstrengthenslrangrengthenehenkhen thetho church in that area in addition to strengthening the existing membership he laslbsIBSvaswas also succassfsuccessfulul inliaa bcaptizbaptizingtingiengitng a large number of nevnewr meibersmeubersmeumemmomhersbers ho arrived bacbae c in clay county on may 18 having been gc n two months 67 on august 21 the high council of zion netmetmehmebmgt at the home of lyraianantan wightmight to hear the rereportport of somaomeanncaragI olof01 ththea

1 I missimissionariesodaronariesles while theyuheyL h y vurvucverchevundrecreverewerewenevercreverdrecne ththeretheraera johjonjohljohijonii corrill emtereclterecaenteredt a complaintcorriplaintcorricorniplaint against larranlyrranlynianlyntan for teaching thathatt aliail1 I aallI1 I1 elioiloiidiseaseseaseseame in this chirch is of the devidavid0videvil1.1 and that medicinemedicane admaadministered1 i iffisf ered to the sick is of the devil for the sicsib in the church ought to live by faithfalth llbalb lyman acknowledged that heho had taught the doctrine andendandsends furthermore he believedbeliezvea it colcorrectcoyzoy rec L the president decided thathatthae1cac it vaswas not lawful to teach the church that all disease is of the devil butbullbutlbulk itif there is anyone who has this frithfaithfalth let him have it to himself andanecand if there are any who believe that roots and herbs a6ministeadministeredaredacedwred to thethlethie sicicsicrosicko and all wholesome vegetables which god has ordained forfocnoc the use of man and if any say that suchsu&nsuan t1drtilingsbilingsgs applied to the sick in order

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1 that they may receive health and this rmmedicinejicjir i-j e is appappliedlived byhy any ancmncmembernltibarulbartibar olo01ofL thech B churchcharcalarchlae 4e tharetherethxtax re areCiarelare anyeny if 0 among youyon tintthat teachtecich that these things auareaceazeO a of stanshanS t21 rI1 such teaching is nonotnoe of god 68GS the latter palcpartpact of september lyrianlynian leleft27 t for I1kirtl- and to keep llisflisMs previovpre rj uv rs appointmentappoji Mt and there receive hhis heH also preachedp I eachedbeached as he traveled andcand visitedvisitcmd the branches of the church on the way while in richmond indiana elder wight announced hisMs intentions to preach which drefdrexdrewgrew many threatsthlthareats from the local citizens according to lyman these people 3ntendedintendeduntended to tar and fartherfeather him despite the threthreatsatsA the appo1ntmappointment2 nt vaswas kept the hall had no lighting so lymanlyreanlyrnan purchased candles to provide light for thethetthes eveningeveningseveneveningoingo the hall wavahwah 4 soon

L filled with mmenen equipped vyi4with1 h tar and featfeathersseat ierslerslereaers vithwith which they intended to carry out their threats evidence of lymLynlymastanshans courageous is here manifest for he arose and spoke for two hours and reproved the menraen for their meanness wickednessVickedness and mobocratic spirit at the close of the wetingmetingmeeting wight asked for an invitation to stay the ninightahtght which was readily given he was treated well and given money to aid him in his journey 69 lyman arrived in kirtland on november 3 in company ithvithwith george H and lynanlyman smith and attenatkenathenattendeddecldeci the school of the until the middle of januaryJanuarv 700 68farfar west record appp 636463 64 690rournaljournal Histohistoryrytcys december 31 183518 350 70thisthis schoolsclaoo1100.1100 was estabiestablishedi shed at kirtland to prepare the elders to go into the world and preach the gospel 3536

0 while attendingttetctetnd iolo101.0 thethaI- I ct schoolcarc of0 P the prophetaxpx lanhlynnlynh receivereceivednidned the endonaantnendowaentec hehlenhaeahaen had been PIpromised1 40MI sed and vaswas also hanji given a under the handsds of jqsephjosephjosseph sismithpsmithylitiltailtn 2 senior it wswaswes anon decDacdecembercraber 29 18351335 that thehe pipatriarchalcttrizarcilai11111 1 11 blessiblessingblessinrynernryney was given irin which the folfoifollowingloving pertinent counselcouns A was received the enemy willwi seel to destroy thee for he will trytny to lift thee illiiiliiup inln pride and make thee thin mucimuchj of thy- 1 ceicaicesmid c self for thy eloquence 1 but behe ccareful andendtid notnoenoetnote lelletiel ttheh tao1- pride of theL he heartheare nstroydestroynestroyde thee for thou art caledcalled to10 preach the gospel of jesus efenerenevenwren thy Rredeemerzdeemer to the ends of the earth and if thothouu art falthfaithsaithfaithful9 rulfulrui in keepkeepingi11ict the conmandrnencornimandmentsbs ofoi1 theC he lord thou shshaltshaleshaie7aitbaiteble havehavo powerpoorer to prevail withicikiqik h hinhim thatmiatchaawhat he will deliver thee from the grasp of anemicseneraiesanemieseneanemlesmiesraiesrulesnales and bring theethentherstherb triumphanttrkjitinhaiitte thin 71 oftoff over all the powers of0 L dartaiessdarkiiess lyman later made the following commentscorinconincoren tnientsmients latingrelatingriarin to these blessingblessltngsblessingssss 1 father smith in my patriarchicpatriarchictlpatriarchicalpatriarehicehirebareb1 catlI1 egsic l blessing pronounced memc to be of the lineage of joseph whoanowromno feisfelsvasv sold intoint0 o egypt without mixture of blood simeon cartercart er done es2esasic3 theie amesmesainte while washing my feet in the house of the lordjordloydjoydi joseph blessed memte many tinestimes niletwhiletvrTorxor in jail and prophescied c310sic much on my headhead and gave mem muchrrmzt h J a 1 722 good instructinstructiinstructsinstructioni olmi0111 iacliaalinclblohhlohi is long tolriuri be rememberedreaiembtn-eq shortly after the first of thecheuhe vearyear josepjosephll11 smith sent limanlynanbynanlymanbyman ariarlon a special mission to raise funds for the

s prophets sustenance hehc1 traveled one hundred tweeltwenltwentyY miles and returned the last of february with five hundrchundrichundredid dollars he remained in kirtland two days and then departed for new yorkyoek to visit his mother he was gone only a shorshort1

I 71thisthis patriarchalpaipapatt riardnal bless-blessinging iiss on file at the church historianhistorians TiCeofficeOfwicemice 72wilford72Wilford woodruff letterjetter 37 tinetime but was able to present hiss rotherotherfothereothermotherrr r stithv ithirith the gospel

1 help message6- before she died there is no indicatiindicateindiindicationcatilonion asciseiscas to herhele reaction to this message from march 10 until april 5 183018361830 leinanlyinanlyirtan leporreportsrepor ILLs that he was busy in organizing preparingprepaxl jng9 and aviagivingving the endoendownentendowmentendoviptentwnent and participating in the ordinance of washing of feet he then left to return to missouri where he arrived the first week in may 733

73wilford73wilford woodruff letter CHAPTERCH APTER vitVII

rP THE MOVE TOA 0.0 CALDWELL cometyCOUNTYCOMNTY

during the last oofoifoffoieIF june 1836 a actingmeetingmc vasvaras hnheidheldid I1inli liberty missouri to discuss the continued immigration of into clay colcountyunitaunitv it was solvedresolvedve that in light of the many differences in and the old settlers and the fact that the Moxmormormansmormonsmansmons had originally intended to remain in clay county but a short time that it was of the utmost importance that they 1001 for a nevneneww home before there was a reoccurrence of the troublestrembles th-thatat iadladhadllad1 taktakenbarenbakenhak ramCAM place in jackson countycouney 74

.1 nuyz anlerohlerobler lriali on july 111 383638363.83618365 1 a large numbernuz onler of elders met inlli clay county to decide whatwhat acCiactionsons should be taken on the

4 part of the church in regard to0 o the resolutions ofol01 thetiletlle clay county resresidents3 den A committee of twelve was appointeappointedad3d of which lyman was a member 9 and they resolved that for the sakesaitesare of peace and friendship thrtheyahr4v bouldvouldwould leave the county despite the loss of property and expense of momovingvingilvingel1 thoseTIioselose in attattend-nd

unions ance1 at the meeting unanimously adopted the resolresolutionsututionsionslons of the committeecommiztee and appointed lyman wightelight thrahrthomasmias B marshy and to carry the minutes of the meeting to the r citicitizenszenns 0ofL clay county upon receipt of these minutes the citizens of that countycouney resolved to aaidaldd the mommormonsons in

74dhc74dhco IITI11 448452448 452 3833 39 fedjfndjfinding a icvncv location and to solicit funds to help theirtheimthelm 7 moymove1 5J

soniatimeSoniatime in tafthfthej month of deptoseptoseptembersberbec 1636 an area in nortshenorthernrn ray countycowatymaty on shoal arrecrrecreolek was selected as the newnow gathering plaaplampiamplace ofoft the saints and members of the church1l bboaganfeganaeganoagan the journey to their nevnew hoirehomehoine 76 As the number of saints began to increase a petition was mademede to the state for an act of incorporation for a new county which would be named caldwell county about tthehe middle of demdecemberabermber their petitionpe4pea 1.1 tiontjon was granted and the gathering took a nebnevnew impetusirmpetus 777 As part of the organization of the new county a new reginregimentrentbent of the state militia was established with lyman chosen as its leaderleaderst we held an election to makemalcemaicemame choicecholchoi mx 0ofF a colonel to ttaice command of the regiment in caidcaldwellCaldvellegil county I1 received a unanimous vote 1which was two hundred for that office if 0 and thirty six votes wherewhereuponurionupion I1 received a comiissioncommission from under thetiletlleN hands of lilburn W boggs 78 uniluntilunell the last of september 9 lnlymanan assisted in their new houehowehome as veilveliwell as preaching every dayclayolayoay then on septemberSeptenther 22 left for illinois on a mission during the month wight was gone he traveled twelve hundred miles and portedreportedrevrew baptizing many new membermembersS 79 in february 1837 lyman moved his family to caldwell

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1 comitycounty and spent the next fcrfbcrct 4 rrronthsc t gettingg theinhelnthem settled and provideprovided1I for their temporal needs

1 sometizre i prilapril david if11 patterpattenpat4pata n preferred1 refer ed cchargesha Z ge 13 against lyman forfyoror teaching arroneerroneerroneouslous doctrines the Whighgligyi council was convened at farpar iteslieshostllesiwestwosti on april 24 1837 to consider these charges seymour brtbribrensonbrunsonarisonnrison george P Dydyleslizes and others testified thats lyman wight sasadsaldsaidd that we the church vecevaceweremrace underundtelundrelunser a telestial law because god does not whip under a cele- tstialealeai lawlautlavt therefore he took us the church out of doors to whip us as a parent tooltoote his chchildrenlldrealdren out of doors to chastisechast i se themtheml and thatthrethae the boorbook of doctrine and covenants was a telestial lavlawlalur and thethatho bockdockbook of comjtiandcozmrayid ments a part of the printedl- d in jajacksonessoineksoin 810S printrpriner county was a celestial lavlatiiatiiasilaw7 the stake presidencypresI1 dency and hichighgh courcouncilicil decided that what lyman had taught was wrong and that he should bbebexbebex required to acknowledge the sainesuluesuinesanesame to the council as vellveilwell as all branches of the church wherew1wajaeaaeaneanereanenere it had been taught accordingly lyman left on a short missmissioniontonlon backbafjbaff to illinois with the intent to acknowledge his mistake1 heilellelie was gortegone about one month before returning A conference of the church convened on novembernove-mber 7 1837 at far west to transact the business of the churchr and sustained joseph smithsmiach as with sidney rigdon as one of his counselors however when frederick g9Gga Iiiiwilliamsliansliamsiiams was presented as the other counselor lyman objected after some debate was sustained in president Willianwilliamsst place later in the meeting lyman was

80dhctDHC titIII111 481 41 noitanatednoninafced asa a member ofol01 thathe high council but was objectedob ctend to by john andersoandersenandersonal ltzaanlyman and brother andersenanderson discussedd the mathermatte-matheer privately afteraffteraffeer iaichhichihichchich bothboehbolbojt h warewerewanewe giveniven a chancecliance to speak to the confereconferenceace and elderelder Vijhtkightwightight vaswasV as unanimously sustained 8183 during the winter monthsmonthe lymaniyman servedserveserved on a committeecomznrittee with john corricorrill11 and david W patten whose assignment vasvaewaswae to explore future sites for settlement in northemnorthern mllsMILsmissourisouri 828 it irasinasvaswas apparently asaz a cambmembermamb r of this cornmitteecorannittee that lynanlyman scovereddiscovereddi scovered his nertnextnewtnexfc horncsitehornesitehoernesitehorachoraehornchorne siteslee on february 1 1838 he moved with his familysamily to r daviessdaviessscountycounty missouri about twentyfivetwenty five milesindies northnornorichich ofo-j far west where the wights settled on the banks of the gragrandand river heilellelie built his hahoraelielleaieiie on the side of a hill that josephrosketoseerosew ph shlshysmithith latelater named tower hill because of the trainstnainsremainsre of whatwlhrat joseph c5ca aimedalmedclaimed to be an old nephite altar that stood there 83 it was called adataadatnadarn ondiondl ahmanalimallman or sometimessome time justju r t TlainitandiahjnanLaInitaniuanjuan in may joseph smithsmiths together ivithedthwithventh other leading men in the church visited lyman and beingbeling very impressed vithwith the area came to the conclusion that it would maemake an excellent site for a timmtown wight records for us what then took plapiaplacesce s

BIDHCDCT iliIII111 5225235225230522 523 82elders82eiderElderseldereiders s boumajoumajournal 1 far eestwestwesh missouriamissourijMissourmissouriij I1 novenovembermabers 1837 27 fr dhe83dhcoDHC IIiivdiv11 350 for an excellente cceacce ileenteileent description of this site see ibid p 39 4-422 we thelthelethereforee F ore conatiencecojnm&ncedd surveying andanu laying 0offff toultowitogitown lotslotselotsj and locating clovecvovegovernmentininzzent lands for many milesmi lesiesleb north oofoeE thiethle plac F this nautifulbeautifulble country wwithi I1 I1i itsikstS 1 IN 4 tz Z a fflatteringiatterlatterirligarlig prospectsprospe dredrewv in floods andaneana emigrants11 I1 I1 A 3 lejESJC I1 had not less than thirty cocoinersmearsmaars andrandcand goers tittixthrouglthelough the day durduringng tho three dunmarssunmarunmrtia r rmonthsJ1 14 n anaancanoann up to 1thethahe lastlase mentioned date october 30 there seresozewereworeweze uprdc of twowo hundred houseshous js builbulibuiltItt in thistimitimis s towtowntownr and alsoaisoaizo avaboutut forty fam1iiefamilies living in theirthairth ir bonsgonswacwagqonsns with the rapid increase in membership in dichmandiahmandiahrnan the need arose for greater organization of the church in thatehat area accordingaccordinglylys on junejime 28288 183818389 a meetingmooting vafivasivass held in a grove near lymans home for the dumosepumosepurpose of J cnnannalnyln organizing a new stake of Zzionolonoionionlonxon josephjosonsephlsm4smasmithyV11 josephToseryll smithes uncle had recently moved to diabindiabnndiahnan andendnd wras selected as the stake presidepresidentintinerne and and lyman wight were choicechoscechosenii as hisMs counseloiscounselorscotmselorscounselois Z

the increase in the huanuanumberhumberrriberbriber of latterlatterdayj1a4V terbater&adayy Ssaintsjjjj inI1 daviess county vaswas soon to create probprobleinsproblednsleins fforfonor them it seemed obvious to the old settlers thatthacthae haytheyI1hey would soonsoc n loeioeloseiose their influence at the polls so an erpeffortfortsort was made to stop the Moxmormonsmor mons ffromsromrom voting at an upcoitupcottupcomingng electione actectiorilori on theU morning of august 6 1838 171173lliamllaamhillian peniston who was running for office f and some of his supporters surrounded the polling booth in gallatin eithvithwith the intent of stopping any monnonmormon from casting his vote86vote 86 lyman reported being

pollin84Rollin JT britton early daysdoys on the and the mormon watwar columbiascolumbianColumbiasbiagblagtabiastmbias ktssourill11 soyriboyri llistoricalhisfcoitciti societsochetsobSOFabetyaebyaetyv 1920trppappp 6776 77 85dhc85dhcp IIIPP 383938 39 861bidibid appp 565756 57 43

Is I1 ffollowed to the polls by threethrichric e rufruffiansfiansianelane vithwithwl th stcrshonesstonessacrnesnee in1n theirthezthemei r handsbands tltheyeeyy svore to kill hinhim if he attempted to votevoto 87 it was not long until a ightffight startedstaretar 4 ed and a numbernumbcx of people were hurt the mobs went for guns and the saints hurried home to hide their families and prepare fforor an attack the following day word reached far west that two or three mormons had been killed in the fight and their bodies left unburied it created great excitement and joseph smithsralsmol th and some of the bretlbrethrenirenaren left for daviess county to assist the saints

1 that night they arrived at lyman elohloeightshightswightsht s s uinhere1 ere a number of the brethren had gathered to avaltaiawaitawaltaltait counsel they spent the night discussing the situation and the next morn- ing went to view the conditions in the area they called on adam bladeblacks justice of the peace and judgeelectjudge elect for daviess county who had previously been united with thethem mob effort to prevent the saints from settling in the county black confessed that hebe had violated his oath as magistrate and to satisfy the saints he wrote and signed the folsolsoifollowinglowlIng agree- ment IsI1 adam black a just-justiceice of the peace in daviess county do hereby sertiffsertify cgjssic to the peopeople1eae coledboled sicsicibici mormin csickcsicgsic that he is bound to duportsuport fLSICsic the constitution of this state and of the and he iiss not attached to any mobmobs nor willwili not attach himself to any such people and so long as they will not molest rnerme I1 will not molest themthern this is the 8th8fchath day of august 18-1838118 88

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that evening some citizcitizenscatiz ns ffromrom millportmillpostMillU Aportllportporeallport alledcalledrailed oion the residents of dialDiahdiahnanimaanxannanazi 4to0 o see if the recent difficultiesdi E fic ie could not be arbitrated bvby representativesrppr from both sidess Adeedes it vaewaswaewao decided to meet the following day at twelve cccclocchloco0clocksloc noon lyman eightwighteightswights joltjohn smith vinsovinsona knight and reynolds cahoon were among those that spottespspotcec7ca 1 e for the saints ehilewhilewallie joseph morinmorinsmorino senator elect john eliiVillwilliamsianislanis representatirerepresentativepresentati ve elect and james B turner clerkcleekcleckcieck of the rcvitravitcircuitci courtcourts were appointed to represent the Millmillportmillpostport citcitizensizellsinells at this meeting both parties entertenteredid into a colenancocovenancovenantvenan 1 of peacepeacespeacey to preserve each othaotheraother1rss ricriorightsthes and standseand in each others defense ththatat if men did wrongurong neither party would uphold them or endeavor to screescreenscreemM themtheen from justice but deliver up all offenders to be dealt athwthvithwith according to law and justiceustice the assembly disdispersedispersedperstperse1d 0onri these friendly terms u9ua9 while these men were deciding on a peaceful neansmeansmoans of07 settling differencedifferencesss others were ststirringirrcrr lngang up roubletrouble1 judge blackblacic issued a statement that he had been f-forcedorced bybyr the mormons to sign his previous affidavit 90 andaind will-williami an peniston who had been defeated in his attempt for the state senatesenates issued an affidavit accusing joseph sinSirsmithtith and lyman wight of being leaders of a mobniobhiob set to do violence on daviedaviesss countycouney residents 91

