175 years ago today - Jun 18, 1838

Hyrum and Uncle John Smith, Sampson Avard, and 83 other Mormons sign an ultimatum directed at Oliver Cowdery, David and John Whitmer, Lyman E. Johnson, and William W. Phelps, warning them to leave the county immediately lest a "fatal calamity shall befall you."

[Source: Kenney, Scott, Saints Without Halos, "Mormon History 1830-1844," http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml]

2 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 18, 2013

    Clicking on this link results in: "could not find the server."

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  2. That is too bad. Scott Kenny had assembled some very useful church history data. Perhaps it is still available at archive.org, or other internet-archiving sites.

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