[Apostle George Albert Smith Journal] he departs SLC for Palmyra, New York, to investigate the possibility of purchasing the Hill Cumorah
[Source: Journals of George Albert Smith]
185 years ago today - May 31, 1827
[General] Lemuel Durfee, landlord to the Smith family, writes in his account book: "Joseph [Sr.] and Hiram Smith Dr [debit] to three barrels of Cider at 9/ per barrel May the Last 1827 [9 shillings per barrel]"
[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
90 years ago today - May 31, 1922
Was in conference with the [First] Presidency for some time on Temple matters. Completed the rules and decisions for guidance of Temple Presidents and some changes in the ordinances. This is the fruition of a labor of months as I was able to devote myself to it. This is one of the accomplishments of my administration as Temple President of which I am greatly thankful and pleased. These rules and decisions have been gleaned from a number of books, manuscripts, and loose sheets[,] and obsolete rulings have been eliminated and new rulings have been made & approved by the First Presidency. Copies of these decisions will be made and every Temple President will be supplied with a copy. The ordinances are all being rewritten and a copy will be furnished each temple. This should be the means of getting uniformity in all the temples. [George F. Richards diary, May 31, 1922]
[Source: Anderson, Devery; The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, http://amzn.to/TempleWorship]
[Source: Anderson, Devery; The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, http://amzn.to/TempleWorship]
170 years ago today - May 30, 1842
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 30th I was Baptized under the hands of G. A. Smith for my Great Grand father Thompson & my Great Grand Mother Thompson Also for My Grand Father Lot Thompson & my Grand Mother Anna Thompsons.
I Baptized Phebe W Woodruff for her uncle John Fabyan Aunt Sally Fabyan Uncle George Fabyan Uncle Joseph Fabyan. I also Baptized Br John Benbow for six of his dead kindred Also Sister Jane Benbow for six of her dead friends.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
I Baptized Phebe W Woodruff for her uncle John Fabyan Aunt Sally Fabyan Uncle George Fabyan Uncle Joseph Fabyan. I also Baptized Br John Benbow for six of his dead kindred Also Sister Jane Benbow for six of her dead friends.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
150 years ago today - May 30, 1862
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 30 My Mules Head was badly swollen this morning. I baithod it in a strong decotion of wild sage & drenched the animal with sweet milk. I left him and drove home to the City. 24 miles.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
150 years ago today - May 30, 1862
[Morrisites] Morris received additional revelations indicating that Christ would come and deliver his followers just a few days after a spectacular pageant called "The Foreshadowing of the Kingdom of God Day," which was scheduled for 30 May 1862. Therefore Joseph Morris saw the appearance of the army in the middle of June as a certain sign that the time of the Second Coming was imminent.
[Source: Utah History Encyclopedia: Morrisites, http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/m/MORRISITES.html]
[Source: Utah History Encyclopedia: Morrisites, http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/m/MORRISITES.html]
155 years ago today - May 30, 1857
[Brigham Young Letter] Bro. Geo. Taylor & others, New York, -- To us, it appears, as if the powers of darkness -- "All Hell" and their accomplices among men have just begun again to wake up out of their dreamy sleep about the Mormons. about the time that we set about examining ourselves, and awaking to a sense of our obligations to our God, Covenants & one another -- making arrangements for progressing with another Temple or House of God, and they have razed increasingly over since, yes till they boil over. what of it? Good will no doubt result. ...
[Source: Letters of Brigham Young--Excerpts, 1856-1866, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
[Source: Letters of Brigham Young--Excerpts, 1856-1866, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
100 years ago today - May 30, 1912; Thursday
[General] The following is a report of the regular meeting of the First Presidency and the council of Twelve held this morning at 10:30 at the Temple:...