89dhciDC p 600goegoo60 90missulreub3ran90missollri ublicanpublican daliydaily xv september 3sas3 183818 38v 2 as quoted in leland homer gentry A history of the latter 1 183911 yuh davday saints in northern missouritisfislissouri from 1836 to 1839 unruhununpu-1 tuhtub blished doctoral dissertationdissertations brigham young universityuniversity9 9 1965 PPC 2542640 91dhcpDHC liloliililIII111 61giegle619 45 on august A111 a conmifctee fromframa rayeaypay countyco cityyity aarrivcarrived3 in far west to inquire into the charges of diackblack and Penispenistontons they met with the saints there and therthen pproceededoceroceedegded toI10o &daviess county the first place atalatvlatwiatwhichat whichachdch heythey stopped after arriv-

11 ing was lymansclymanslymoxnls home where jocephjoeephjoiseph smith and otherothear members 0of4 the church had gathered they presented their purpose for coming and expressed a desire to settle the difficulties that existed bebetweenlaweelcweelen the moriMorrmormonsrions and the missouriansMissourians when they urgedu ged the saints to comply with civil laiflairlaw it was reported that lyman stated that he felt no allegallegiance4 ance to the law for it1 t hadhaa not protectedpro actedected him in his rights in the last seven years he also supposedly said that he would ratherather die than submit to the teeffortsff aitoitolt ts of his enemies 92 following this meeting joseph returned to farFparr vilestwestyest where he learned that a warrant had bebeenen issued for the arrest of himself and lyman wight 93

when the sheriffsha1 nriff tried to serve this writ on iymanlyman it is reported that he met with opposition the westelhegwesteznegweg n star recorded that the sheriff found lymants home surroundedtl by a force of men eighty to one hundredbundred strong they austedauotedquoted wight as saying to the constable that he would not be taken alive because the laws had never protected him that he owed them no obedience and that the whole state of missomissouriirilritrl could

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46 944 notnobnoenoz takeeakeiareake him withwilftwildt h ththathe2 report that tigirthightwightwigirt hadhiarhag1 resisresiereslerests beded arrest large numbers of missouri residents blbegangan collfcolefcollecting2 ctilng supposedly to aaidaldd the sherifsherissherlssheriff117 in hiehisMs efforts to bring himbim into custody q5qaQ with such a large gathering of men the mormonsN were not convinced that thekhetheircheltcheitcheirit purpose was merely to take lyman wight and therefore they made plans to defend themselves john corrill gives this account of the mormon feelings and points out that lyman claimed the sheriff indimdtriad never attempted to taketametamme him this excited and alarmed the Morcormonsmormonsmons they began to think there waskasvasmas some other obobjectectact in view besides taking wight 0 for smithsmath1 had previouslyprevpravA ous Y told the sheldfsheldasherifff thatthet he never resisted but vaswas perfectly willing to surrender and said he iwouldlouid persuade wight to do so Fforfoeor thishl S purpurposeposetposey he sent for wicht to come to far west and see wightwelghhighwflght sc ra r5 him which he did and wightjWightJ agreed to subsubmitats saying1.1 ing that the sheriff had nexernevernewer attempted to taletatetaketabetalgtarg him thethetthelt citizens continued to gather and neusnews caircamelleriehie to smithstrath that there would be lourfour thousand amedanaed men together in a ffewew days this alarmed smith and he sent a messengermessengee to naneralgeneralgt atchison to come to far lestiestilesteesttiesaresawestviesaIwesa andend see himhinlhint and advise him what to do he did so and alalsoaisoso went to daviess and advised smith and hightwightwl qhtt and such othersoth rs as 963 were accused to surrender which they did 0 at the request of joseph lyman went to farpar wet where he and the prophet met with general atchison on september 4 the gengeneraleral counseled them to submit to a trial

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95dhcDHC t III111 69 96 john corrill aj3riefA historypfiharhaILL of the church pfof C anns jesus christ of latterdaydaydai sanettsannttsatntgcommonlyA contcorccortirrion1y calladcallodccalled moritismoriticMorcormonsmormonsmonsiticnns Ts latteriatterlatterd y tstt amotlauistlouistumot for the autiautholorloc tat8 397 I1 p 340 47 sosooseo ththeyy rcitainedretained5.5staineditained the sexmkservicesj ces ofot atclanclafcchisontislison and his lavlaw partner general alexander doniphan to defdefendend themthemethemo 97 the trial vaswasvyas sesetseicsevcIC for tuesday september 6 at brother LittlefilittlefieldlittlefieldiseidiseldIs homehoniehomahomie near the southern county line of daviess county this place was chosen because the prophet 98R felt ththeyey would bebv sasafereaserI1 S er there on the appointed day the plaintiff william P Perdpenistonpern stonshonskon failed to make an appearance and the trial was postponed until ten oclock the rolfolroifollowingloving day the trial was moved further southsoulath6th to the homehomo of a mob membermembersmembery john raglin As a precaution against the nicbsmcbsnibbs coming across the county line and sruptinadisruptingdi the trial lyman had a company of men ready to protect themthemitheml 99 the trial commencedcomrnenced with william P peniston acting as prosectprosprosecutoreci1 tor and adam blacblackciccyc as hisMs only witness black swore to many things which according to joseph smithsmithssmithy rmnevervt existed M and in inelneffinesine I1 think he swore by the job andcand that he was employed to do so by peniston 101110000 the witnesses for the defense werewenee dimick B hunt- ington gideon carter adam lightner and george VI robinson the judge bound lyman and joseph over to the court on a five hundred dollar bond each although he later stated in the presence of george W robinsonrobinsons that there was nothing proven worthy of bonds 101 A few days later the missouri argearguss a st louis newspaper carried a ietterletterlefterletherieuterleuter which said

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Ssmithcietiti and wrwrightahtght cgi0sic completely sbarastarnshanastampedped the certifcertcazacayacertificateL ifI1 c J te affidavyaffidavaffidavitt of Blblaclelackblaceblackaclack cumstaocumstocfecumstay essios1sa C and others with falsehood 1110210lo therajrpj prophet joseghjoseph suggests that this action was taken by judge king in order to pacify as much as possible the feelings of the robbersmobbersmobbers 103 the mob forces ereverewere now more determined than ever to drive the latterlatterdayday saints ffromrort daviessdaviessese colcountycotumbyumty they sent letters throughout the state recraeslrequestinging aid and soon a force of between two and threethroe hundred men had collectedmliec ced six niileslieslleemilesniiles outside dialroanDialdiahmamDiahmanroanmammoan colonel wight being in charge of the monnonmormon forces organized his nienrienmen in dicdhznandiahznnan and in addition sent a letter to general atchisoatchisonn for aid upon remreceiptelatelpt of the ColonclOscolonels ietterletter atchison dispatched general donieldonipldoniphanan to daviess county with abouabout11cac tithreexeemee hundred men under his cormcormtandcommandotand 1041 upon arrival in the county dondoniphaniphanephan stationed his men betbetweenireenvreen the opposing forces and then ventwentwant to the camp of the non cormons1alormonsmormons who were headed by a dr austin of cajcaroll03103103.1 countyCotinty he ordered them to disperdispersedispersessetses but they claimed their obobjectiveactiveective for arming and collecting was merely for self defense and so they refused to leave

the general then visivlsivisited1 ed the mormon camp he reported the following resullrebullresultss to general atcldsonatchisoniatchisonnAtchisoni

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1.1 tchtc7 n 10 A I1 then procecdPproceproceedoce cdd with youlyouryoue aid p J KM hughughesA es and my aidaldaddaigalg benjamin holliday teto the morionmonton enciarripmeencampmentirairtairt rcoattdedcommanded by colonecolonel1.1 lyman highwighmights we heldheidhciidild a conference with mm and ho proiprofessedE esstessead2d entire willingnesswi tid111 rignessbigness to disband and surrender up to rcacercee every one of the mormons accufaccuseded of crimecringe and Is required in re LU r11 4 L ed by return 0thatlat the hostile forces collecoilecollected 1 the other citizens of the couintycovjubycoucovcocincouinjabyjubyty should aloaioalso disbanddisbandsdisband1loo105 doniphan declared his determinationdetermdedegermterm nation to hold hish position between the tvotwotx 0o mcampsmpsamps and to prevent a collisioncollisicrn pending the arrival of general atchison horevhowevhoweverrL while he was still in the mormon camp major hughes informed himmm that his troops vereverewerewere committingmutinycommitting mutiny and were determined to come against the saints in adam ondiahmanondlondi ahman lyman reports what then transpired having a colocoiocolonelsnePsneos commissionconn lssionassion under doniphan I1 was conunandedcon4manded to call out my troops forthwith1 orthvithwith and to use doniphantdoniphans cwiowi0 vjrn langlanguageaageuagek fkI1ill11 every G d snobocrattrobocrat you can find in thej countylilliior make them prisoners and if they come tiponupon you give them hell f he then returrireturnedreturneeEnd to his troop and gave them an address stating the inter- view hshe had with me and he also said to the mob thatkhatkhet if they were so disposed they cauldcould go on vithwith their measures that he consconsideredderod that colonel eigelgkightwightwig t vithwitht i the militia under his command all suffsufficienticientscient to ciucaqueliquellqueilI every G d mobocratratobolobosobo crat in the county and if they gw pw dididdiodlod not feel disposed to do so to go home otor G ddw owa s them he would killki 11 every one of them the mob then dis- persed 106 when general atchison arrived full inquiry was made into the state of affairs with the mormons delivering up for trial those accused of crime those arrested werewecewe e lymanLYMI n

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they were arrested bbybcrburbrycr a constable who cocolldcoald1 di netnch rfrwidarwidzidokdzkd his writ and taken before three magistrates george A smiths account of thttheaht proceedings indicateindicatedd that adamadareL blackbicacibicack was the only witness against them and his testitestimoitestimonymoimoyayiy was obviously false 108 the prisonersprisoners were detainedd for two days and subjected to numerous insults many times their lives were threatened by irienirlenzrienmen wielding knivesives and guns after being dismissed lyman demanded thatthal writs be issued against thirty of the mob but his request was refused general atchison reported to the governor thethiethle outcome of the inquiry and stated that the moatmomtmormonsons acted on the defensive included in this letterietter we find an observation

9 concerning lyman elcwighttwightswicfhefht i the mormons of daviess county are headed by lymn wight a bold bravebraves skillful and I1 may addadds a speratedesperatedn man then appeared to be acting on thrtheahr defen- sive and I1 just further addsadd gave udup the offendersofffende3M withwi 4 h a good deal of promptness lo1009oao9

having been prevented from attacking the sain-saints41 s irin daviess county the mobs nenextct turned theirtheathe3 r efforts against the members of the church in de witt carroll countcountyY thrtheyahrri were soon successful in driving them out of the county and back to far west at one point lyman led a group of men from farpar west to aid the saints in dewitt but the effort was in vain 110 with theirth931 r success in carroll county the mobs turned their attention once again to daviess coixatycountyCoixatynty they verevecewerewece also

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1 11 cacy 4 militarym ll L cary aidalda d in response to thist1ratara s requestL the general orderedordeoraerec brigadier general parks to proceed to diahmandichmandiahnaivDi ahman being fearful hatthatil his men would mutiny and join thethin mobs parkspariesparlespartespares lefleftt theirthemthein and ventvantwentvenavana ahead to converse with colonel wight alone uhliewhile parks was at the wight residence word was received that the mobs were burning homes and driving the saints before them this was conconfirmed17irmed by the arrival of mrs and her two small children the mob had burned her home to the ground and fforced her to flee in thethes snow a distance of three miles carrying her two small children most of the way it was also necessary that she widetradewude the grand river which was waist deetdeerdeep this incidentjincietsxit made parks so indignant that he ordered wight to gather what forces he could and take whatever course he deemed necessary to disperse the mobs 112 colonel wight followed this order andnd called out hz men approximately one indredhundred twenty he placed sixtyA of these under the cocommandgandwand of david W patten and he took cocommandmand of the remainder after they were organized general parksparrs addressed them as follows Gentgentlemenlement I1 deplore your situation I1 regret that transactions of this nature should have trans- pired in our once happy state your condition is

4 111diic 111 161 ld p 443 hidhca III tibidbibid 52 is certainly not an enviable caeonecaay surromdfsurroundedd by mobs oolionli one side andanamriamrla popular abinionapinionopinion and preprejudice3udaudj ce agagainst4lnst yoiyou on the other gladly iai4rouldwouldgouid I1 fly to your relief vdwithth my 1 .1 t 4. 1 D moe troops batbutbae I1 fear it vouwould4 boind worse foforfoc you moskmockmor of thei-themkhemn have relationsrelatiolifs living in this coimcountryi ry and wiwi31313.1llyi notno fight against them I1 can only say to Yyouau gen lie- men follow the command of colonelcoloichloi aelaei wight whom I1 havo- ccommanded0ammmmmanaedanaed to disperse all mobs found in daviess county or to make themtherntherm prisoners and bring themkhemkhent before the civil authorities fortInforthwithTith I1 wish to be distinctly understood that colonel wight is vested with power and authority ffromrom rrinmearin to didispersesnognpqnprsm from yoururntir midst all whovrho may be found on the side of mobocracy in the county of daviess I1 deeply regret gazgczgentlemenn lerenlenen knowing as I1 do the vigilance and perseveranceperse verance of colonel wight in tlthee cause of freedainfreedom and the rights olof01 man that I1 could not even be a soldier under his ccmmandcommand in quelling the hellish outrages I1 have witnessed I1 shall novnow gentlemen e 9 leave sole chargchangcharge with coiColcoloneloncelonkel wight whom I1 deendeem sufficiently qualifiequalifiedqualifiedqua lifie c to berfperfperformorm according to law in all military operations necenecessaryssarasary 3133.1311113 lyman wight also addressed the troops and a report4 of its effecteffectact on those who heard is gi-givenvren by john D lee who was present it also gives us an idelogidea of lymanshymanslymanos appearance and manner

1 whewhenn the forces were assembledtassembledambled colcoi white feicesic rnadeanadede a war speech As hehex spoke he stood by hishieMs fine browbro yrd 1 ho-horsehoeserse there was a bear skin on his saddsaddlesaddiele 111he1eae h-hadrid aC1 red handkerchiehandkerchieff around hishieMs headheads regular indian fashion with the notknotitnotit in front bare headed in his shirtshinhsl sleeves with collar openingopening shoving his naked breast he held a large cutlass iinn his right hand his manner of address struck terror to hishi a enrennenemiesamieswmies while it charged hish s brethren with enthusiastic zeal and forced them to believe they werewero invincible and bullet proof we were about three hundred andaridarld seventyfiveseventy five strong I1 stood near col white asiccsicetsbicetceic whiamiewmiele he was speaking and I1 judgeueibeigeiqe of its effect upon others by the way it affected ntmee 114

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pa 11 david pattenc1ca evaewaema departeddad2palgalgai u-d then for gallatin and lymaniymanlymanlymam took the rionnionwonmon under his corranconrancommandcand and went to millarmillprmillporblrtart upon arriving howeverI1 o vrexrr ththeyay&y found the place evacuated and burned the nonnonmormonsmormons had relreiremovednoved theirthru3 i t propelpropertyty ffromrom theirth ar homeshomets and burned their belongings theytihey then spread the report that the imonnonsMorcormonsmormonsIMonnonsmons were burning and destroying all before them ttl15it 11511.5 thenne non11nonnonmormonformonmormonmoemon forces now moved against caldwell COLUcomityity afafterterter leableamlearninging of the troubles in that county lyman and the montionmormon troops under his coincorncommandmand procrproprocaproceededcr ded to far nestwest arriving on octoberOctoloctolnoeNoenr 29 there were many important events that led to what now transpired at far west governor boggs had issued hiships

4 famous exterminating order which called for the saintssaintesaieaieal i A t 75 tolo10 be exterminated or driven out of the state 116 the result was an effort to fulfill these orders aadandaglid all nonnonmormonmormon forces collected outside far west under cointbointcommandfiandtiand of general samuel lucas the saints within the city prepared for wartvarwarswar but also continued to vorkworkwock for a peaceful settlement on october 31 a committee of mormons headed by colonel hinklehinkie met with the opposing forces and secretly made the following arrange- mentments

a first to give up their the Churchchlarchtschurchsjsj leaders to bele tried and punished secondseconds to make an propriappropriationappropriapappropre ationaaion of the property of all whohadwho had taken up arms for the

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papaymentyatenymtent of theitheltheirr debtsdeb C s andann d iindemnifyndeiiinain ify forf-yoryocar tthebe darldanldantdamagege done by them thirthirda thbtjhbnulnakralL the remainderroroiroli tiaindinderindar ofor the saints 1 va sholshouldwidmid leave the and be protecte-d v1whilesaisal1111 11 doing so state protected le doino 16 IC L 44. V 1 z by the militia1 but they verewere3 to bele penipentpermitted41 ttedeted to remainregainnnalriNna lri under protection until further orders dreuterere received fronfromlffiff ronrom the ccmmandercommander in chief to give up azanroamrocildildik i of fourth thelltheiltheirir111 13 77 every description whichwih ch xvouldvoulawouldoulaouia be receipted for colonel hinkle then returned to far west and informed joseph smith that the militia desired to meet with him and other leaders in compliance with this request joseph smith lyman wight sidney rigdon parley P prattpratts and george W robinson went imttediatelyimmediately to the camp of the tnilitimilitiaa but to their surisurprisetriseirise instead of being treated with respect they were made priscprisonersners when they approached Gexgeageneralneral lucaslucastlucass lyman shook his hand and said we understood general you wish to coiiftconferx wvithwith1 th us a few moments will not tomorrow morning do aja j well it was at this moment that george M hinkle seidsaid here general are the prisoners I1 agreed to deliver to you then pulling his sifordssword generalGenerailralirall lucas saidsaldsaidy you are my prisoners and there is no tine for talking at thekhethez present you will march into camp nilm1188 the prisoners were now taken into camocamp amidst the hideous yells of the militia where they spent the nightnigatyt upon the ground before mornincmorninemorningI1 it rained but they were given nothing for47.7 0r covecoverr the next day iiyrum11yrum smith and were lakentakentallaataadylendywon from their familiesfcauni17 es and brought into camp as prisonrprisonsprisonersrs

1171 ibidabid1171bidbidxbid 0 p 181888 118ibidvidibid p 445 55 that night lyman was visvisitedited by generalgenezaz a I1 wilsontelleltei i I1 c or subalternatesub alternate ofoe general lucas who made thejuhe following Ppropositionr0paS iti oriorlOTI I1 colotelcolonelcolo teltei wight we have nothing against you only thatthp& you are associated with josjosepheph smith he iiss our enemy and a donneddamneddmnned rascal and would take any plan he could to kill you aro us drearea-drore a dadamnedlitnedlinned fine felloefellovj and if you i11viiiwillvililii come out and swear againstagainst himhillis we will sparsparesparee your life and give you any office you want and you do its if ilg1193 dot ititt you w3wawill11 be shot tomorrow at 8 oclockoiloll011 clock ilg11931919 during zions camp lylymanrilan had promised nevernevetanevera to i forsake joseph smith and he now proved his intent to keep that oromprompromisese he replied to wilson general wilson you are entirely mistaken in your man both in recardregard to ntysellmyselfniyntysellselsseis F and joseph smith joseph smith is not an enemy but is as good a friend as you haarhavrhave got had iitL not been fforor him you would have been in hell long ago fforfoxor I1 should havehaveahaven sent you there bvby cutting your throatthro t and you may thank him forfor your lifee now you me 1 lif and if will give the boys I brought fromf Dlahmandiahmandichman0 yesterday I1 will whip your whole armyarmyo 120

