| Joseph Fielding (1797–1863) |
| Born | March 26, 1797 in Honeydon, Bedfordshire, England | ||
| Died | December 19, 1863 in Salt Lake county | ||
| Father | John Fielding (1759–1836) | ||
| Mother | Rachel Ibbotson (1767–1828) | ||
| Baptism | May 21, 1836 in Black Creek near Joseph Fielding's home in Charleton (now a Toronto suburb), by Parley P. Pratt | "John Taylor Family," 52; "Laying the Foundation," 1. | |
| Ordinations | Teacher, summer 1836 | ¶ Joseph Fielding diary | |
| Missions | England (1837–1842) | Men with a Mission. | |
| Positions | Mission president, Great Britain (1838–1840) | ||
| Council of Fifty | Intimate Chronicle, 130. | ||
| Anointed Quorum | Mormon Hierarchy Origins, 118, 356n71. | ||
| Endowed | December 9, 1843. > | ||
| Events | 1832 Emigrated to Canada with his sister, Mercy Rachel, in 1832, and farmed in Charleton, nine miles northwest of Toronto. | ¶ 1841 letter | |
| 1834–1836 Toronto study group with sisters, John and Leonora Taylor, others. | |||
| May 1837 Move to Kirtland, begin mission to England. > | |||
| Second anointing, Nauvoo, date unknown. | ¶ Joseph Fielding diary | ||
| Families | Hannah Greenwood (1818–1877) md. June 11, 1838 | ||
| Rachel (1837–1914) | |||
| Ellen (1841–1906) | |||
| Heber (1843–1866) | |||
| Joseph Greenwood (1846–1866) | |||
| Hyrum Thomas (1847–1847) | |||
| Hannah Alice (1849–1857) | |||
| Sarah Ann (1851–1938) | |||
| Mary Ann Peake Greenhalgh (1802–1885)
md. January 23, 1846 Ancestral File also has an 1843 marriage to Mary Ann Peak, who was born about 1805, though christened in 1798. |
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| Josephine (b. January 7, 1849) Birth noted in Joseph Fielding diary entry; not in Ancestral File. | |||
| Mission to England | ||||
| Mission
to England Family connections |
In June accompanied Heber C. Kimball, Orson Hyde, and others left Kirtland on the first mission to England. The early success of the mission was due largely to the willingness of Joseph's brother, Rev. James Fielding, and later his brother-in-law, Rev. Timothy Mathews, to make their pulpits available to the missionaries <. | Men with a Mission, 29–40. | ||
| Mission president | Joseph was left in charge of the mission when Heber C. Kimball and Orson Hyde returned to America in the spring of 1838. By that time there were nearly one thousand Saints organized in twenty branches throughout the country. He married one of those Saints, Hannah Greenwood, in June 1838. | |||
| 1841 to Nauvoo | He was released as mission president when Brigham Young and other apostles arrived in 1840, but continued to serve as a missionary until he and Hannah left for the States in 1841 and settled in Nauvoo near the end of the year. | |||
| Endowment | ||||
| 1843 Endowment | On December 9, received his endowment in the same session as William W. Phelps, Levi Richards, Lot Smith, and Cornelius P. Lott in the office over Joseph's redbrick store. < | endowment: Wilford Woodruff's Journal, 2:331; American Prophet, 431. | ||
| Winter Quarters to Utah | ||||
| Winter
Quarters Utah |
Following the martyrdom, Joseph remained a reliable support for his widowed sisters, traveling to Winter Quarters with them, building shelters, and traveling with Mary's family to Utah in 1848. He settled near Mary in Millcreek, where he spent his final years. | |||
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1837
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