Brother Richards said that since writing his last letter reporting his attendance at conference, &c., in the Central States Mission, he attended conference at St. Joseph, Missouri, a week ago last Saturday and Sunday. Last Saturday and Sunday he attended missionary conference at St. Louis [Missouri]. He visited Richmond cemetery, also Liberty, Far West, Haun's Mill and Adam-ondi-Ahman [Missouri]. Referring to Haun's Mill, Bro[ther]. Richards said all the landmarks are about obliterated. He met there an old lady named McClellan, about eight years of age, who remembered distinctly when the well (in which the bodies of our people massacred there were buried, which is now filled up and covered over) was open. She also remembers a woman who used to visit the place annually who said she had a son buried there. The place was pointed out by Mrs. McClellan where the well was supposed to have been located. Nothing is left to show where the blacksmith's shop where nineteen of our people were shot, was located. Brother Richards thought it would be a good thing for the Church to secure a portion of that land, covering the blacksmith shop and the well and erect there some kind of mason work on which to erect at some time in the future a monument. He thought this ought to be done before all trace of the historic landmarks vanish. ...
[Source: First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve minutes]
Brother Richards said that since writing his last letter reporting his attendance at conference, &c., in the Central States Mission, he attended conference at St. Joseph, Missouri, a week ago last Saturday and Sunday. Last Saturday and Sunday he attended missionary conference at St. Louis [Missouri]. He visited Richmond cemetery, also Liberty, Far West, Haun's Mill and Adam-ondi-Ahman [Missouri]. Referring to Haun's Mill, Bro[ther]. Richards said all the landmarks are about obliterated. He met there an old lady named McClellan, about eight years of age, who remembered distinctly when the well (in which the bodies of our people massacred there were buried, which is now filled up and covered over) was open. She also remembers a woman who used to visit the place annually who said she had a son buried there. The place was pointed out by Mrs. McClellan where the well was supposed to have been located. Nothing is left to show where the blacksmith's shop where nineteen of our people were shot, was located. Brother Richards thought it would be a good thing for the Church to secure a portion of that land, covering the blacksmith shop and the well and erect there some kind of mason work on which to erect at some time in the future a monument. He thought this ought to be done before all trace of the historic landmarks vanish. ...
[Source: First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve minutes]
175 years ago today - May 29, 1837
[General] Apostles Orson Pratt and Lyman E. Johnson accuse Joseph Smith of lying, financial fraud, and extortion. The Kirtland High council receives formal accusations against counselors Sidney Rigdon and Frederick G. Williams, apostles Parley P. Pratt and Lyman E. Johnson, Smith's private secretary Warren Parrish and BOOK OF MORMON witness David Whitmer. The accused challenge the authority of the council to try them and charge bias. The council "then dispersed in confusion." This is the beginning of an apostasy which would overwhelm church headquarters and causes its abandonment by Joseph Smith seven months later.
[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
5 years ago today - May 29, 2007
At the 177th Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints held on 31st March, 2007 Sister Julie Bangerter Beck was released as a counsellor in the Young Women general presidency and sustained as the new general president of the Relief Society.
[Source: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, United Kingdom, "On This Day," https://www.lds.org.uk/show_oda.php]
[Source: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, United Kingdom, "On This Day," https://www.lds.org.uk/show_oda.php]
180 years ago today - May 29, 1832
Edward Partridge: Dedicated office of Evening and Morning Star 29 May 1832.
[Source: Cook, Lyndon W., The Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith: A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants, Seventy's Mission Bookstore, Provo UT, 1985, http://amzn.to/RevelationsofJosephSmith]
[Source: Cook, Lyndon W., The Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith: A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants, Seventy's Mission Bookstore, Provo UT, 1985, http://amzn.to/RevelationsofJosephSmith]
5 years ago today - Late May 2007
[Joseph Smith Papers project] Family and Church History Department employees deliver papers in a Mormon History Association conference session entitled "The Joseph Smith Papers: Dealing with Joseph Smith Documents." The papers:
"Document Collection and Organization in an Electronic Control File"
Sharalyn Howcroft, Family and Church History Department, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
"Utilizing Technology"
Jeffrey G. Cannon, Family and Church History Department, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
"Document Selection and Transcription Methods"
Robin Scott Jensen, Family and Church History Department, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
"Editing and Contextualizing Documents"
Kay Darowski, Family and Church History Department, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
[Source: Joseph Smith Papers Timeline: History of the Joseph Smith Papers Project, MormonWasp Blog (defunct)]
"Document Collection and Organization in an Electronic Control File"
Sharalyn Howcroft, Family and Church History Department, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
"Utilizing Technology"
Jeffrey G. Cannon, Family and Church History Department, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
"Document Selection and Transcription Methods"
Robin Scott Jensen, Family and Church History Department, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
"Editing and Contextualizing Documents"
Kay Darowski, Family and Church History Department, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
[Source: Joseph Smith Papers Timeline: History of the Joseph Smith Papers Project, MormonWasp Blog (defunct)]
170 years ago today - May 28, 1842
[Joseph Smith] An anonymous contributor to The Wasp, a pro-Mormon newspaper in Nauvoo, writes that, "Boggs is undoubtedly killed according to report; but who did the noble deed remains to be found out."