1 wilson told wight thathatthag4 he was a strange wanman and if he would not accept his proposal he would be shot to which lyman replied shoot andcand be dardamneddannned 11 about this time general doniphan came to lyman and the other prisoners and informed themtherothern that the decision had been reached to have them shot the following morning lyman

1 quotes doniphan as saying colonel theehe4 he decision is a dadamnedrmedamed hard onetonesone and I1 have washed my hands against such cool and delibedellbedeliberaterate 12lttl1121021 doniphan also told wight that he

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qioilolloli november 2 1838 at about thethcchejhc hour vightwightW 1 glit and hiskiekle felloreilofelloefellovj prisoners were to have been shot they were placed in a wagon andcand taken to tithechebhelekiekjck bublipublipublicc square at far west with the exception of Lqlutianlqtianlymaniymantian all of the prisoners were then allowed to see their families 1241 following this hearthaarkhaack rending scene the men were forced to start for independence jacksonjartjarclxsonaxson county missouri under the charge of generals lucas and wilson and three hundred soldiers this firstfinstr lrstarst daysdayssdayos inarch tooktoom them selventecseventeenn ilesliesmilesreilesre to the crooked riverrivarr-raveriveraver wherewheye they carcancamped1 p d for the nigligiglinightt the nertnext morningrooming novnovembernovee10br 3 the march continued to the missouri river which heythey crossed at Nilliwilliamscains ferryperry in jactsonjacksonjacdson county it was during this days march that joseph smith made the follofollowinggingwing statement to his fellow prisoners

be of good cheer brethrenbroJbrejChren I1 came to merae last night that our livesilves11vesveS should be given us andratidralcalrat id that whatever we may suffer durindurinadurino this captivity not one of our lives should be taken 7251 the entire march to jackson county had been made in

3 24lymansijyanb family was most likely in DJdiahmandichmanahman at this tireeiretimeeimehimebime and therefore could not be present to bid farewell to him for a more detailed account see DHC litIII111 1931941931094193 1941094 rate125pratt125 rattPrattprate autobio2rautobiogrgehy P 210

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4 graatgreat haste thethel apparentapparracapparra Y iz necessity o-ofp ththiss rapid raovemcnt vaswasaravra s a contention between generals lucas and dark aszis to4 0 17110

m would have possession of0 L thetr e prisonersmi joserhjosephjocephjo erheph smith wrote clark wanted the privilege of putpuh ling us to death himselfh nisellniself and lucas and hshish s troops waawerewarewamwace desirous of exhibiting us iinn the streets of Independenindependenctindependenceindependencyct N 126 general wilson was quoted by parley P pratt

as sayingsayingss it was repeatedly insinuated by the other officers and troops that we should hang you prisprisonersoriersbriers on the firstfi-girstgiretgiestrst tree we came to on the way to independence batbut italit1l111 bebatbakbek d d if anaboanybodyanybody shall hurt you wa just intendillliito ddexhibit you in independence let the people lookdooh1ooh at you and seeeeesep what a d- d set of fine fellows you are and more particularlyddto keep you from that old bigot of a general clark and his troops from down country who are so stuffed with lies and prejudice that they would shootchootcahoot you down in a moment 127 while in jackson county the prisoners were 4treatedrcatecat

kindly and ggiven1 ren much freedom perhaps the only unpleasantunplcasantt aspect of the stay was their exhibitionexlabitdbitionlon as wild animals forfo the publics entertainment being before the publicpublics however

was used to0 o good advantage as they took the opportunity to preach the gospel since leavleavinging far west general lucas had refused all orders fromfroin general clark to taretaketa ce the prisoners to richliorichhiorichmondrid but on november 7 colonel price arrived in independence with orders not only from general clark but also from the governor to escort the prisoners to richmond for trial

126dhciiDH lilitiIII111 200 127prrattratt autobilaiitomogagh2aa22z p 209 59 it vasvaswas with some difficulty that price found ineninanmenman to accompany him in taking the prisoners to richmond but on november aj8j8 having fofoundmd three they left for thatthalthettheltheat place the guards were armed with swords and pistols hidentlyevidentlyevhidentryhidently for the protection or the11 he prisoners more than to prevent their escape As they traveled the guards started drinking and soon were three sheets in the wind t wight and his fellow prisoners were allowed to ride as much as sixty aror eighty rods in front or behind the guardsgua rissrids at night while the guards slept they gave their guns to the prisoners as protection against attacks by ostilehostileIn neighbors 128 the journey to richmond took two days and was

completed without incident3Mcident but not until colonel price fentventwent1 ahead and returned with about seventyfiveseventy five troops to protprotectCice the prisoners from the constant threats of armed men who had followed them 19129 upon arrival in richmondrichmonds the prisoners were placed in an old log house and heavily guarded what little food was provided had to be eaten with their hands about seven clockoclockot general darkclarkgark visited them but refused to answer their questions about why they were being held 130

128parley128parley P pratt late Persepersecutpersecutepersecutionscutiolisaolis of the church of jesus christahnchn st of latterdlatterater dgydadgy S afntsauntss Mmeximaxiexi co NYN Y s LJ wpW harrisonharrlsonhartjtsont by the authorlatter1840 p 95 129phc3 29dhcl iliIIIIIIs111llly 206 britton130brittbrittenon p 85 60 A short time afterarterarherafterher herkdarkclarrclarkmerw lelettiettleftlestiestlt colonel price tolinrolinjohn FWAfulkersonkerson and ten armedaarmeori ed guardsgua L ds entered the roroommiaxia hhitehhi3eiehllehl le thethanthen guards stood nithwithmith cocked guns the windows weretutereturere nailedna lied shut and the prisoners were chained together by fulkersonfulkersonlkakersonerson colonel price then made a search for weapons and finding pocket knives took them from the captives 131 the following mormoxmorningningpningpo h1oveltnovemberaber loj10 genngeneralal clark again visited the prisoners and lyman reportedreportedtreportedt

4 I 0 go 0 0 and wlvithwithh a look of awe and disdain saidsaldsaidt gentlegentienin ie benrmenrmen you are chalchaichargedaged with having corinitittedcommitted murder burglary larceny andanacandcana stealing and various other crimes too numerous to mantionmention and in great haste left the roomrooan 132 while awaiting trial the prisoners velwelvereweree under ththe charge of colonel price who allowed all mcumnernumnernner of abuse to be heaped upon themtherathern thethen rooms in which the prisoners wewereveyeweyee kept were miserable and cold Zandzand in consequence of the continued exposure sidney rigdon became seriously ill parley P pratt reported that the guardsguaras were iimrrcomposedtdosed ofoe the most noisy foulfoulmouthedmouthed vulgar and 133 disgraceful indecent rabble that everevear defiled the eartiaartiearthL iti133 one eningerevening as the prisoners lay chained togetogetherthtaht r the guards began to boast of the murder and rape they had cxhtimittedcomoriitted against the saints lyman now witnessedwitnessemd the prophet in terrible majesty as described by parley P pratts

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I1 had listened tilitillti-tidjI1 1 I1 became so disgusted shocked horrhorrified1 fi ed and so filledfi I1 led wiwithwlchwichth the spspiritrit of inindignantdi gnagncantcanhX usticejustice that I1 could scarcely refrralrefrainreferrallartaari from rising upon my feet and rebuked the guards but had said nothing to joseph or anyone else although I1 lay next to him aiandanaridwid a knew he was awake on aCt sudden hehea arose to his eetfeetfbeet and spoke in a voice of thunder or as the roaring lion uttering as nealy cgltsosic as I1 cancam recollect the follow- ing words silencetSi lence yyee fiends of the inferinfernallialrial pit in the name of jesus christ I1 rebuke you and command you to be still I1 will not live another minute and hear such language cease such talk or you or I1 ddiedleae this instant he ceased to speak he stood erect in terribleterribierible majesty chained and without a weapon calm unruffleunruffledds and dignified as an he looked upon the quailinquadlinquailingquailin guards whose weapons were loveredlowered or dropped to the ground whose knessknees smote together and who shshrinkingrinkinhinkinpinkin into a car-corneroerner or crouching at his feet begged his pardon and remained quiet until a change of auardcguardsguarde 334134 general darkclarkclerkgark has been desirous of holding court martial proceedings against the prisoners and had in fact held such proceedings beforebe klorek7ore1 the mormon leaders had arrived at richmond the general had once again sentenced them to be shot but fearing that this might not be in accordance with the lawlavolawo darkclarkgark had written to fortport leavenvorthleavenworth for instructions he was informed that to shoot the prisoners would be coldbloodedcold blooded murder 135c on sunday november 11 darkdankclarkclankgank informed the priprisonerssollers that he had decided to turn them over to the civil author- ities forfo 1 examination and accordingly later that day judge kingkings circuit judge cfof the fifth judicial circuit held a brief preliminary hearing where the prisonersfrisonersnere welewelvereverwerewer e informed of thethechargescharges against them they immediately retained the

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the socalledso called trial lasted until nouenovenovemberzitbziab z1 r 28 butb

morgn E with few exceptiexceptionsexcepts1I ons only nonnonmormonsmoimolmormonsmormonenonsnone or apostate mormonsmormonecn were allowed to testify every time a list olof01 witnesswitnessesez was submitted by the prisoners the witnesses were immediately imprisoned or driven from the country the few who did testify were severely threatened if they said anything favoratfavorabfavorablele lylymasmans report ofoti011 the situation was as followfollowsfollowrstrstpst we were kept in chains ithtith nothing but ex parpac evidencevidencec and that given either by the vilest apostates gj0155 or by the mob who had committed murder in3 n the slatestatestabestake ofolff missouri notwithstanding E x tauterauteti cr73iddercedencedenze7 ce all this tarteiltiil 0 judge kinakincking ddidtud infinformonriomri our lawyer tenaltidaysdayedays previopraviopreviousas to the termination of the trialtriaitr a 1 whom he should comulcommitit and whom he should notnohnoti 0 andanaanoang I1 heard judge king say on hishieh S f bench ini n the presence of hundreds ofol01i witnessesvaltwaltwiLtnesses that there was no law for the Morcormonsmormonsmons 1 and they need not expectexpec1 any said he if the Govergovernorsnorts extermination order had been directed to nilemenele I1 would have seen it fulfilled to the very letter ere this tinetimecimenime1 9 I1 after a tedious trial of fifteen daysdayedayssdayes vithwithwl Lli no otlerotherotijier witnesses but ex vartenartvartpartenartee onesoness the witnesses for thrtheahr1 priprisonersbonerssoners were eieitherettherthelthex F kikickedckedaked out of dooirdobirdoorss or pupucU ontitl11.11 trial themselvestheritse ives 136 althoughalthough numerous other brethren had been brouilbrouglbroughtit to richmond of those being tried at thisuhls time all butbuh lyman wight caleb baldwin hyrum smith alexander mcrae sidney rigdon joseph smith parley P pratt morris phelps lylyantilanaftaniftan gibbs daradarwdarvindarwinI1n chase and norman shearer were& released or& admitted to pay bail pratt phelps gibbs chase and shearer were put in jail at richmond whilewhieleeieble the tiainderreiretremaindertia inder

136dhc A DHC 211.1 0 JDITC I1 III111 448 see also lititiivlIITJ 2i00211.0211211 6361 3 were to be imprisoned ataukahk libertyLibattybettybakty missouri all verewere toco face trial on the same chargeschcarges of treason and murder 137

the hechearingtarincmarincI1 concludedconclludedeluded on november 28 1838 and the next day the prisoners who were scheduled fforor coconfinementn 117ineitientsitient in liberty were removed to clay county where they arrived november 30 according to hyrum smiths testimony they were transported in a large wagon afteraftertec having beenheenbeen chained and handcuffed 138

1 the jail at liberty was constructed with the outeroulk er walls of stone and the inner of oakhewnoak havnhawnhewn logs there was space between the inner and outer walls that was filled with loose rock making the walls a total of about four feet thick the structure wasunasupas twentytwotwenty two feet square and fourteen feet in height it vaswaswa s divided into two compartments one above the other the upper story was fustjust over seven feet in height and provided housing for the jailer and his family where the dungeon below was under six feet in height it was approximately fourteen feet square with twtvotwo small windowswindotwrs located at the north and south ends the door which was constructed ofojiL heavy wood was located on the east end of the building and opened to stairs that led to the upstairs apartment 139 the winter stay at liberty was unpleasant for lyman and his companions hyrum smithsmitlfss testimony provides insight into what the rilenmen endureendurenduredsenduredoedsdo

13 137ihc137dhci lilitiIII111 212 13bibidBIbidbid q p 420 13entry13 entrygentry p 567 646 4 our place of lodghodglodginging4 wasyas the square side of a hewedheaved white oak log and ourou-r food vaswas anything but goodgood Cand 4 decentdeapdecp1 I poison was administeredadl d to us three or ffourour c times the effect it had upon our systemi was that it vomited us almost to deathdeathsdeather and thenthe n we would lie orteorio two or three days in a torpid stupid state riotnot even caring or wishing for lifeilfeileeliffe we were also sub4ectedsubjected to thetheathen necessity of eating human flesh for the space of five days or go without food except for a little coffee or a little cornbread the latter I1 chose in preference to the former hevnevweswe none of us partook of the flesh except lyman wight we also heard the guard which was placed over us makingmaming sport of us saying0 they fed us on mormon beefbeerbeefebeebe I1 140 lymans accolaccodaccountit of the imariimpriimprisonmentsommentsummentSOMMent substantiatessubstantihantihantl isi tes hyrumshymuttsHymutts testimony and confirms the fact that he did partakeparcakepar eakecake ofooeE the supposed human fleshtflechtfleshs the mercies of the jailer were intolerable feeding us with a scanty allowance of the dregs of coffee and tea frontfromfroni his own tabitabletabiee and fetching the provisions in a basketbaske4basked without being cleaned on which the chickens had t roosted the night before five days he fed ththe prisonerpirisoeisoelsoriersbiersZ on hunhiiinanhumtan flesh and from extremeexext1 rente hunger I1 was corroollodcrnpolledcorroo llod to eat it 141 about the only events attendedthattendedthatth tended to lessen ehreheeilekile3 sufsuhfEeringsuffering of the prisoners were ththe frequentinfrequentins visits of members of their families and letters they received from ffriendsri ends lamanislymanslymanis wife visited himhinlhint on two occasions Uuletheuieie firhfiahfllrst being in december she brought their four sons with her the youngest having been born since lyman entered jalljailjalijalljadi while they were there lyman gave i-laislis new son a fathers blessing 14214 lymaslymans wife visited himhlinhirn again in januaryjrandaryanuary and

jl4cdhc 141 140r p II1111111.1 420 bidibid p9pap 44844800480 segry142Histoststgrygregrybofmosmofof the beorreorganizedreorganisedreor nizednihed churichurchii II11 309 65 thisthic titimetinteate bl-broughtought thefhe4theirhe r totywo o daughtdaughtersn rs to visitvisvie 4 with their father 143 members of the reorganized church of jesusjecus christ of latter day saints claim that it waswl s duringdueingduming a visit from the prophetsProphetts samllsamilfamilysamilyy that joseph smith ordained his son joseph smith III111IIIP f to beb A his sufsursuccessorcessor to substantiate their beliefbellefbeliefs mernmennmembersbers of this faith rely on the testimonytestimonyof of lyman wight that the occurred in 1848 the follofollowingvying statement appeared in a Stranstrangitestrengitegite publication

0 lyman wight seems to cherish then idea that is iglooignooignorantly1va111auy held out by some others that joseph the prophetsprophettsprophetteProphetts son will yet coneupcomeconegpup and take his fatfathersherts originalit 9 place in the church as the prophet of the church 144 under the date of december 898 1850 the journaliinjijj0 history quotes from lymants writings bore testimony that joseph smatsmathh appointed those of his own posterity to be his successor t1451 145 historians of the jeorgareorgareorganisedreorganizednizend church also refer to a letter written to the northern islander under thetha date of july lotloy18 18551855t now mr editor if you had been present when joseph cacamcamem oouttxtaxt of Ltailjailjalljaliralipall liberty jail missouri to lay hands on the head of a youth and heard hhimim cry aloud youou are my successor when I1 depart tf and heard the blessing poured on his head I1 say had you heard all this and seen the tetearsarsans streaming from his eyes you would not

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have beenbaen led bbyy blind fenabicisn or a zealzcaalzwaal withoutthotthoi 1 t knowledgknowledgee 16346 it should bes notedno 1zaz ed that lyman did not seysayazy that joseph ordained his son but that he blebieblessedsed him the testimony of joseph snathsmith iliIII111 agrees with this interinterpretinterprelinterpreta-prelprea a tionseions it makes me decidedly ttiredftiredattired to have inenmen who think themselves to be possessed of ordinordinarycary grodgood ssensecscnsensc to ask me I1 did your fatherfather ordain you to be hishiehas successor it where they know he was living andend occupying the position himself hoihozhouhov could a successor bsbe ordained to the officeofflckicv until it was vacant my father did not ordain himself to thetho presidipresidencypreside ncy did he hefinz could not ordain a man to lupercesupercepercedosupercedosu & t himself 147 it does not seera likely that leinanlyinanly7zian would lie aboutallalutoutyoutlout

a the matter but heliekiekle may have mislmders1misunderstoodtcodood thrahrtho blebieblessingssixig thatth-it joseph conferred upon his son the prayer may have been P promise that young joseph would one day lead the churechurchD if he were sorvonworworthythvtav or some other type of blessing some have apparently thought that this blessbiessbleesblessing4 kig wsvaswas given while the prisoners were in liberty tailljailjalljalibailljalil but lyrianlynian sayss it happened followsfollow4followingJongng their release there is also the testintestimtestimonytestinzonylonykonyzony 0ofL sidney Rigrigdonsdones son who claims the blessing was not given at the jailjaliailallali when young joseph visitvisitedcd dshislas1yas fatherfrathergathergathen rigdon was there and claims he never left josephs side he

1 therefore felt the blessing could not have been given aithovithowithoutu 4 his knowledge 1483148

1461bid1461bid 1 ppe 5 147reoeoranizedgardzed church hishHisthistouihxjgtoryoui voV 351361 148e R M rigdon handwritten tanuscriptmanuscriptrtitanuscript brigmabelgbeigbrigmmBrigbrigloaraloarahoara young university appp 555655 56 67 when at libertylibera y the prisoners made totvo fttempjattemptsz s to escaescapepe the first of these was rademade1 on february 68 3839 but vasvacwaswac unsuccessfulunsuccrissful they had cotuisccounseledvied togethrtogethertogether1 r and decided to makemahenaakemaake their attempt the evening of february 7 whenehgwhg ln the jailerjaller brought their suppesupperr alexander mcrae reports that joseph smith inquired of the lord and was toldtoldy hatthat if we were all agreed we could go clean that evening and if we would ask we should have a tes4tesatestimony6 ifponyforfor our- selves M they all agreed to go butlemanbutlymanbutbue lyman wight who saidsaldsaddsahd he would not go until the following night knoknowingvringwring that they had to be united to succeed they agreed to wait ulenehenuhenmienwhen the jailer cardecame with supper he left the door wide open and went to the bacback of the jail and commencedcormen ced reading a boobookboom sincsince4aaa they had agreed on the next night for the escape no alteriatteriattemptrp t wasmadevaswas made at this time the following evening camecamercames but circumstances were now quite differediffenedifferentdifdlffere ti to six of the brethren from the church had come to visivleivielvisittt and this made the jailer nervous so he was attended by another guard at suppertime although circumstances were not favorable the prisoners were determzdeterminedined to follow their plan ahenvhenyhen the jailer started to leave they tried to follow but the jailer succeeded in closing the door and locking themtheim in 149 this attempted escape created immense feelings against the prisoners as well as those who were in the jail at the

149aiexander340140alexander mcrae incidents in the history of joseph smith millennial star XVII march 3 1855 136- 1371370 6068 time men ffromaromzrom thethel towneown and county gatheredgatheared at the prison with p-roposalsropopoposalssais to kill the prisoners but could not agree con- cerncerninglngang what actionacllonion shouashou1should1 d be takentelgen because of the inde- cision the crowd disperseddispedespe1 asedrsed and the brethren were not harmed those visiting the jailjalljaliyasiyadi at that time were considered accessories before the fact and verewere forced to stand trial defended himself and was dischardischargedgedo but uiedietheuleeheebe others were bound over snow paid their bail and all iverevecewere released the second attempted escape was in march when the prisoners tried to dig their way out the digging vasTOSwas molemoremore difficult thathaithan1 anticipatedaiiticipated andcand required too much time joseph reported that they were discovered one minute before a possible escape this time the reaction of the populacepopu3 ace wabwasas quite different and the people no longer3 oneyeroncyer blaibialblamedned thetheithe7them7ji for the attempt 3903150190900 this change in attitude could rejperhapshaPS attribute to be the bad publicity that the governors extermination order was recreceivingnecrabingaving and the knowledge of judge kings sltealteex parte hearing that vaswaswae now quite common through the vinterwinter there were nerousnumerous attempts by the prisoners to secure a fair trial of their casecasescasey but Calleliklikii411 failed letters were sent by the prisoners and friends to the legislature and supreme court but always with no success at one point a writ of habeashabegs coccozcozingcodingus was applied for before judge turnham which was granted withwisth great

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151 c L oy reluctancere 1 u t nk e on january 25 s the prisoners appearedappear d beforebezorebp the hidgejudgeI1 and with the exceptionexamexcmPtion of sianessidney rigdon all were represented by alexandealexanderr doniphan sidney rigdon plead his case and was admitted bailballbalibai while th rest were remanded back to their cells 152 on march 15 separateseparalCe petitions were drawn up for each of the prisoners seeking either a writ of hjsehhosehhabeas con2luxrziseegeeSEH or a change of venue these documezdocudocumentsmermez ts were carriedhJto the capital by heber C kimball and theodore turley to bring them to the attentattentionionlon of the state supreme court kimball

s and turley ventvankvenkwantwent first to thechrche1 secretary of state where they were unsuccessful and then to the Susupremepreine court judges with similar results the writ of was denied on the grounds that the order of commitment to prison was illegally illedfilledbilledf out and the change 0-of1 venue irasrasinasvaswasinas denied because it was not made correctly 153 early in april 1839 the legislature approved a change 0ofL venue to boone county 9 but before the word reached liberty judge king ordered the prisoners to daviess county to stand trialtriaitelaltrials shortly after arriving in Gallgallatinafcinachin daviess county they receivedreceroceived word concerning the change of venue but the grand jury refused to honor this requeslrequestrequesL instead another trial occurred it commenced april 9 and lasted one week at the conclusion the grand jury brought in a

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1531birl1531 pnz bidbirlbiri f ppanz1 288289288 289 70 bill for murder treason arsoncarson larceny theftthrahraftsft and stestealingilllil g vl54t154 on april 15 theulewiegre prisoners finallyafinally started for boone county the following document was sent with themthein but originally did not contain date nainename or place on the eighth day of april eighteen hwhundredidredadred and thirty nine at the house of elisha B creekmore in said courtcourts is being the temporary place of holding the court for said county present the honorable thamasthomas C burch judge the following proceedings verewerewe-re had to witit the state of missouri vs joseph smith jr lyman hightwight and others indi ctmentcament for larceny the judge of this court having beenbeeribeebibeewi counsel in thisthig cause andana the partiespartiedpartie3 therthereinearlearieyrl not consented to a trialtrifil thereof in this court but the said defendants josljoeljosephjoeeph snithsuichsmithsral th jr and lawzl1wzlymann wight objectingJ thereto2 ffoe foror the reason that the judge of this court has been olof01 coimselcoixi se 1 in this cause itlt is ordered by the court here that said cause as to the said joseph smithsinith jr and lyrianlyman wight be removed to the circuitcircuift court oforfort the county of boone in the srsecondcond judicial circuit in this state it is further orderaordercorderedbri by the court that the sheriffeo heriff of the county cfof daviess do 4 cherif and he 1 s hereby commanded to remove the bodibodieselsols of0 the is 1 said joseph smith jr and lyman wight to the jajalljailjalil of the county of boone and there deliver them to the keeper of the said jailjalljalijalis togethetogetherr althwithwuthlth the warrant or processprocy ss by which they are imprisoned and held 1555 it vasvaewas while en route to boone county that the prisoners were able to escape lyman left the following account of how this escape was accomplishaccomplishededieds

1541bid1541 bid 1 p 315 155journal155journal of Histhistoryorysoryo III111 485486485 486 71 Tthene sheriff selected fourour men to guard five of us it ue hehhenehrih totootzbootzjk ac circuitousci rcui tolls route croscrossings3sa ng prairiespra3prac riesrlesnies silteesixteensiytee11 miles without horseshorsen andaind after traveling three darsdaydeydaysdayspsp theehe sheriff and I1 were tagetherogethertogether by mirseourselvesmirspives five miles fromfront any of the rest of the couioanyc kiiloiilpany fo-forzorr sixtsixteeneen 1 haca nalesmilesmaies at a retcastretchLletca the sheriffST A Llffiff hanlhernherere observed to me thatonat he wished to god he was at homehornehonne and your friends and you also thethek sheriff then showed me the mittimittimusmust and heheahen found it had neither daydazydaay nor date to itsit and said the inhabitants of daviess county would be surprised thrahrthat51t the prisoners had not left them sooner andands said he by G I1 shall not go much further 9 we were then near yellow creek and there were no houses nearer than slsixteenxtoneri miles one wayways and elevenelgeig ven another way except riricihtfht on the creelcree here a part of the guard tootookk a spree while the balance helped Uuss to mountmoune our horses which viewekrewie purchased of thethemorriorrtorui and fortorgorgoc which they were paid here we took change of venue and went to quincy without difficulty whereanerevnere we founrounfoundroundfoundroundyoun0 our families who hadhaldhalg been driven out of the state under the externinatingextermiratingexterminating order of governor boggs 156

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the trip to quincy adams county illinois took about ten days and upon arrivala rrivf1 I lymaniyman found hishift family poortoloracorncor but in good health after locaelocatingA ng a house to rent he rovedlovedmoved in with his family and commenced working to taketaicetayce crecatecarecarc2.2 ofoel their6 needs 3573.577 on may 5 183918390 a conferenceconferences was heleheieheldhold at quincyquinzyqu5ricyaricy ardandaneare lnlymanrtanartanotan received a special assignment he was appointeeappodappo4 ntedanted to ryding gather affidavilaffidavitaffidavitsLtz conaconcerningxyding the lossloloseiose10 s of Iifelifeilfefe and damage sustained bbyrr the saints in missouri these affidavits irelvevere to bebeaheahen sent to washington to malematile the claims of ththeza saints c deownteownknovrn to the leaders of the nation 158

lyman had been very close to the problems in missouri111111 11 S govgou130v ri by virtue of his leadership capacity over a large partparbpa ft of the saintssaintst military forces hehaepiepae apparently formed soresonesome stroilstrongg opinions as to who caused the persecution of the church on may 11 1839 an article written by lyman appeared in the quipszniaquincyqujncy whig in which his feelingsfeeafee1 ings were presented on the subject wight quoted from a letter he had written to

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72 73 thomasnomas banbcnbenttonorlori whichVItichxichvich ououtlinedlined uttaldanymanyly of the trialstrilalsais endured by the saintsit and then included this paragraphspa raqraph

117417 1 sir I1 would gladly forbiborbiforbearN-C ar but mmy dutyI prompts me to say thathatthatt11 it cainecalnecalcaicamene byLY the wielded ntislnuislmisruleuieule of democracydemodamo racy that iklmocracydemocracy which you and I1ir have so dearly lovesloveds yes it commenced in 1832 and has been fanned by enthusiastic demagogues untilmitilwitllitil they have succeeded in driving at least five or six thousandCLilioikloihlousand inhabitants including eight hundred democrat voters fromsrom the state l19 9 from statements such as these it became apparent that lyman put a great deal of blame on the deattocraticautocraticdemocratic party of missouri since the democrats at quincy had done much to help thethin destitute saints these accusations offended some of the inhabitants of illinois the article by lyman appeared in the paper of satur- day and by monday the received a letterietter frofromatxt R B thompsothompsonti complaining of lymansclymans conduct 3601603 60 thompsonthompThumpson had been visited byaby a mr morris who asked him what sasvaswas

11thel intended byA some publications and why we attacked the democracy of the nation when they were doing Callailali411 in their power to assist the Morcormonsmormonsmons in light of the Aeelingsfeelingseerlings created among the democrats at quincy thompson suggested a course of action for the church to followtfollows I1 think we ought to correct the public mind on thistadt1d s subject and as a church disavow all connection with politics by such a procedure we may in some measure counteract the baneful influence which his letters have occasioned

159 159qui159quincyQuincyPXP X whig quiriQuirlquincycys illinoisillinoiseillinoisp may 11 1839 1600qjoumalournalburnal history may 13 1839 74 the first freserespresidencyi dency wasted no tiwabema in acting in accord to ethnerethmerbrotherbv thompsonsthornpsonls suggestion A letter leraswaswes written oion

16 friday whichmnich appeared in the whimaltamnlta thehe following daydavsA Gentgentlemenlemanslemens some letters in your papepaper have apoappearedeared over the signature of lyman wightv11 ght in relationn to your 6 aht relatio affairs with missouri we consider is mr wightswiehrwighr4 s privilege to express his opinion in itrelation to politicalpollitical or religious matters and lietievetwe profess no authority in the case whatever but we have thought and do still thinks that it is not doing our cause justice to rakewakemakeramemame a politi- cal question of it in any matter whateverwhate eraerf we have not at any time thought there was advanvany political party assmsams such chargeablechargeablochargeablychargeabioabloabiga vithwith the missoumissourimassoun barbarities neither any religious society as such they were connittedconnitcormittedcommittedtedhed by a mob composed of all partparties regardless of all differences ciofL opopinionlldon eithereltherelthea political or religious the determined stand in this statesi ate and by the people of quincy in particular made against the lawless out- rages of the missouriis robbersmobbers by all parties in politics and religion have entitled themtherethern equally to our thanks vre and our profoundest regards 9 and ssuchklech gentlemen viewe hope they villviiiwill alvaysaldaysalwaysalimncys receive fromfroin us favors of this rindkind oughtouaht to be gravenengravedengravenen on the rock to last forever we wish to say to the public through your paierpaperpa-ler that we disclaidisclaimm any intention oofoeE maki-makingiig a politpolitical1074J cuclestioncuestionquestionestion of our difdlfdifedifficultiesE cuties vithwithVTI th missouri belbeibelievingevievl nc that we are not austif3ustifjustifiedled in so doing we ask thethew aid of all partpartiespartlesslestiestless both in politicpoliticss ilandri religion to have justicejusticestica done us and obtain07 tain redressredicredrcredrc c s we thinicthinie gentlemen in so sayisayingncr vewe have the feefeolingcA ings of rrepresent our people cgenerallyfenernfegerna 11rs howeverho wever 41 present individualsindividuzilsie irayinaymay differ and we wish you to consider the letters of lyman wight as the feelings and vie-viewsts of an indiaindivindividual1 dual but not of0I1 the society ascis suchsuche we are satisfied that our people as a body disclaim allaliaila I1 I1 sucheuchbuchs ut en sentiments and ffeel themselvestheitheltiselves equally bound to both eel w- parties in this state as far as kikindnessednessndness is concernedcon crlcre rned and good will 2 and also alievebelievebellevebe that all political03itica parties in missouri are equally guilty 1661 although the first presidency did not condemn lyan they made a definitede1 initeanite distinction betweenbetwbeaween the viviewsevs of& an indiviindividualdual member and those of the church this position

igli1611bid1611bid may 18 1839 75 tasivaswas furtherfurturhhe clarifiedcI1arifris Jleledd in a I1etterietterletterleeteretter ffronfromroi-i tthetaee first prepresidencysidsidlencylencypency to R B thompson the leaders again expressedtIE x ressrresar d disapprovalheausa 0val

1 of making a politicalpoliti calcai queston out0citcia of the missouri13 S r suffer-s U ffer ings and then expressed the following opinions having however gregreatgroattt confidence in colonel kattskhttswights good intentions and considering it to be the indefensible right of evereveryY free man to holdhoidh d his owlogioun opinion in politics as veliveilwellweilweli as religion we will only say that we consider to be unwise as unfair it it is JT to charge any one party in politics or any aofL al 1622 religionists with having been our oppressors 0 joseph smithsiriiisirini h wrote a personal letterietterichter to lyman declar- ing his disagreement with thrtheahr attempt to makemame the mlsMismissourisouisoul political but expressed conficonfidencebonfidence in his good intentions and personal high regard for lynaarlymanlynaanLymaannaan we do not all approve of the course haichwaichmalchwhich you tevemeveI tavitavani thoughthugh proper to take in making the subject of our sufsufferingsf eringsbrings a politicalp01iti ca I1 questionques cionclon Aat the same time you will perceive that we theretheire express that we really feel that issa s9 azi confidence in your good intentions and as I1 took occasion to state to the council knowing your integritinteintegritygrity of principle and steadfastness in the cause of christ I1 feel not to exercise even the priviprivilegeleae 0offf counsel on the subject save only to request that you will endeavor to bear in mind the importance of the subject and how easy mitmightghe be to get a mis- it into 163 understanding vithwith the brethren concerning it 41 a in reference to the letter of the first presidency that appeared I1inn the quincy whig lyman wrote a reply and stated that he did not wish to make a political issue of the missouri troubles however he said that he could notnohno help noticing the number of leaders aniongadiongamong the mobs that affiliated with the democratic party listing as examples of his p7lpalpyl nismcism j 1621biclIbic may 27 1839 1631bid1631bid may 27 1839 76 observation moses wilson lilburnlllburn boggs colonel pitcher john darkclarkgark judge Tomkintomkinssp judge kingkingskingo colonel bogartbogarty and judge birch 164 in addition to these articles lyman also ran a series of articles telling of the history of the saints in missouri this series was published in the quincyuinminjincywhiwhig vaswas started on may 18 1839 and continued through june 8 1839183941 sometime in june lyman left on a mission to the east where he remained until september 8 1839 after his return he reported baptizing many as veilvellveliwell as meeting with hundreds of scattered saints 16516 on october 5 when general conference convened in nauvoo lyman was there hehie tookcooktoolsbook an active part by speaking on three occasions as veilvellveli as offering a resolutiresolutionont that a new edition of hymn books be printed immediateimmediatelylytlys and that the one published by D waWw1 rogers be utterly discarded by the churchchurch166166 the resolution vaswas passed by the conference while at nauvoo lyman visited the saints that settled across the mississippi river in lovaiova he vaswas at the home of asahel smithssmithpsmithy in nashville on october 19 1839 when a nevnew stake vas organizedorgani tedzed fforor the saints in iovalovaiowa john

tquincyrquincy164cincyuincy chigxhigwhig quincy illinoisillinoiseillinoisp june 1 183718370 165wilford165 ilfordWilford woodruff letter burnal166journal166 ournalourJournalnalnai history october 5 1839 77 slaithsm th was called as stzestake pesPpresidentposes dentdenh and selected Llymanrrmzn to be one of his counselors along tithvithviehwithtieh reninorenynoreynoldsids cahoon 167 lymanbyman returned to quincyquincrv and on november 15 movedmovmoveeamovec with his family to augusta iowa the next yearye ar was spent inaioalnamainlyI1 niy in caringca i ig fforor the temporal needs of lymanslymlansclymansLymLanstans family he did not hovhowhoweveravertevert forsake church responsibilities for his name is proprominentlyndocndnc ntant1 Y mentioned in the conferences of theA church during that time

jl lyman reported he was able to convert sixty or soseventyY

1mbersmembersMF 1ambers in the augusta branch vithwith sirsimilarsimullarnilaruliar successsucmss in thethres surrounding area 1683683.68368 january 7 1841 lyman went to nauvoo to visit the first presidency and obtain permission to go to neuhtcetcnewrt corizyoriz and 369 preach whiwhileI1 e therethe 17e hekiewie aciswcis appointed clonele of a xjlutteeA to help build the natrvoonancoonanvoo houehoume we find the following in3113.11 the Docdoctrinetrinei andcandgand covenants and again I1 say unto you that it is my will that my servant lyman wight should conticontinuenueN in peachingbeachingpreaching11 for zion in ththe spirit of meekness confessing me bibeforebezoreforee-ore the world and I1 will bfbear1.1 ar him up as on eaglets wings and he shall beget glory and honor to himself and unto my name that when he shall finishsinish his vorktwork that I1 may reca4recacreceiveve hinhim unto myself even as I1 did my servant david patten who is with me at this time and also my servant and also my aged servant joseph sirstrsinsmithsinithith selisellserisen who sitteth withmithwuthlthalth abraham at his right handhandahando and blesbiesbleeblessedsed and holy iss he for he 1iss winemine let my seryservantant georgeclorge and my servant lyman and my servant john snider and others build a house unto my

1671bid1671bid october 19 1839 liford168wilfordifordilford woodruff letter did1 69ibidbid 78 nardameymarmannameymameyte such a onon9oneone9 alsatsa myruyrnyuny servant joseph shallshrill show unto them upon the placesPICicicoiceo which he shall shoehobhoshowh unto thoatheinthernriihilbil also andainalnpind it shallchallchail be for a househousea for boboarding a boucehoucehoihotitseytse thatthattthatd stranshrangstrangersstrangarsstrangseranggarsdrs may euemueconecomerne fro4from4 ii afar to lodge thereinthprc in Charefotrarorrerorea be a goodfrohouse worthy of racceptaccepta-a therefore letiet it 4 all t1tation011 that thetha vearyweary traveltteavelttravelerr rtilayrayvlay findfingt 1 ildiilgld health andalid safety while he shllshilshiiahllshallshmil contemplateconteconterasconterajnairajnajlakelate the word of thethakhzkhebhe 1034lordd and thathe MmersiconecornerstonecoxnerstonepersiconeMersicone I1 have appointed for zion ro170

lyman 1ncancwass advised tcto relrejreturn1 urn to tojaiojatouaiowatowa and calcolcontinuecantitinuc preaching untiluniun I 1 1 apriapril confcrenconferencee when he could be sustainedsusta J ned in the new assignment 17-31l lyman returned to nauvoo for april conference and recelreceived ved inhiss official assignment to travel and calleccolleccollect1 funds for the and the new but found he would be sent orthocthforthf with new authority president smith observed that someonesome one should be appointed to fill david VW baittpcitfcenspaitt eieswesw 0 s positionPOS tion in the quorumquorunz of Twtwelveeliveellve president rigdon horiinoriinominatednatedbated elder lynan uighwighwight and he utvasutaswasas unanimously accepted 1722 lynanlyman s-spentcent the next month and a half agatheringa supplies locally to sCainsustainsu the workers of the nauvoo househonseH0use and temple and on may 27927 18411843 traveled to jackson countyounty missouri visiting the branches of the church on thethrethee way on returning to nauvoo in july he had been successful in collectcollectingi ng two hundred dollars and severityseventy head of cattle while home wight took time to move his family in