[Source: Wikipedia, Joseph Smith Chronology, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_Joseph_Smith,_Jr.]
[Source: Wikipedia, Joseph Smith Chronology, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_Joseph_Smith,_Jr.]
70 years ago today - May 28, 1942
[General] In Germany seventeen-year-old Helmuth Huebener is charged with conspiracy to commit high treason and is sentenced to death. His crime consisted of printing anti-Nazi pamphlets. Since he printed many of them on the local branch mimeograph machine he was also excommunicated by his branch president. He was beheaded on Oct 27. The First Presidency later overturned the excommunication.
[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
170 years ago today - May 27, 1842
Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph Smith stayed at home and took medicine for a bilious attack.
[Source: BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith, http://byustudies.byu.edu]
[Source: BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith, http://byustudies.byu.edu]
175 years ago today - May 27, 1837
[Lucy Mack Smith] Parley P. Pratt, greatly disillusioned by economic problems, writes a harshly critical letter to Joseph Smith for which he later apologizes.
[Source: Anderson, Lavina Fielding, Editor, Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, 2001, Signature Books, http://bit.ly/lucys-book]
[Source: Anderson, Lavina Fielding, Editor, Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, 2001, Signature Books, http://bit.ly/lucys-book]
25 years ago today - May 27, 1987
[Mark Hofmann] Interviews conducted with Hofmann in prison.
[Source: Whittaker, David J., The Hofmann Maze, A Book Review Essay with a Chronology and Bibliography of the Hofmann Case, BYU Studies Vol. 29, No. 1, pg.80,]
[Source: Whittaker, David J., The Hofmann Maze, A Book Review Essay with a Chronology and Bibliography of the Hofmann Case, BYU Studies Vol. 29, No. 1, pg.80,]
140 years ago today - May 26, 1872
[General] Brigham Young preaches: "Do you want wealth? If you do, do not be in a hurry. Do you want the riches pertaining to this world? Yes, we acknowledge we do. Then, be calm, contented, composed; keep your pulses correct, do not let them get up to a hundred and twenty, but keep them as nigh as you can, ranging from seventy to seventy-six, . . ."
[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
120 years ago today - May 26, 1892
[General] Journal of Abraham H. Cannon, Vol 16:119; May 26, 1892.
At two o'clock I was at my Quorum meeting where were present all the Presidency and myself, as also Bro. Lyman; Geo. Gibbs, clerk. Bro. Jos. F. Smith was mouth in prayer. Thereafter some conversation followed as to whether Adam is our God or not. There are some in the Church who do not accept of the statement of Pres. Young that such is the case, but to me it seems reasonable to think that Adam has at least much to do with our present condition, and will control greatly our future destiny.
[Source: Quotations Dealing with the Relationship of Our First Earthy Parents to Our Heavenly Parents (1830-1978)]
At two o'clock I was at my Quorum meeting where were present all the Presidency and myself, as also Bro. Lyman; Geo. Gibbs, clerk. Bro. Jos. F. Smith was mouth in prayer. Thereafter some conversation followed as to whether Adam is our God or not. There are some in the Church who do not accept of the statement of Pres. Young that such is the case, but to me it seems reasonable to think that Adam has at least much to do with our present condition, and will control greatly our future destiny.
[Source: Quotations Dealing with the Relationship of Our First Earthy Parents to Our Heavenly Parents (1830-1978)]
170 years ago today - May 26, 1842
[General] John C Bennett: Joseph Smith Jr. prevented Nauvoo Lodge from expelling John C Bennett 26 May 1842
[Source: Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 6, Biographical Sketches of General Officers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47, http://amzn.to/origins-power]
[Source: Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 6, Biographical Sketches of General Officers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47, http://amzn.to/origins-power]
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