170d&cC 12418 222322 23 ththis1 s revelation aalsoaisoa1so1 so cocontainedrofairefaine1a1rc d instructions to build a temple in nauvoo 171wilford171wilford woodruffnoodwood uff iettlettletterlethekrebu

17 10 1 aar 172tl2tlmesmesmee nauvoo I s IV apr 1 ft and seasonsseasoyis illinois1111no7 aprill 15 1841s1841 387337 79 nauvconauvoo and get thcthemjhcismrsm situated berbeforeore leaving on anotheranotner mission 13173 lyman was away three months on this occasion and traveled through illinois kentucky tenntennesseetr sa s0aaa mississippimississipni and louisiana collecting funds for the temple 31437474 on march

15 9.9 1842 lyilymanayinarlnari and one hundred seventy english saints left new orleans for nauvoo oriorton the steamer ariel 11 theytihey wewerer greeted by the prophet upon their arrival march 27273 175 and lyman gave to him for the temple and nauvoo house about 3000 worth of goods which he had secured condoling largely of sugar and molasses4.4 176

wights time was novnow spent vizwizvithwithL h the business of thetilatile nauvoo house but we also find he was elected a merbermember of0 IF the city mimclslcouncil of nauvoo 177 lyman was an active mcdmcamembertiber of the and was narrowly defeated by wilson lavlaw 178 as its mamajor3 or general

173l3nnanlyman reported in his letter to wilford woodruwoodruffJU 4 that he left on this missmissionon on september 301ko0000.00 but we find from the minutes cf the october conference that lyman was there and taking an active part there is also some question about a statement in the minutes that lyman resigned his mission to collect fundsftmds for the tetempletempieincleinple and nauvoo house since he immediately left on this mission when conconfereeconferenconferenceferen ce ended

174 F iilfordbilford174vilfVilf ord Woodruwoodruflwoodruftwoodrufffl& ietterletter145 tterater 17sibbidld see also DHCDH IV 569 176tbidibid 177dilct177dh iv 160 178journal178journal history august 3 1842 the nauvoo nk legion was organized undcunderunacx authority of the1 nauvoo city chartelchartercharbel and consistedcons &stnd of four to five thousand armed men at its peak 80 in may 1842 dohnjohn C bennett one tirnebirne lawyer of nauvoo and a very influentialinflueinfluxatialabialatlay leader in obtaining the nauvoo citycicleyty chachartercharkerrter vaswaswae excoemcoexcommunicatedalij7lijA jn caj d ffromsromromcom the church forI- or inworalityinurorality he left nauvoo and starsbarstaredstarteded a caincainpaicampaignpaipal againstga inst joseph smith by printing and otherwise spreading many ffalsefaleea iseieelee accusationsaccusalaccusa t4ta ons againsti the 11prophet qion depteseptembersepte mtber 1 lyman and others were sent on a mission to try to help counte-counteractract the effect bennett vaswas having 179 lyman left nauvoo on septerseptemberinberanber 3 1842 and took his wife andalid tiotvotwotto childrenchildren vithwith hinnh ro they planned on visiting friends and relatives in neunevnew boricyorljyoricyorla 1in0 n addition to preachingpreachingppreaching183ibo183 the wights arrived in dayton ohio and called a conference at that place on october 8 lyman presidedpres ldededed and instructed tlethetho saints on the importsimportaimportanceimportapoctanceace of the call of joseph smith elder wight told themchem ofol01T the false rejreportsoctoceort being circulated by john C bennett and counseled them to follofollow joseph smith he urged that they gather to nauvoo and build zion at that place 181 following the conference lyman wrote the first presidency and reported great success and little persecution he planned on leavileavingng dayton and avelingtravelingtx next to sunbury ohiooill01111 op and from there to colubuscolumbuscoluColt bus then kirtland and center viville11e Nneew ycyorkrk 18218 2

9 tdhc179dhc IVsIVivy 160igo1600 18iltilford4 ord woodruff letter iJoijoumal181journal181 umaljournal history october 8 1842

iibidbibid1821bida1821bidebida V october 9 184218420 81

by october 17 conference was cciacciconvenedivenerj at sunbury under the leadersleadershiphiP 0ofL lrnanarnanLplpricinricin oinsonce again he counseled the saints to gather to nauvoo aandILd help build thethenthem temple and the nauvoo house the minutes ofolfcleote the rimeetingaleciepieeting report this strong testimony given by lylymaninan concerning the calling of josepjosephh smsmithtsmithsith brother wight declared himself able and willing to prove the character of joseph smith to be more meeksmeekymeems more humble an chase ejlso0sic and virtuous better qualified to fill his mission which is to usher in the fullness ofor all dispensations and gather the house of Israeisrael1 than any prophet fromfromm moses to alachimalachiMr he also challenged the world to bring enon their champion and he irasinasvaswas ready to meet him 183 lyman went to kirtland where he had tlemiendoustremendous success fromfront october 25 to november 7 niunumerousnerous meetings were held there in which he spoke to crowds numbering as hiclhigh as seven hundred people his discourses ranged ffromrom the iretfirstf principles and charity to workworm for theeheune dead inI1 1l the one week he was there well over tivotwotiyo hundred people verewereatawtaarewre baptized one hundred committed to gather to nautnauvooloovroosroov a 2500 grist mill varvaswaswa s consecrated to the churchchurchy and lyman created many good feelings towardbovardboward the church in the kirtland area lyman wrote that he would not return without thousands and tens of thousands with grist mills saw mills carding machines factories merchandiseineichinerchandisejandrsej cattlecattiecattlescatties sheep and horses and in short the falnessfulness of the gentiles there never has been the time he saidsaldsaidt when the gospelgospelspei could be

1831bid1831bid october 1717p 1842 88241 preached with the saresanessa aesaea eastezsaeasa aalanlant iinfluencej1rjuent e as at the present oabgab 4 ttimeiraelp joseph broolbrooksrA s victovrctoiirrctcY jasephjosephUraseroseroscph smithL on the day lyman

1 i lefleftt kirtland atand1.1 ad1d reported tthalthatclat eveevena the rmostmosh hostile wrverewereyereibre nwnovnow friendlyfriendly with lymanlynt an wightwllwil ahtght 1853 595 9 lyman continued his journeyjotjolurney to new boricyoryoric where he spent timetinaetinne with his family it vasveswaswes perhaps at this tintetimeeimeelmeeinieelnie that he vaswastwas successful in converting a labernumber of his family for we find later that one sister went vithwith him to texas and three nephews and their ffamiliesariartant 1l liesllesiles went to utah with the saints V186v3636

4 on the return trintrip to0 o nancoonanvoonauvooj lynanlyman stopped again iniiiiiillI

e kirtland whwhore1 re he heldanotabnot anotherer conferencecooffemnffem biclerichericle on april 7 184318430 joseph smith reported that thisuhls time he was successful in baatbaptbaptizingzing one hundred apostatesapos atraakaar s and sonesome new nmergerseptibereber IV

achedfed 4 for samesome reacreasonreaconon lyman must have backtrackedbacrbarbackbackirkiy acsedactrackedSed ati- ththis pointC rfor0391 oilon apriapril1 25 john E page wrote josjosephmph smsmithith andan di reported lyman was at pittsburfnpittsburgh page further stated thatthutehatkhatkhae lyman had becbezbecomev N intoxicated in thetha preEprespresencepresenceence of the worldvorwor3aaa and saints 1880188 this is the firsfirst of a number cfof reports that lywclywchlymanM had a probproblemleNra with drinking lyrianlynianlyman and his family returned to nauvoo on junejuno 16s16

184ibid184 bidibid october 26 1842 1851bid1851bid november 7tat7 1842 186seeee third meratGegemeratgenerationi on genealogy records brigham young university 187d2l87dt tcvicv vvv 352 nolimal1journalimaiimalolimalOL history april 25 16431843 0383

n tay 1843 and started prpreparationspaipal ationsactions ttoi leavelecave for wisconswisconsintol 3 where lunberiunberdunber was being obtained forfox 1hah

L vthj 3aaa during the nexnextk monthmouthmoumon ith whilevtha ic preparing to lecaklecavleave nauvoo lyman was called to trtestifyrtr L fy in behalf of joseph smith who vaswasvaasweaswaas on trial in connection with the missouri

4 difficulties lyman gave one of the sigsignificsignificssignificantnificzan 4 stimorxiestestimoniestc at ththiss trial which contained many important details of the

M IS1899 history of the church in missouriJSSOU ri C

tapictdpicicylcy ttlIIIills111tlly 437449437 449 CHAPTER X

THE MOVEMOVK TO THE PINSPINE COUNTRYCOUNITFZY MIDAND evaEVENTSitsTTS associateds0c1xpeda3aa nithWITH THE DEATH OF0 JOSEPH SMITH

one of the early undertakings of the nauvoo househou se coimitteecommitteecomimittee was to purchapurchasepurchlseasea a pinery on the black rivrimriverr aloveabove lacrosse atnt a cost of twelve thousand dollars 190igoc george miller had takentarentarent a concompanycompanty ofcs saints there to acquire lwnbelumberr As imsas mentiormentioneded in thetha previous chchapteripa7p4 tr lyman had started preparationsprepara4 iorisloris in prilspriisaprilaprilsaprilyA 1843 to go there hamzh4mzhimselfJ self the followingfolfoiloving vaswas decrrecrrecordedreco5dedededrdedcrded in hhislc journal under the datebatetdatet july 30 1843518430& I1 was busily engaged in my domestic craeicernsconcernsei cerns and zrisocleoieoleoiso in making preparationsprepa rationslons to moveni875921 my family to the li2iiberburberlumberbumberkiiber country in wisconsin territory on black riverrivers dislancdi sLanc fromfroim this place about five hundred alesaiesniesmilesr e I1 accordingly started on the 22nd of july with my family and about one hundred and fifty persons besidesbesldesidesidec concistcorlsistconcise ing afof menmemmeensmeems vorwarworwartienmartienwomentien and children with no purposepur fsrosr inovik0111 vaevagvaghviewW only to procure lumber to build the templetempie the kauvonauvonauvooa house and to assist in the building up of thetlletile city of nauvoo the building committees of these two houses1 louses are 4 now thetheathen proprieproprietors1 ors of mills and a limberinglumbering esestablish-cablish ment in that place we passed up the mississippi river on the stesteameranieranleranter ridaldt aidmaidmald of iowa t and ran as ffarax up as the head of black river lakelakeslakey where we landed on ththeeheuhe 26th instdinstinsfc s at eleven olclodoclockc ama m fifty miles belovbelow the

190lynian190igolymanLynian wight JA q s by lyman 1 te ajiajl33AJLaddress33 zodiac texas wight 1848 p 4 located in thezheche ch100churchi historianhistorians s officeorficeoffi e 84 885 mills from this to the 30th of july I1 was scouting abouaboutAC andendcand viewing the jfairfeirf quality and situation of the county and patientlyairtaitingbaitingaiawaiting for the arrival of the boats from the falls on black river to convey us up thethoth 301 river to the millsmi 11 11 and on this which is the 30thh of we them and V july the boats arrived loaded theitheathen started folfor3 m 19139119191 the mills wherewho re we landerlandedI1 on the ath4th of august 184338433.843 igi it was necessary that the companyc-onr any leave the steamer at lacrosse and ascend the black riveriverL to the falls by flflatriakt boats these boats were ten feet wide and thirty feet long and were propelled by push poles paddles and by pulling on overhangoverhanginging brush 192 while proceeding up the riverriversrivery lymansclymans youngest son loanaloamiJL who was fourfour years old fell off the boat and wavaswas trtrappedCappedtrappee for a time underneath it the boys brotbrotherbrothersherthers levilevis jumped in the river and took him to shore thinking he had drownedrownedA leviD vi went for lyman and when they returned found

c loamiloama struggling to breathe with helpheiphj1 lipvip from his father he soon recovered 193 the winter in the pinery was apparentlya parently difficult

N 4 one of thethesthen major problems was the lack 0ofL sufficient food men women and children verevorewerewore on half rations for days there were tirrtetirrtimestirrietE s when only a little bread was available and nothing to go with it 194 the supplies they did secure were brought in from lacrosse by sleigh after the river had frozen lyman also

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1921 .9 1931 1921bidbid IX 9 260 bibid1931bidesibidbide 1941bid1941bidibid p 2622621826248 86 expressede pressepresscpressa d concerncoa celcercernn oreoveri a problem with those of the cocompanyricanyripany that wcwereireare1re lazy and did not do their share of the work in addition to cutting iualualumberitibertiben lyrian continued his missionary laborslabore3 this timebimehimeblineblime among the L1diansindians theyTJI1ey werewe A e found to be receptireceptivevre and willing to accept counsel inin bothbciehlehIth

1I 195 temporal and spiritual aaffairsLlfaafa irs

duringduruduningng the vinterwinter lyman conceived the idea 0ofL going to texas in a I1ietterletterlethere 1 to the firstFO rst preslpresidencyodencyodogencyency rbrearybruaryfebruaryle 15 1844 lyman described this planpianplantpiantplans novnow1 under all these circumstances a few of us havehavn arrived at this conclusion in cur minds such as can undergo all things I1 that as thethobhekhebho gospelGOSPEA1 has not bbeeabebaen c3 ful1vfully opened in all the south and southsouthwesternf festenrestenwesterhwestern tatesstates & as also texas brazil cec j9 together with the hostnostwestwost indian islands111ands18111 ands having produced lumber enough to build the templetempieTetriple and nauvoo house also having an influence over 1thehe indiansIndiindiannsindiannaanns so as to induce themahemthoem to as aco sell ththeirkheir1 1 r lanianlands2s to the united states and go to a clicilcliraatecliwtateraate southrensouthwestst all according to the policy or- the US government3overnmcm it and avingabinghavingli also become convincedconLvincesvincasvinced thatahatahal the church at nauvoo or in the easterneaste1 tarn states will not build the nauvoo househousa according to the conmiandnientcorcoiandmient neither the temple in a asonablerasonablereasonablerr asonable ILirietimeimiekime and that vewe have so far as we have made trials got means inign the southsouthsmouths we have in our minds to go to the ableahleahiettabletabietahletablelandshaibailandslata ids of texas to a point we may find to be the moffmofc eligibleeliglibieisble there locate and let it be a place of gatheringlfor all the Ssouth they being inzincincumberedincuizibereduncumberedumbered with thatunfortlinatthat anforunfortunatee & racerace ofc beingsings the negroes1negroesnegroesgroos 1 and fforor us to employ our time and talents in gathering together means to build 4 according to the commandments of our god and spread the4 e gospelgospicgosprci 1 to the nations according to the will of our heavenly father 196 in the spring having been successful in obobtainingC ainingaaning enough lumber forffonor the trip to nauvoo thestidestheytidey constructed raraftsF ts on which the lumber could bebeaben hauled and startedstaeuagua actedcted dodovdownvrn thethie

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4 rilriserriverciecleclemarM1rar on one of thebhecloheclo he raftsrrifcisnis s a czb4nxbinA was built providing

0 shelter forfor lycanslynanss ffamilyami 1yo rocks were placed in front1 aront of0f it in which fires could be builtbl 11 31 t for the preparing of0 food their meals during the trip cons3siconsisteded of fish mdand ducks tril1711whichich were caught as they floated along the river items also verewere obtained by trading with thethehe indians camped along the banks of the river 1979 after arriving in nauvoo on may 1 1844 lyllymanilan reported spending the ensuing three weeksveersweers in close contact withwith1 joseph smith being ffrequently instructed& p byvt1.1 the prophet 198 whawhj ie lymanlymen had been in wisconsin joseph smith had written letters to the five candidates for the presidespresideiicy lcyicy of the united states in these letters heliekiekle had desired to know what action thesethose meimelmeilmellmeni would take relative to the cialiclairclaimstisilslis of the saintssaineseaines in missouri if they werewore elected the proalproplprop3iefciet only received three replies and theylietilet61 1 vierewere unsatisfactory for CaL nwnumbertibereiberelber ofor reasons joseph athsmithsi allowed hishieh L s nartinarlanarianamet tcto s be placed inn nomlinatnominationionlon for the office0 A fi ce of presipresidentedeodentsants and published his views on the powers and policy of the govern- ment of united states 199 may 17 1844 a state convention was held at nauvoo

boumal197liournaloumal of history IX 261261 198wilford woodruff letter 199bsB H robertsrobertssrobertso A prehensivecomprehensivecoinprehensivecolnCoin histhihishstooryry of jpheephethcjhc church of jasusjosussus christ of latterlateerlatterdaydazdaxday bailtssatneatnaintstsisalt1saltsaltsait lake city ubah A 1930 A utahutaltunalt desnetdeseretdesnKAK et newsnemsnows press 1930ttttl930 202202209202w 2090 9aaa 8688 wherewheye joseph smith and sidneysidnay riladoinrigdonRILadolndoin verewere fformally nominated as president and vice presipresidentpresidentgent ofdent the Reforredformedreformed party lyman attended this convention and tooltoortook an active

4cac part as the delegate from crawfcravrfordord county illinoisI1 lilno11ino E I1it was decided that a national convention would be held in baltimore on july 13 1844 t and lyman wight orson hyde reberheber C kimball david S hollister and verewerewerevere selected to represent the state convention at that place 200 on may 21 1844 lyman vightwightwights heber C kinkKintkimballbailsballsbaily brigham young and about one hundred eldereidereiderselderss lefleftlefet nauvoo on the steamer osprey ft11 their riaissiomission1.1 vaswas to advocate joseohjoseph smith for president atteattemptiretirpt to overcome the effects of the apostate johjohnri C bennett who was working to dedefame41anme the prophets character gather delegates forfoar the baltimore cievecinveconventionrition& and preach the gospel of jesus christ AsASO they pulled away from shore lyman said the missionaries gave three cheers forfon the next president of the united states joseph smith 201 lyman wastedvastedeed no titimeme in ffulfillinguif111 ling hishihies cacallingI1 ling fforor he gave an address wherein he set orthfforthsorth josepjosephht s claim to the plresidenpresidencyCYO there vaswasv as ffrequent interruptinterruptionon by those on board clappclappingimg in approval of what lyman was saying when

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2011jightwight to joseph smithsmithssmithy june 1919v 1844 9 located in church histohistorianslantsiantscants office concerning this letter B heH roberts has said this letterietter represents elder wiowightht at his best and shoiahoishowashow37sas himhirn to be allalaaiaan apostle of the lord jesus of no inferiorI1 order DHC VII 139 89 the speech braskaaswasmas finishedfinishedfinirinished and a vote was taken among the 165 passengers as to whomwhopza theytheaythemy preferredpref arrrrrad3d as president josephjoseph smith received a large majority of the votes elder wight and his companions reached st loullouisloulss the following day where they called the membership of the church consisting of approximately seven hundred members together to instruct them spirituespirituspirituallyallyaily and politically after remaining in st louis one daydaytdays they boarded the stesteameranleranteramler louis phillippe 1I for cincinnati the two hundred passengers were prejudicedpre 3udiceduniced against the elders until brbrigham1 bhainghain young and william smith cgave two powerful addresses after the talks lyman reported that the elders wel-vereweree consid- ered to be superiors to the rest of the passengers

on may 26 1844 they carrcarriedarrivedcarrvedved in3 n cincinnaticinc1nnati1 and after changing their trunks to the steamer NepneptuneEMner u lyman began talking politics to bambersmembersmambers and non members later he wrote to joseph and related a conversation vithwithw th a mr david guard of laurencelavrenceburgLavrencelawrzenceburgburg Indiindianaanatanas who was supposedly worth about three Vaoenothousandusand dolladollarsrs and one of the first settlerssettierscledeblede in cincinnati s he gave me his views on politlpolitapoliticscs which completely corresponded wiwithth yoursyours I1 then gave him two copiescoplescopiesles of yours hehethex was so hhighlyghly pleapieapleasedseld with them he pledged his vondwordwondwo he would have them published in both the lavrencelawrenceLa vrienmerrenme berg lsicalsicsic papers as they were both published under his roof and if they did not comply with so reasonable a request they the editors would have to seek shelter elsewhere he also stated that joseph smith was the first ranman since the days ofor washington and jefferson who had been frankfronkfranic and honest enough to give his views to the people before elected and said he would 90 go hishah3 s whoiewholewho1eae length for such a man and that if you were not elected this timetixthixtte yyou0u would be the next 22202 lyman told joseph this was but a samplesampie of the ffavorable reaction he had received concerning Josephjosephsts candidacy from cincinnati the elderseiders traveled to and then by steamer ststageageuge and rail to washington where they arrived june 2 1844 lymaslymans reaction to the city vaswas that of disgust he said it resembles for all the world more the methodist slough asiccsicsic of despond that anything like a decent city the greatgroat metropolis was ffilledlied up with demagagesdemagages esiclesicasic jackleg lawyers and biadbladblacklegcleg Tgamblersambierambleramblersisi and everythingeverytaveryt lseiseelseeise but intelliintelligenceence 2031203 the next week was spent in making every atteetteatterekterecteratteroptaptopt possiblipossiblepossiblypossiblila to present the cause of the saints in missouri beforebefbeaore the congress it was suggested by some such as general david atchison judge serplesemple and major hughes that the state of missouri should be sued for theytiney feltfelefeie there was enough virtue in the state to answer the demand wilmington delawareDelaunareware was the next stop for the missionaries A date was set for a conference and then they proceeded to Philaphiladelvphiladelphiadelvdelydeiyaliiilii a shewherewhere lyman reported theehe4 he folfoifollowingloving situation the chardchurdchurchi here numbers nearly 200 out of which number many have commenced sicken1sickeningrigs and were growing faint at the many false reports in circulation fearing that the prophet had fallen and the tvrelavreltwelveve were in trans- gressiongression but they have since learned that the prophet is right and thatenat the twelve are with him and they are

202ibi202ibid202ibidd 203ibid203 ibid 91 beginning to rreviverev ve they have stood six tremltremendouseldous shocks and I1 thinathink ifI1 IC they stand the seventh which is to come totomorrowriiorrow eveninreveningft thetheyehekheyty vdlllvdell survive we shall call on therathemthern to knomnoknow whether they intend to gather with the living and sustain the cause of god by the mouth of hisliisllis prophets andanciano apostles or die ililiiin111 Philaphiladelphiadelphici if they should choosechoose the latiatterlatterlatkerterstery we shall attend theehe1 he funeral ceremonies and leave them to rest with the dead and we will go on our way among the livinglivings if they should choose the former we shall expect a glogiogloriousrious workwotka in this place 204 on the day joseph anithnnithsmithS and hyrum were killed lyman and heber C kimball were traveling to new york from phila- delphia heber reported feelfoelfeelingng very mournful as thoughchoughthought c they had lost a friend but he knew not thethenthem cause 205 their labors in the east continued speaking in places such as bunkerbuntzetbuntzen hill on july 9 1844 while at salem massachusettsmassa cht v setts the first word olof01L the prophets death was received they proceeded onornown their journey to boston then to neitneltneirnenewit york then by rail to phiphiladelphialadeiphia from there to Wiliningtonwilmington and finallyanallyfinally to baltimore since many contra- dictory reports ofor the Propheprophetpropheittsitts death veirevereweireveceweicewere received they went to the lord in prayer and asked folforsolsoisor an answer concern- ing that which had occurred heber C kimball then venwenwentvenewene to

1I the post officeof L ice where he found letters from his wife confirm- ing0 the reports 206 wight and kimball then started fforsoror nauvoo inelneinforminganningonning thesaintsthe saints of the martyrdom as they traveled by july 18t18 heberkeberkeherheher C kimball had joined Brigbrighamhiam young in boston no record could be found of wights

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areyre mo rre L .1 movementsments fromfronzi that timetintetimatimte untilJ julyruly 24sZ4 1 when hehc arrived in boston and found brighabrighamznan yothyoungia heber14 iderlder 0 kimballkj Triball and others waiting for himhint so they could continue their journey to

lr nauvoo the fact that thrtheahr1 velvewelvetwelve waited for lyman would seem to indicate that he was still in full fellowship with thouthonthem at that time further evidence of the feelings of the brethren towards lyman are found in a letteietteletterietterL written by brigham young to prior to wights arriaarrivarrivalal at boston wherein the president of the twelve stated brother lynanlyman wight has never been with us befolbedolbeforee he is a great good nobleheartednoble hearted manmam 207111207 on july 24 elder wight left boston for nauvoo in company with elders brighabrighamii young and heber C kimball in the evening at albany new yorkyonkyorlkyorck they were joined by elders orson hydehydes orson pratt wilford woodruff and a sistersisasis416 er ruth sayers they continued their journey by railwayrca I1 y during the night on thursday eeveningrenings ulyjuly0 25 the six apostles arrived in buffalobuffalo10 niethehie next morning they all took a steamboatsteaseeainboatunboat at buffalo for Detrdetroitoitsolts michlMichimichigangarigarl elder hyde left the group at fairport ohio to visit relatives in kirtland the other five apostles arrived in detroit thethcehejhc evening of july 27 and stayed all night 208 the next morning at ten anitavilavitam onornown july 28 lyman wight and his companions left by the steamboat herliesherculesHerllesliesmles for chicago according to elifhilfwilfwilfordord woodruffswtoodruff Is journaljournalialj they spent

207ibid207 ibid p 232102300 208ibid208 ibid 93 ththis44s day in writing and in conversationconvers tion with one another ly and eiderelder wight said that joseph told him while in libeliberty3 rcy jail in missouri that he would not live to see forty years but that lyman should not reveal this until the prophet was dead 209 the apostles arrived at MacmackinacmackinanmackinawrinankinaN r on the northwest end of lake huron on august30august 30 where after taking on scimesolmesome freight the steamer continued south tinltinzthroughough lake michigan arriving in chicago on august I11 on august 2 at seven artamtairarlatrain they took a stage coach over very bad roads for galena illinois where they arriarrlarrivednedred at eight amamr on august 4 after fortyeightforty eight hours of constant travel 210 at galena they boarded the steamer osttstst croix which started downdoum the mississippi toward nauvoo that afternoon arriving there at eight o1clocko0clock in the evening august 696 1844 where they found a deendeep gloom over the city 211

thus I1 ffound a city with ten thousand inhabitantsn1nabitants4 lesetseh in mourning for one of uhernosttiletiieUhernostmost noble prophetspropbetshets of god since the world began and inhabitants thereof thrown into confusion by aspikinyaspiringaspikingkiny mensmen who sought the place of this noble man of god 2122 2 five membersnzanzmbers of the twelve six on part of the journey had spent two weeks together this was a time when they should have drawn close to one another and become teafunifiedtuafled in their actionsact2onrs As it turned out this was what happened with all except lyman nightwight within a ffewew days he

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211lbid21iibido s p 227 212lyman212LYman wight p9pap 550 94 was on a course of hishIS cwi aclactactingbenggeng 1 individually and rupe separately in most things from the otioeiotherllerilerlaer rusemusamembersinlibers of the theme next day those of the quorum at nauvoo includ- ing lyman wightwights met in council at the home of john taylorTaylorfiorni later in the day they met at the Seveanseventiesties hall and heard sidney rigdosrigdons claim to be a guardian of the church thenthenn brigham young spoke on the position of the twelve and called for a meeting of the priesthood quorums for the next day the following morning m- eten 0oclockI1 clock the brethr5brethrenn came together and were organized according to quorumsquorums in the list of apostles presentpresenpresentstp B H roberts does not include lyman wight in a footnote in the documentary thistoryhxgfcorythlTHi skorrstoryskony off thethejchurchcharenchuren he stated that elder wight was still in the east whiwhichch is obviously a mistake 21313 if lyman were at the meeting his name was not included in the minutesminutest if notno4noa4 the reason for his absence is no longer clear sometime later wight was reported as being sick which maymcay have kept himhlinhirn fromfroytrlarl this teetingmeetingir lyman later wrote concerning the outcome of this meeting and the decision to follow the twelve which might indicate he was present wight concluded by statinstastatingtstatingsstalingstingsgt thus you see the church stands regularly organized to bear off the kingdom triiphantriumphantlybly overove-ru the head of every opposition and to establish zion on more to be thrown down foreveforever 21423

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eldereider 14wightahtght is r10notnoht mentionedmentzconedbonedloned again until sunday august 11 when he preachedpreaCned on leading a company into the wildernessI1dernes a the followingfolloqcolloq1 Ing day he nietmetmeh in council with the twelve and it vaswas decided the pine company could go to texas as lyman desired 21521 5t on sunday august 18 brigham young spoke to the saints at nauvoo and said that lyman wight and the pine company were the only ones vithwith permission to lead a company out of nauvoonauvooo heliefle also included this cautiontcauticautionsont

and I1 tell you inL n the name of jesus christ that if lyman and george miller take a coarse rsiccsjfarsicL contrcontrarycy to our counsel and not act in concerconcertE withwitk us they will rithvith216 will be damned and go into destruction 0 young said that the whisperings or rumors that lymaniyman and his company voulwouldd receive their endowments before leaving nauvoo were false on august 24 the apostlesapos Ittlesatles and the temple and nauvoo house committees met at brigham youngyoungs to discuss the completion of the temple lyreanlyrnan was counseled to take his coricortcompanycomipany north to the pine country rather than south to texas

1 the blabiablackck river company 9 including the wight familyanily had sufferedsu 1 feredcered a good deal of sickness upon their return to nauvoo lyman felt this was caused by the marsh conditions there as compared to the good spring water they had become accustomed to in the pine country in light of this it was thought best to heed the counsel and go north for a few

215dhc215dilcl vilviltVIIvlis 2482492482490248 2492490 236021623 60journal history august 1818j 184438443.844 96 months untiuntilI1 thetheirr good heathhealth rereturned1 urnndt and then start for 23 texas 2172377 accordingly lwlymanianlan and the black river company ventwent to wisconsin and spent the wwinterinter then in early spring left for texas lyman felt he had been called by joseph smith for this special mission and none of the twelve had the rirightahtght to change the cacallcalicail11 in a letter to wilford woo- druff in 1857 he expressed these feelings as followfollowsss and it was well known by the twelve at that ttimeme thatihatahat joseph was sxivingstrivingLbiving very hard to come to this place with 250000 men he therefore requested me to come and establish a church in this region and such a mission was even talked of while in jail where I1 lihadad the advantage of six months teaching and received many things that are yet unknowntm to the church never having refused to obobesobeyv ucknounkno 218 the prophet I1 started in good faith 9 0

2l7lynian217lyynan might p 6 218wilfwilfordord woodruff letter CHAPTERiralraIIAPIIAliap P A E R XI

bymanLYYANLYMAN WIGHT GOES TO TEXAS

during the winter of 184418451844 1845 lyman sold the mills in wisconsin for a price that george miller considered to be a great loss this money along with that received fromfrojrfrojmti the sale of a partial raft of lumber originallyorig mally intended for the was used to pay the debts of the pine company 2102 IS thenN rhenthericheri oh march 28 1845 lyman nightwight and about one hundred liftyfiftyA menmeniomenik women and children started dovdownn the mississippi river on their journey to texas 220 the company was going to fulfill ahatvhatwhat they consideredconside-red to be a mission call from joseph smith the purpose of which was to estab- lish a gathering place for the saintsS in the southwest and teach the gospel to the indindians1.1 ans 221 their means of travel was four homemadehome made rafts which were constructed with a row of berths on both sides outside of which ran a walk the whole length of the boat the space through the center vaswas left for baggage stoves and cooking utensils the berths and thechethetthesches storage area were enclosed and covered with rough

219henlan219HenLaneman smith lyman wight colony in hale the c in texas typed assmss in possession of0 L writer 220wilford220wilford woodruff letietletlletterLt er 22llymanyman wight appp 343 4

97 98 boards there was a door in each end and windows between the berths 222

1 lymaslymants son reported hatthat4 they were very poor and his father had told al&lothershers that they must be able to travel days without eating and then be willing to eat a raw dog those who could not endure this hardship were not to folfoifollonfollovfolloitloiT him 223 the company arrived at davenportdavenports iowa on aprilapiril 13 where they dismantled the boats and sold the iberlumber to buy oxen wagons tents and other supplies so thethejourneyehe journey could continue one cannot help but wonder why the company did not continue the short distance to nauvoo and make these preparations among their friends they spent one monthmontaA mak- ing the necessary preparationspreparatpreparationsv and then on may 12 184513451345. 224OA began the overlandover land polportionIAionlondonalonaionA of the jourjourneynevenevoneye the nextne- t six months verewere spent traversing the four- teen hundred miles to texas they traveled through iowa v missouri kansas and the indian territoterritoryrytrys suff-sufferingering many hardships along the way six people diidaidieded of ffeverseverever and ague during the journey which caused a good deal of sorrow adlongamong c the members of the camp 225 upon arrival in texas a temporary camp was selected

222joumal222journal222journal history X 48 2231bidvbid IX 263 2 2 4hetnaneman halehaieha I1e smithsn1 th v p 8 burnal225journal225 ournalourjournalnalnai history X 475647 56 99 at an evacuated fort called georgetown and here Ilyrandwuanayrantuantwan andaridarld his rfollowersolloweihwelpos spent the winter the following spring on april 24 1841846 they moved south to a point on the colorado RIriververrvery about four miles above austin although they were considered to be religious novelties a meeting was called at the homehonre of smith- wick a local resident where many gathered to hear elder wight preach smithwick reported that his neighneighbors5orsborsoors

1 listened with respectrespect but afterward bontesontesome advocated ddrivingIv L ng this lavlawlesslawless band from the country since the wight colony was of sufficient number to help defend others from possible attacks by indians it was decided to let them stay until they broke the law 226

the colony consisted mainly of industrious peolipeopipeopleEA who constructed the firstf grist mill in the area the nighthightwight company also took a contract to build the first jail in austin as well as several houses in that city 2272 lyman was able to purchase one hundred sixty acres of land for a spanish pony sorchworthworch about ten dollars uhenwhenleelen a large spring cnon the land went dry lyman resold the land for three hundred head of cattle 228z

2260 h smithwick the evolution of a state austinsakstinsAustins Gagammelmimel book Compcompanyanys 1935 p 236 2271leman2271 lemaniemaneman hale smith p 11 223levi223jevi lamorilamoni wight0 reminiscencesremini s cen ces and letters taken ffromrom carrollN hormachea the mormon m2grcationmfgmag rationraulon to texas unpublished mashersmasters thesis trinity university san IZIO antonio texas 1956 POp 38 100

josiah Clifcliftontan a methodistmethod st minister 3nanin austinauat3t n relatrelatedtedned to C C booth an interinterestingesting descriptdescripidescriptionlonion of lymandymemymearlari and his visits to austin duldulingdurduringing thlthiss timeshirme nightwight was a vedyveryveny handhandsomesorne man over six feetfeek iniriirl height weighing more than two hundred pounds and having black hair and dark 0 he rode in a finelnefine french carriage drawn by two cobcoacoal1 black mules with a coachman dressed in black the harness cgi0si anon theCcliecile 1 mules were ornamented with bab3blacktck tassels and silver buckles and bells of mexican silver wight himself dressed in black broadcloth and highly polished boots and a black hat in fact he was by frontier standards of the time termed a odudetude not that anyone dared call him this to his face he was a real spectacle of a maliuanmarimarlman heavily armed vitvithwithwith two navy pistolspieapleaA 01 s in silverelivers iverlver mountedmoun ed holsters one on each hhipt P and ffinefincinelne ssilversliveriiverlver countemountemounted rrifleI1f in the boot in3nan his surrey or carriage he always1 hadad from two to six heavily armed and mounted riders or0 a personal body guards on each side of hishns carriagecarriages all on fine horses 229 sometime during the sumereumersummer a flood drstrayedstroyeddestroyedstroyedzoyed the company grist mill beingdg ing discouraged with the prospects for success in that area a committee consistconsistinglingdingming of spenzerspencerspenneranezal-er smith mecharrmechartmechamMe charrcharn curtis and william curtis was selected to findfind a new site where they could locate the committeeCORMlittee selected an area about four llesilesmilesm below freder- icksicksburgburg on the Perdiperdinalesnales river and within six weeksveersweers hedhad a grist mill in operation zodiaczodiacs the name selected for thrthethaahr new locationlocations was the most prosperous area in w1uwuuwhichch the wight colony lived 230 soon after his arrival at zodiac lynlymlyxnanan was joinejoinedd by george miller and a number of otherothear families that had

229229cv C booth IlLylymanillymazzimazzi wight in early texas huimprovementrovemen t era IVIILVII Janujanuaryarryacry 1954 27 230heznaneman hale smith p 12012 101 bebecomeame dissatisfiedN vithwithwrith ththeB leadership of brigham young

when the miller group arrived at zodiac they foundsound13 what appeared to be a very prosperous community there was a grist mill and saw mill both in operation wichuswighuswightts company also had a turning lathe blacksmith and wagon shop and comfortable homes george miller was furnished a house until he could build one although there was apparent prosperity miller reported that the wight company was in debt three thousand dollars to the inhabitants of austin overtures were made to miller to unite his belongings winnvithwith those of thethenthed colony although he denied having joined miller did allow them the use of his wagons and other property andaridarld gave them money as well 231oilois bishop miller soon became dissatisfied with limianfimianlyinan as he had with brigham youngyoungs and left to join jamas strang who claimed authority to replace joseph smith as headhraadnad of the church A number of millersMillerts followersfollowers however stayed with wights colony including his polygamist wife the 232 former mrs leyland and her son and three daughters 99M mrs leyland soon died and lamanlvmanlyman adopted her children later wights sons levi and loanloaniloamloamii married two of these girls 233george233 george miller correspondence special collections library brigham young university p 24 232william232William leyland journal is quoted in hemanhentanhenzan hale 1 smismi1smith9 h p 19 it is reported that miller forced mrs leyland a widow into this polygamist relationship in 1845 before leaving nauvoo he supposedly had mistreated this wife and her childrenchildrens giving them reason to remain at zodiac 102

george4 millerM1 ilerllerlier was not the only cnecueoneoue of this colony to live the principle of plural marriage 2333 according to a statement by gideon carter who lived in the home of orange wight lyman taughttaucfht that this doctrine0 was introducedintroducedproduced0 troduced by joseph smithsmithismitha he said that he saw and heard the reverevelationlaton estab-es ab lishing plural marriage before joseph smithes death I1 have heheardard lyman wight relate many times how joseph smith announced the revelation to his brother hyrum hyrum did not at first receive it with favor his whole nature revolted against it he said to joseph that if he attempted to introduce the practice of thatthai doctrinedocgoc rine as a tenant of the church it would break up the church and cost him his liflifeilfee neilkeilwellwells joseph replied fit11eitelt is a ronnyonn .9 1.1 commandment ffrom god 9 brother hyrum and if you dotdonldont believe it if Yyou0u will ask the lord heliefleyle will make it known to you t that revelation vaswaswae made knoknownm to some of the twelve before josspls3oszphis death and after it was read in our council weetingwithmeeting with some of the twelve josephJosesp1 bore testimony that it was of god andthatitand thatthae it was a principal csclsic wherein there was wisdomwisdoms truth and virtvirtuevirtuesbepuep and caiccapablecapcableabie of bringing great good to the worldworldsworldy but owing to the sinfulness of nienrignmennign and their weakness it would damn more than it would save 234 carter also stated that wight claimed authority framfrom joseph smith to pernpezopennperformpezofonnfonn plural marriages and while enroute to textexassv he exercised this authority by performing several such

c tt n ulantautamarriagesrrlag-i S rememberremerremenabers carter wrote that vinwinwhilele he and his company were stopping at prairie la crosse in9 the fall and winter of 1844451844 45s45 lyman wights son orange L wight who was the husband of my

233although233Although some claim briabriobrighamham young introduced plural marriage in 1852 after arriving in utah the fact that george miller a bishop in the church vaswas practicing it at this time and as will be shoshounshowntarn lyman wight also taught and practiced itsit would indicate otherwise 234 234statementstatement made to B H roberts by gideon calteacartercarteacartenr f february 27 1894 located atallalvasv the church fistorihistoriHihistoriansstoristorlans office 103 sister matilda married a plural tifewiferife a young lady to whom he had been engaged before loarryloarryingwtarryinging ntywiymy sister but with whom he had broken through solmesome misunderstanding I1 understandimdersiimmersi and that lyman ighfcighacwight performed the ceremony enroute for texas one joe miles married a plural wife and lyman wight himself before he arrivedarnived in texas also married a plural wifewit EN 19 and I1 remember distinctly that while living in texas he had three wives and I1 think he had four 2352 genealogical records indicate that lyman did have four wives his first plural wife was mary hawley who he married according to carter sometime during thetheatheb trip to texas she bore him two children the first being a girlgiri miamomentoMiamomento r born in 18481848i and the second was a scratscrvtson romaninRoRomaromanonromanonsmanonnonsnony bobbombornborbox n january 13p13 1851385138513.851 at Fredericsfredericksburgburg texas 236 there is also evidence of two additional wive-viveswivess in this polygamist relationship mary ann otis bore lyman three children carrinaCarrinarrinas rollandorollondoRol londo and a baby that diedatdied at birth margaret ballentine bore him one son john W born augusiaugust 818 1856 at banderabanderasBanderalderas texas 2372 when questions arose among his followers cancericoncericoncerningot ng this doctrine lyman published a pamphlet which contained what purported to be the revelation received by joseph smith gideon carter said that it contained many more rules to be observed by those entering into plural marriage than the

235ibid235 ibid oranorangesgets three wives were masmatildamatlidaildaiidalida and regillarogilla carter and sarah hatfield found in third generation genealogical recordrecordssv on film at brigham young universitvuniversity 236 anna judkins nightwightW 1 ahtght to church historians office january 13 1-logg0691969ogg in church Historianhistoriansts office in salt lake cilycitycitys 2371zibidbibid2371bidobidebido 104 velatrevelantrevelatrevelationre on found in the doctrine and covenants 2338S according to arterarhercarterccarterCz dissatisfdissatisfactiondissatisfyaction with the doctridoctoridoctrinelieilerie continued so lyirarlyman finallyrinrivZiVtailylally Vithwithwithdrewdrew itits clawingclaiming elatthatklat thethesthe11 world was too wicked to receive it however those who had already married plural wives retained their 239 spousespousessirstrsib while at zodiaczodiacs another of joseph smiths more unusual teaceteacwteachingsngs that of temple vorkvovkwo-workrk vaswas introduced chion february 17 1849 in the upstairs company storehouse a makeshiftmake shift temple was completed and it was here thalthat lyman

administered washings and anointanointingsings of his followfollowerserssersoeess s as 24024 well as performing baptisbaptismsnuis for the dead in october 1849 an interesting communique was

receivedreceivaiv& ffromronrom wiwilliam111 am smithsmith q joseph smsmithsth Is brother who had

been a member of the twelve apostles 9 but was excaituninriiexcommunicatedcater october 19 1845 it contained a purported revelation calling lantanlymanlyntan to the first presidency of a church thalthatthoat helleilefie was organizing behold I1 say unto you my servant lyman wight I1 am well pleased with his offerringoffering and he shall be savedsaved for he is mine saith the lord your god and his enerrienemies4 es shall not have power over him and theichelcheitheircheirr secret designs shall be hanifmanifestmanifestesk upon the housetopshouse tops 6.6 I1 give this commandment unto you my servant W smith and my servant isaac green sheenaSheesheensheenjnJ and my servant lyman wightwights thatthat you choose from among you twelve men yea chosen men

238238sttement238statementStatement of gideon carter to B RH robertrobertsrobertsssi february 27 1894 found at the church historians officsoffice2.2 2391239ibid2391bide239ibidbide 240heman240Hemaneman hale smith p 21 105

twelve apostles ullulifullfulif ofolf grace and truth and send th61them111 immediately among all the ervarclchurcheses bearing ray nnamnannameane and willw1 11 concerning the redemption ol01of zion let inymy servants 1 lyman wight whom I1 have applinappointedappoin 6.6 ed to stand with ny servant unaunnwmwra in the quorum of015017 the firstfinst presidency ofoltolf the churchchurchy send men chosen faithful and true 241 william leyland who reported this revelation specified that a conference vaswas called in november in zodiac where it vaswas decided that we receive VW smith as a heheadcnawnm to the church until young joseph can come fonfopforwardfonwardrard command and claim his station ttittis A vote was also tahenbatrenkatrenbalenkalen and carried that the revelation calling lyman to the first sidencyspresidencypre be aacceptedclepccepted 24224 2 however the history of the reorganized church of jesus christ of latter day saints indicates that this call by william smith was rejected 24343 at any rateratesraueracesracey theretherre is no indication thathatthae1cac linan ever functioned in the capacity to which williamWilliaralanalann had appointed him this could be because eilleliliwillwilliwilliamiara soon gave up thisthil s attempt to organize a church and many years later affiliated with the reorganized church while the wild ram of the mountains had been establishing himself in texas the majority of the twelve apostles were either in the great salt lake valley or in iowa on december 3 1848 they conducted a public meeting in salt lakelake citycihy where the hand of fellowship was

241ibid241 ibid appp 232423 24 242 ibidmbid 9 p 24 243hist2a243hlstojy ofpf feorgreorgreorganizedtn37ed church illiliIIIIIIsllly111 35350 106 wwithdrawnthdravii from lyman Wwightahtght andancianni george miller 244 february 12121 1849 a replacement for lyman in the quorum was approved and ordained it would appear that the disfellovshippingdisfellowsbipping of apostle wight did not takakeake place because he ventwent to texas but because of the attitude he manifested after he arrived there As early as october 1844 when conreconeeconferencerencerenca was held at nauvoo lyman was sustained in his position as an apostle even though brigham young spoke and cacalledlied himhinihint a coward for leaving9 nauvoo 245 then in april 1845 when conference was held by the church at nauvoo some questionqu stion was raised as to wights stand and heber C kimball spolespoke in hithis favors

e we should let himhirahina remain for the present probably hereaftere eafterafter there may be a time that he will hearken to counsel and do much croodgood whwhich1 ch he is capable of fforroror he is a noblenoblemindedminded man 246 following conference on april 17 1845 the telvebelvetwelveT met and wrote a letter to wight and his followers advising

244 244historyhistory of brigham younyoungg Ms s december 3pap3 1848 p 85 although smith in essentials in W churchr history p 694 states that lyman kightnightwightit was escomexcom municmuntcatedRFted thistiustins writer was finable to determine 1iff this was the case since all early records merely indicate disfellow shipping records do not go back that farsar0 and no one in the church historians office seemed to know whereohswhsn re this information could be obtained when orange eightwight came to utah he was baptizedrerebaptizerrebaptized which might indicate the company was excommunicated 245journal245journal history october 7 1844 246times246 nauNawnauvooroo illinois VI april 15 l85t1845 s 8758 7 107 them to 16etureturn to nauvoo and help complete the temple and receive their endowments bebe17before17 ore crociprociproceedingedingnedingn vestwest samuel bent was gigiven6 vrerj the letter and instructed to carcarrycareyry it to the 247 wight colony by this time holevehowevehoweverrrs173233 they had lefleftt wisconsin and were on their way to texas so it is possible that the letter never reached its destination at leaiealeastst by october conference the church leaders had no word from lyman and when his nartiename was presented for approval heber C kimball again spoke in hhiss behalfbehalfs we cannot tell what he is doingdoings he may in his own mind be acting in concert with the rest and he inaymay be acting fforsoror the good of this people it would be my mincminein3 13 c14 to let his case lay over for the present untiluntell we can learn something ffromrom him 248 this action was ananiunaniunanimouslyllously approved at april conference of 1848 held in iovalovaiowalovas bricpricpriabrighamham yoyoungyoungyoongungong spoke in behalf of wight being retained in the quorum lyman wight comes next thehe wild ram of the mountains I1 I1 dont know whether he is in the mountains or in the valleys but he has been from us a good while we feel yet to hold on to him we have faith to hold on and not give up on him we hope he will comeconzeconaecomae badbadrbady and do a good work he is wild but we feel to fellowship him and retain him in the quorum of the twelve flheor3 was for us the last time wewo heard from hinhim we give him our fellowship and remember him in our prayers if you feel as we do hold up your hands 24249bur six months later at october conferenceconferences the saints at salt lake reached thetine same conclusion to retain lyman

247brigham247brigham young to lyman wight april 17 1845 church Historianhistoriansts office times248times248Times and seasons nauvoo illinois VI novem- ber 1 1845tno1845.1845 1009 jou249journal249JournalJonmalmai history 1848 108

earnereammercammer hightkightwight as an apostle the sasaintsnsn s in iowa hovhowhowevereverso9 came to a different conclusion A sixteen page panpampamphletphiet printed by wight in april 1848 had come into their possession this palpaipamphlettiphlet contained an abridged history of the elcwiceightwight11it colony from 1844 until that time which lyman had taken from hisbis daily journal the pamphlet also contained lymas defensedefenstra of being in texas and numerous appeals for the saints inn the varivarlvarious0 ous branches of the church to join him in that place 250 this counsel was contrary to that of the rest of the Quorumne george millereadMillemillerhadmillerrhadhad apparently informedinfortqeA lyman thitthathwatkwat the rest of the twelvetwelve apostles had disfellowshipdisfellowshippeddisi7ellowshippedped him and replaced himhint in the quorum which was not true at the time Becbecausekausecause of this we find in the pamphlet a strong defensedefdedensen ofo-ojeae his position as an apostle he appealed to all who had heard his voice to bear record that he had been faithful 3inIV11 performingperfonming his duties lyman continued to refer to whomrwhomeverdveraveryver replaced him in the quorum as a long eared jackassjadhiass andarad said he would meet him at the judgment bar of god to defend his right 251 the saints iinn iowa did two things as a result of 91 this pamphlet first orson hyde wrote a leaflet to the branches of the church to answernightsanswer nightswightsNightswights claims and to counteract the advice of gathering to texas 252 then in october when lynaslymas name was presented as an apostle it vaswas

250lyrnan 616gig 251 13401.340 lyman wight appp 6166.166 16 251ibid25112511bidoibidbido 1 p 13 252journal252jonrnal252journal history august 1 1848 this letter iiss included in appendix B of this work 10109log9 rejected and fellowship vaswasWBR wwithdramc4thdra il george A s-smithinith and

m ezra T benson then wrothwrotrwrotei- brigham young wlwhoA was in the salt lake vallevalievailevalleyvaileyy a letter in duildulldtfensaeins ofcifcir the action ththey5 had taken 2532 apparently the receiptreceiptofreceiptor of this letter and also reports from men such as peter haveshawes and lucian woodworth that they had visited the wight colony in late october and c fodsodfound lyman was frequently drunkdrunks 254 motivated Brighbrighamcam young to take the action of withdrawing fellofeilofellowshfellowshipwsh lp fromfronafruna hirthim it is important to note that brigham young had instru&iinstructeded orson hyde who krasknaswas in the east to send messagemessages2.2ts to wight and ask him to join the saints in salt lake president young then took action against wight vithwithoutwithoulwithoulout waiting to hear from those messengers however chenvhenw1nen word was recreceivedeivend from preston thomas and william martirldamartindalele who visited lymanlayman on december 31 184818489 their report confirmed the action that had been takentakerikerl these ssionariesmissionariesmi cluotchuotquoteded lyman wight as saying that brigham young was a deliberatedelibedellberatesratey wilful31fulsw3 v1vailanousivanousvilanousvivillanouslanous fsxefoxesic and scoundrelly liar because he had called him a coward for leaving nauvoo wight reportedly claimed to be president of the quorum of the twelve by virtue of age and little joseph was the man to lead the churchchurda thomas and martindale said lyman would come to salt lake only at the call of father john smith 255

2531bid2531 bid october 7 184818480 2541bid2541bid october 2020920.9 1841843 25fbrigham255brigham255Brigham young march 14 1849 110 when wight learned that heheahez vaswas disfellowshipsfellowshippeddisfellowshippedd 4 ped heliekiekle wrote both wilford woodruff and brigham young to express his

l- feelings and to learn the nalnaturekueeure of the charges leveled against him to wilford woodruff he wrote can you tell merne why I1 vasutaswasuras cutcu4cua off from the church andnd such men as orson hyde W W phelps T B marsh received in have they ever asked joseph hyrumhynum smith sidney rigdon or myself to forgive them for writingwri tinghing letters to the governor and swearing againsagainst gisgiccsjjsdsic us with a view of swearing avayaway our lives W Ww7wa phelps said under oath that he was baptibaptizedsedzed to save his property one of Josephjosephsts in jail was if he irasinasvres taken away brigham young calcaicahoonlooneoon and oiothershers would cut me off frotsrolsrotfromi the churchc1nurch whether they had any accusation againstggainst me or not which I1 have lived to see ffulfilledulfi I1 led 2562 6 the letter to Brighbrighamairtairlarrl young was more detailed and therefore is included in an appendix of this work 257 in 1850 lyman became involved in localocal1 politics andcind ran as chief justice of gillespie county the records indicate that he was defeated by J J klingelhoeferKlingelhoefer but lyman contestedconieconicconteested the election on the grounds that klingel hoefhoeferer was not a cicitizentizen of the united states lyman vasincwass therefore appointed as chief judge after contention developed between the wight group at zodiac and the german settlers at fredericksburg lyman became so disgusted that CQ he quit functioning in this office and was replaced 258

256wilford256wilford woodruff letter 257see257gee appendixappendixa A 258dondon H biggersBiggerstgerat german pispioneerspigneersPigneers of texas fredericksburg texastemas i frefrederi csburgcksburgasburg pub3fshlngpub ashingushing company 1925j1925 appp 949594 95 illlillii early in 1851 the cacamptap at zodiac sufferedsufferedcered a severe disaster A flood on the pordinales river destroyed their mill and inundated1nundated the town theTIne burrs or millstones they had brought with them to texas were lost they had received a government contract to furnish corn to the men in the who were in texas to ightffight in the mexican war this would have beabaabeaibealbaalbeenbaeni a real opportunityopportunoppopportuneortunity fforor prosperity but the flood ruined their prospects fearingfearing disease lyman now moved his group to hamiltonharailtonts creek about eight miles belovelowbelovbelow bubetburnet aberewherewbere they put in another mill their burrs being lost they secured blocks of marble and manufactured new ones these burrs proved to be unsatisfactory so lyman decided to return to zodiac and try to locate the old anesones after many days olof01 searching without successsuccessy the following is reported to have occuroccurredoccurredsreds old lyman wight the high priest set about the task of recovering the lost stones after wrestling alone 4 4 with the4 he spspiritsrits for some littlittleie tiraetitiietitine he arose one morning with joy in his heart and summoned his people announced to therathemthernchemchera that helielleile had hadhaidheid a revelation and bidding theithettheiathetathemtheina take spades and crowbars and follow him set out to locate the millstones straight ahead he bore as one in a dream his divining rod in his hand his awestruck disciples following in silence pausing at last in the middle of the sand bar deposited by the flood he struck his rod down tdigfdigtaig right here t he commanded his followers never doubting set to work and upon removing a few feet of sand lo10 and behold theres were revealed the buried millstones wight said heh saw them in a and his followers believed it 2559

259stt1thsmithwickak1klckick appp 299300299 300 112

in addition to their mill a shop to ntmanufactureA furniture was also constconstructedructedducted theirth 1 Ir chairs tables and bed sheads were used throughout ththee country 260 by 185318531 the small colony was on the move again having sold their possessions on hamiltonHamilhamiltontstonts creek to noah smithwick for five thousand dollars A record of their movements through llano mason Gillgillespieespietespley kerr and bandera counties was kept by spencer smithsmiths lymants soninlawsohson inirlint lavlaw 26161 they finally settled at a point on ththee medina river twelve miles below the town ofofe anderabanderaB they called the new colrdnunitycoirimunity mountainmouni1 alnain valley and remained at thisthasthds location untilu atilltil 185818580 through these years of constant moving a lalargerge number of wights followers became dissatisdissatisfied11171 ed and left the main group lymans oldest son orange was in this numbernunbcrumber he remained in texas but not aspartas part of ththea colony 26226 2 the greatest problem of the colony while at antoinmoantoinmo valley was the indians in a letter to the governor iyiymanlymanlymanman outlined the extent of the damages caused by the indians and its effect on the colony over a five year period their losses had totaled six thousand dollars and included horses mules oxen a circularcircucincular saw a turningfuming lathe and the destruction of theirtl el r crops this letter was to seek redress

260itid2601bid2601 bid 261heinan261hernanHeinaneman hale smith appp 273227 32 2620ranqerange L wight to josejosephjosephPh itI1 earl may 4 1903 typed copy in possession of writer 113 ffromsromronn the1 he government fforor s Liwiancwianlanianiianii sasaidsaldI1 d t in case of no

vej 0 I1 redress vetwetwel willv 11 be obliged tok clsacrificetecreccacrifice our litalit4littleJ e homes and go to some other place w232f5 3 in march 1858 lyman claimed a vision which indicated the xxartaraarar between the north and south was soon to comicommencerencenence so the decisbecisdecisionlonion was made to move the colony north 226464 at least one of his groupgroups his son levi rebelled and was not going to go but reconsidered in light of his fathers age 26500 on the second day of the journey at dexter about eight miles from san antonantonioioslos lyman suddenly died his body was carried back to zodiac and buriedburled in the old burying ground there at his death the galveston news commented as followfollowstst we believe we have emittedomitted to notice ththe death of mr lyman wight who for some thirteen years past hash s been the leader of a smallsmail and independent Mormormoninnon settle- ment in texas ksAs far as we have been able to learnlearns these Mornmormonslonsionstons have proved themselves to be most excellentexCeL leant citizens of our slatestateshahestatesstakes and we are no doubt greatly indebted to the deceased leader for the orderly cotcoyconductliductladuct sobriety industry and enterprise of his colony mr wight first canlecantecamlecame to texas in november 1845 and has been with his colony on our eitremextrem isacsxclc frontier ever since moving still farther vestwest as settlements formedgormed around himhints thus always being the pioneering of advanc- ing civilization affording protection against the indians he has been the first to settle ivelvefivef new counticountiesessesp and prepare the way for others he aashasxas at different times built three extensive lstawsawaw andanan& grist vimiltsrmiltor eefeeebbeebbofeebhebho 262666

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route of nightwight colony in tetexasae7e as 115 WithnithhithwithIs lymarjslyintansLymarjs death a part of the colony continued horhorthnorthnor kth and finally settled in 1861 in the northwest cobercomer of shelby colucountyity iowa in a colconsnunityvnw lity called ballandsgallandsGalgaigallcgalacendsxndslands grove according to officialsofficiate of the reorganized churchchurchy most of these people later joined0 0 their faith 267 the remainder of the colony stayed in texas and later three 0of these families ventwent to under the leadership of noah smithwicsmithwickkv although he was not a member of the 03originaljginaf colony 268 As for lyman eightElighwightelightostostvss own children we will follow each of theinthem separately the oldest son orange remained in tekastetexasas for a time and foughtfought in the civicivil1 war fforor the confederateconfederatefederate amarmyy later he wcventwentwit to nebraska to take care of hisillslilsliis othermotherrn and afafterto-r herheir death moved to utah 269 orange died in kervillebunkervilleBun nevadanevadar in 194139413.941 as a faithful member of the churchchurchy bu-butl apparently neglected to teach his older children the principles of the gospel for a son john was converted in wyoming and did not know of his fathers connections with the church until after being baptized 270 gideon carter who grew up in orangeorangess home never joined the church 271

267heman267Heman hale smith ppe 49490 26e3ibidibid p 49 269269ibid269jbidIbid p 50 270raymond270ORaymondRaymond wight to the february 24s24 1941 church Historianhistoriansts office batement271statenn271Statenntattatementementtenttenh made to B H roberts by gideon cartercarters february 27 1894 located at church historiansRistoriantsanys office 116 anna C wight lymants oldest daughter married spencespencer smith endanda-elidlid when her father died moved to nebraska where she and her husband associated with the reorganisedreorganized churchurchch 27227 2 two of theitheltheirr chchildren13 dren bbecamej came veveryry prominentproirolainant iinn the reorganized church hyrum 0 smith held the office of a president of Sevenseventytylhys 27327 and heman c9caC who married alexander hale smiths daughter vida E on june 2 1886 anddaughtergranddaughtergir of joseph smithsmiths became an apostle and a historian for the reorganized church 27427 rosina minerva married john millermillers february 6 1844 at black river falls wisconsin she died at fredericksburg texas in 1850 275 the fourth child lyman lehi fought for the south- ern army in the civil war and then moved to missouri and joined the reorganized church in 1865 lymanlynnlan lehi didiedd september 8 1895 at ridgeway missouri0 276 levi lamentlannonlamontlamonii also stayed in texas and fought for the south little is known of his church affiliataffiliateaffiliationslonslans 277 the youngest child of lymans first wife loami fought for the confederates and later settled in banderabanderas texas 278

272hernan272hemanhennanHernan hale smithalthynithybithyS-L ppe 50 273histhistoryor of the beorreorreorganizedranizaranized churchcharchochurcho Vvp 498493 2741bidoobid ppe 402 ieman2751127511ermanlemanerman hale smith p 50

V .9 276hstoryitorothqI1 of the keoreoreoyoreoyg ei zed church 9 58058 277heman277heman hale smithsmithssnsmithpitheithp p 51 SIbido27sibido27 ibid 117 of the remaining sixsim childrenchildchildrentrenthenymeny all born to440 o plural mary viveswives 9 little could be learned romandonRoromanonmanon the son of havleyhawley was adopted by mary ann jenkins whenwren his mother died romandonromanon moved to iowalowaloylottaloytata became a membermertiberciber of the reorganized church and seiservedser ved as one of the seven presidents of seventy fronfrom 1902 to 1909 279 the only child of lyman and margaret ballentine john W wight was ordained an apostle in the reorganized church and served much of his time trying to convert utah Morcormonsmormonsmons 2802 it appears that a large number of wights in the church of jesus christ of latterlatterdayday saints today descend from lymans son orange and his nephews that joined the church stephen and ephraim were sons of lymants brother Q 1I daniel and lewis was a son of his brother william 281 the only one of lymanlymants fatherssathersfatsatsahtiersliers family that joined the church was apparently a sister sarah followed him to texas where she remained and became affiliated with the reorganizede church 2822

279journal279journal of Histhistoryorysoryo X 479 28history280history28028 History0 of the reorganizedreorganizedchurchchurch V 58 28ithirdthird generation genealogical sheets brigham young universityI1 282williantilliam ward wightwights p 71071 CHAPTERchaaCHIAlipTER XIxitXIII1

SUMMARY AND conclusions

the history of lyman wight cannot be studskudstudedstudieded without gaining an appreciation for the man and his many contribu- tions to the church of jesus christ of latterlatterdayday saintssaintsinks fronfrom the time he joined the church in 1831 until his death in 1858 lamanislymanslymanis efforts were practically all devoted to bulbudbuildingbulidingiding gods kingdom on earth and bringing people to a knowledge of the truths that he1 espoused soon after join- ing the church wight was told to be a missionary and preach the gospel it appears that every effort was made tote carry out that responsibility much has been written ofoffofe the missionary success of men such as wilford woodruff and parley P pratt but little credit has been given to this missionary lyman wight for the many convelconvertsts he b-broughtought into the church his colonization of texas was probably designed to fulfill what he considered as a missionary call from the prophet joseph smith an excerpt frofromfroinfroenin a letter written in texas immediately prior to his death in 18581856 indicates lymanshymanslymanes attitude at the timetirrie no doubt you will thlthinknk we are well situsituatedaCed and so we are temporarily but want to see the lamanitesliamaniiesiamaLamanites amecome to the knoknowledgeledaledge of the truth who have been in darkness for fourteen hundred years and see the millennlmillennamillenmillenniumnl setSE s in that will bring kindred spirits together again to reign with christ on earth a thousand yeyearsdars this is what I1 have been striving for for over twentyfivetventysventytwenty five yearsyeeyez r 118 119 and I1 am in nothing discouraged I1 calculatecalcalate to continue till I1 lose the horsehor e cor wnvinwin the saddle therethere iss I nothing I1 more desire thnthnanethnan to rireeaireemeetmeehL aliallail myrayrnynay ffriends and kindred spiritssp1tritts in thatth it glorious morningmtorningmoorningmtorning rrhenrohenvrhen christ our sainsainess hohomeuieuletie to peace savior shall call all his sainssaints 283live in on this earth one thouthousandaiidfidkid jeaayeaayearss 0 the courage and devotion of lyman as he stood up in defense of joseph smith and the saints while in missouri is commendable wight was ready and willing to give his lifeiiseilse if necessary in their defensedefenselensek this devotion and loyalty was detected by joseph smith for lyman wight was called to the apostleship in 1841 where he was given even greater opportunity to be a special witness of jesus christ and the divine call of the Propheprophetbt another contribution of apostle wight was a journal which contained an account of dailydallydaliydcatllytily events that transpirestranspiredtranspireu in his liflifeilfee since he was co closely associated with josephjosjoeephph smith and the early affairs of the churchchurcln this journaljouniallallai contains a valuable history although the journal itself is not available its contents were used by wight in a numbernluiiber of summaries of the history of the saints 2842 one such summary was ggivenaenvenqen at a trial of joseph smith held in 1843 these accounts are not presented vithwithurithwrith the objectivity of a modern day historian because of his being so closely associated with these events making it difficult for him to

cormac283hormachea283 hormacHormacheaHormachea p 100 284thisthis journal was once in the possession of the reorganized church but was apparently lostlosh according to correspondcorrespondenceen ce with richard P howHovhowardrardnard reorganized church historianHistoriant february 17 1969 120 present a comprehensive view ofoc the eveneventsevenss which hehrzarz WLwit-t nessed

there are alsoaiso several contributionscontriktut1 utioris10113 made by the wight colony to texas they elpedhelped11elded open and settle five

1 counticcountcounticees1 st llano 9 travis banderabanderasBanderalderas burnetbumety and gillesgillespie1ieilelleaie the colony also seizedserved as a bufferburrer against the indians in the areas where they lived wights company helped the growth of industry in this new territory by intreducingroducingintroducingroducing milling in their locality for the first time prior to their cominb corn had been ground by hand the manufactur- ing of furniture also helped to add to the industry of the state if communication had been bettelbetter perhaps lyman wight and the rest of the quorum of twelve could have been reconciled it alpeeappeeappearsars that the best of men if left to themselvesthemselves can stray ffromrom the truth lyman had been vavarnedwarnednted in his patriarchal blessing to beware of pride and this seems to havenavewave been a cause of his straying perhaps if he had been more willing to humble himself andanid accept counselcourns el his contributcontricontributecontributionsbut L ons could have been enhanced A fitting conclusion to the life of lyman wight might be the following conversallconconversationversalllonion between raymond wightwiglntwigant lymants grandson and a patriarch in big horn stake4 Wyowyomingmingsmingy as reported by Raymondraymondsts viwifefe aetnaannataxtna my husband and I1 ventweatwent to him for patriarchal blessings in 1928 was afterarterartear the blessings were given and he was tellingitus some of these very spiritual experiencetexperiencesexperienceds when he stopped suddenly then after a few moments of0r 121 deep meditations he saidsald 1 I see your grandfathergrandfathers lyman wight in the pirspirSspirit worlworldid preachingpreaclang to the souls there and converting them to chrchrist3 st nharhathatthabt he vaswas sorry fforor the sins heh hhadhagd mademada imdand was workingworlding diligently preparing sousoulsAs for raymond my husband I1 265 to labor in the templetempieL forfoafonsoa

285jq285anna wight to church historiansavsals office january 13 1969 historia I1 bibliographyBTA rj 1 ogtarhl

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letter to brighbrighamciciti-wiliwilazi youngyoungs march 2 1857 LDS church Historianhistoriansts 0eaeofficeficetbicet salt lake city utah letter to wilford woodruff august 24v24 185718574 LDS church 11istohistorian16 lanisianis office salt lacelake city utah wight orengeorangel122 to joseph I1 earleari may 4 1903 0 letter earlszaris typed copy in possesspossesqpossessionsion of writer wightwights raymond to news february 24 1941 letter0 deseret LDS church historians office salt lake city utah young Bribrighamghan MSS11mss history of brighatbrighamnti young 11 decambdecampdecembernr 3 1848 LDS church historianhistorians office 9 salt lake city utah letter to lyman wight april 17 1845 LDS church historianhistorians offofficeice salt lake citycihyciby utah

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1 highlnightwighl danforthDanforti phialphiplphippsysl131 the iiiviivilwighthlt bobostons17 tonbon T R 0 famila Marvamarvinnv 1848 wight william ward the eightswights milwaukeemilvaukees sainsuainswain and tatetauetatestabestaueg 189018906 APPENDIX A

LETTER TO BRIGHAM YOUNG

I1 have also learned by some private comminicommuniconupuni catianscarianscationscanions that you have disfellowshipdisfellovshipeddisfellowshipeded me and the company with me we have great anxiety to kknowknownov what we are disfellowshipdisfellowshipeded from we are truly at a loss to know whether we are disfellowshipdisfellowshipeded as citizens under your gubernatorialgubematorialshipgubernatorialshipship or whether you act in btbehalf1 halfhalshais of brother joseph and have disfellowshipdisfellowshipeded us to his satisfaction or vrnethevenethewhethertr it was becaubebaubecausee we did not immediately relinquish that mission and go with you to salt lake valley now sir if is a crime for me to contecomtecome to texas asac it 1 one of the lvelvetwelvekvelve apostles upunderder tthehe directiondirecdiorec 4lonion of joseph smith instead of going tosalttosoltto saltsait lake valley you had ought to beware how you send out men from that region of country into danyanycany other country to build up churches for I1 protest unto you and all men ivingIliving1 upon the foctootfootrootyoot stool of god that I1 have not taught as much as one word contrary to the doctrindoctrinecz of jesus christ as held forth bebrotherbybrotherby brother joseph swithsmithsznU th duringdu A ing 1 his whole life and sir as I1 haveavemve neither spoken evilev 1 l of you nor of no other man who has troveistrovetrovexsstroven to live to the commandments of god nor have ibeenabeenI1 been guiltygulity of any misde- meanor whatever as you have heard by flying reports I1 shall make use of great plainness in the first placeplacey you have disfellowshineddisfellowshipdisfellowshipeded us without the least shadow of evievlevidencede ic-e tficoficthat11tat we were guigulguilty1 ty ofor any misdemeanormi saemean0 whatever I1 askasicasig alaaloaiodidgid notnoznoenou the twelve unanimously give me the right hand of fellowship just previous to my start for this place and I1 again askasksasky did they ever notify me that they thought it would be better to relinquish it since that day and did you not state to me sir that you would have to speak a little against my going for fear the whole church to a man would turn out I1 cravenavegave you that privilegevilegepilege withoutw1wa thoutphout reluctance nri 1 ari 1 believing you to be an honest man but very much to0 o my astonishment I1 saw recorded in the times and seasonseasons that you stated that I1 was a covardcoward and ran away fforsoror fearfsearear of fighting and many other slanderous reports with expressions so sarcastic that should you and I1 meet before a prolprodproperterver public I1 should give you a fair opportunity to prove the truth or falsity of your words you will finasinasinkfindsind sirirs tiiattinatthat I1 havhavee produced pointed testimony as published by your ownself to show fact wh-whereasereas you have only had flying reports concerning me by men who 11 chose to6 0 o carry a boneone both watsays&aysevways for instance haws and noodhoodwoodwoodwcrfchvierthvicrth men in whom you say you can plapiaplacem confidenceconfidences and 125 126 if you cdcann place confidenceconfconsidenieidence in them then why nof- i and what did they says ay before fifty vitwitwitnessesnesses in this place they stated that it auldouldouidculdrould take lentenhen yobeyo3eyoleer of oxen to draw alcohol over the mountainsmolmmolm tainsbainsdainsdaine to treep brother ichardsrichardsrR drinking one year and that it cost more to support brigham young alone than it did any orieorleonieone hundred men in the church LYMANLYMKN nightWIGHTWI1 GHT march 2 1857 APPENDIX B

LEAFLET BY oraonORSONORZON IMEHYDE

beloved brethren and Friendfriendstpriendsist after so long a time we have heard from elder lyman wight 9 and have learned his whereabouts he is in texas and I1 think on one of the tributaries of the colorado river about seventyfiveseventy five miles from the city of austin he has addressed a pamphlet of sixteen pages to the latterlatterdayday saints scattered abroad and to everybody else containicontadiniconcontainingtaining his appeals to thetherticherti and the cogitation of his auntountowni mind if the lord has inspired iuhimnt to write his appealappealsappeappoairaisals it would have been received with respect and cordiality butbuabu4buh would seem his inspiration camecarnecanne fromn no higher source it that i1 fro than george miller he speaks much about being put out of his place and someone else called to fill if histhis4 had f it been contemplacontemplocontemplatededsedg and even carried into eleffectffectp the council of the church would not havenave gone beyond their power andaridazid right if they had thought necessary to be donedones but to reproach the person supposeditto occupy his place with the appellation of a long eared jackjaek ass is but to reproach the council by whom he was appointed if appointed at allalielia11a 11 the spirit of alienation and jealousy is too apparent in his writhwritingsngs no person has been suggested to fill his place to my knowledge and if he had been dictated by the spirit of the lord he would have written a confidential letter to the councicouncilI1 of his brethren ip and enquired into all tltheselese mattersmatmacterss beforebelnorebeirbelrbein ore venturing to throw out such a volley of most extravagant and uncalled for language as his pamphletparnphietphieu co- ntains but seems that he has taken bishop miller for hisWs prompter it if botherbrotherbrocher wight had been anxious to keep up a friendly intercourse and correspondence with the church and Councicouncillt and maintain a permanent union and alliance with them as he now is to sow the seeds of dissectiondisdissentionsention by scat- tering his pamphlets among the outer branches of the church could he not long ago sent a messenger to hunt us up q as well as to send one now to distribute his pamphlets the products of his own misguided zeal breathing manifestly the spirit of separation from the church and council if we were broken up and gone ffromrom nauvoo we were not gone out of the world the very spirit of his apology for not writing to ussus clearly shows that he lacked more the inclination to write than the opportunity of sending a letter this is in accordance with some expressions of his concerning his desire to be accounted as one of the twelve on his leaving nauvoo it may be properpro ersera erq at some time to nonotete theltthemri 127 128 he appealsaprea Is to those of likeilke10ikerke ordination vithwithviivil th himself to know if they have any power or authorityau hority given them to remove him fronfromfront his station for one I1 can say that I1 have been ordained to all the power and authorauthoritylityrity that drothebrothebrotherdrotherr wight ever was and I1T can infinsinformorm him that he is not yet so high that the voice of the council cannot reachreach him and bring himhinthink down and cvevencvenrn put another in his place if they deem it necessary a 6 why does brother nianienightwighthtteatteteachach and enforce a doctrine that joseph smith never did nor ever would sanction namely a community of goods or property throtnthrothroantlirownTn in together as common stock though this doctrine has som- etimes been practiced by good men the original purpose and design of god was to make men accountable foforroryorr their steward- shipc with regard to keys and priesthood otherbrotherbir wight is lustfustfushjustlush as lame as he is about the power not exiexlexistinoexistingstino to displace him andend one day it will meet him in thethel face it is said not to be the nature of the wild ranram of the mountains to herd in the domestic foldfoidfolds and if it doesdoeedocoeedoeyeE riotnot yet appear that joseph smith gave to lyman wight his great mission with a similar motive to that with which thethcjhc lord gave a saul to israel I1 will confess my mistake the churches are exertedexorted to continue their emigra- tion and in the discharge of their various duties as counsellercounselledcowiselledcoun selled and directed in the late general epistle of the twelveINeivetelvetelves and pay no tentionattentionaihention to brother wights call until it is sanctioned by the first presidency ofor the churchChuCch atr1ra t salt lake city and also by the quorum of thetiletlle twelvetwe lve apostles brother wight may collect around him the wholewhoie phalanx of wild disaffected aandlidtidkid independent spirits evemguenguem from the pagan prophet down to the brewster seersaeespeero ll11t but these combustible materialsmaterialsais gathered together render explosion more cercertainCain and its consequence more destrutcdestructiveC I1 none of us is at war with brother wights mission butbui vithvihlwithI his boasting and defying spirit a s 0 le 0