| Zion's Camp veteran, charter member of the First
Quorum of Seventy. |
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May 8, 1795 in Vershire, Orange, Vermont. |
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| Died |
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January 1, 1873 in Salt Lake City. |
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| Father |
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Benjamin Winchester (1744–1805) |
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| Mother |
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Bethia Benjamin (b. 1743) |
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| Baptized |
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[January 21], 1833 baptized, while living in
Springfield, Pennsylvania. |
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Evan M. Greene, 2. Not mentioned by name, but this is the only date baptisms are performed in or near Springfield before "Brother Winchester" is mentioned on January 30. |
| Zion's
Camp |
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May–June 1834 participates in effort to restore Saints
to their homes in Jackson County. |
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Zion's Camp |
| Makes bricks |
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Summer 1834 makes bricks to construct
a large house in Clay County for Col. Michael Arthur. Other workers include Wilford
Woodruff (h1), Milton
Holmes, Heman T. Hyde, Lyman Wight,
and Benjamin Winchester. |
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Wilford Woodruff lived with
Lyman Wight on Arthur's property. They began brick work about the first
of July. Meetings of the high council and elders council met here,
as did the branch, which met in Lyman's house. WWJ 1:12–13. |
| Ordained a priest |
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November 5, 1834 teachers Stephen Winchester and Wilford
Woodruff, and member Heman T. Hyde,
apply for ordination. Simeon Carter
is appointed to ordain Elias F. Wells, George
Burkett, and Samuel Brown elders; and Stephen
Winchester, Wilford Woodruff, Heman T. Hyde priests. |
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Minutes of November
5, 1834
Wilford Woodruff's License (Priest)
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| Seventy |
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After February 28, 1835 named to the First
Quorum of Seventies. |
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First Quorum of Seventies |
| Be ready for mission |
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May 2, 1835 among those notified to be ready to go on a mission
"when circumstances permit." |
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Minutes
of May 2, 1835 |
| Kirtland warning out |
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November 7, 1836 signs warning out notice to Kirtland Justice
of the Peace Ariel Hanson; other signers includes Joseph Smith, Oliver
Cowdery, Sidney Rigdon, Frederick
G. Williams, Uncle John Smith, Brigham
Young, William Smith, Parley P. Pratt and other prominent Mormons. |
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"Petition of Joseph Smith
Jr. to Ariel Hanson," Mormon Related Archives. |
| Battle of Crooked River |
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Oct. 24, 1838 Battle of Crooked River |
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| Death of David W. Patten |
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Oct. 25, 1838 David W. Patten dies in Stephen Winchester's home, three
miles from Far West. |
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Josiah Burrows, "David W. Patten," Contributor 6 no. 5 (Feb. 1885): 177. |
| Taken prisoner |
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Oct. 30, 1838 taken prisoner with Brother Carey, "whose skull
they laid open with a blow from a rifle barrel." |
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HC 3:182. |
Joseph arrested
Carry Carey home
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Oct. 31, 1838 after Joseph
Smith, Sidney
Rigdon, Parley Pratt, Lyman Wight, and George W. Robinson are arrested
by the militia, Stephen and eleven other prisoners carry Brother
Cary into the city to his family (he died soon after reached home.) |
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HC 3: 190. |
| Nauvoo Legion |
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February 4, 1841 attends organization of the Nauvoo Legion; appointed
second lieutenant. |
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HC 4:295 |
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[April] 1844 assigned to labor in Pennsylvania in Joseph Smith for President
campaign. |
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TS 5, no. 8 (Apr. 15, 1844): 505. |
| Seventeenth Ward |
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Resides in the Seventeenth Ward in Salt Lake City to his
death. |
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Edward H. Anderson, "A Fragment
of Early Church History," IE 11, no. 5 (Mar. 1908): |
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Family |
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| Wife |
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Nancy Case (b. May 21, 1795 in Argyle, Washington Co., NY;
md. July 31, 1816 in Half Moon, Albany Co., NY; d. Nov. 21, 1878 in Murray,
UT) |
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Sacred Loneliness, 767. |
| Children |
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Benjamin (b. Aug. 6, 1817 in Elk
Creek, Erie Co., PA; md.
Mary Hannah Stone, Feb. 25, 1840 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA;
d. Jan. 25, 1901 in
Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie Co., IA)
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Sacred Loneliness, 767. |
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Stephen (b. Sept. 21, 1820 in Elk Creek, Erie Co., PA; md. Maria Gray
Pearsons, Feb. 7, 1846 in Salt Lake City; d. Aug. 6, 1851)
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Sacred Loneliness, 767. |
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Nancy Mariah (b. Aug.10, 1828 in Black Rock Co., PA; md. Joseph Smith,
[1843] in Nauvoo, Hancock Co., IL; Heber C. Kimball, Oct. 10, 1844 in Nauvoo;
Amos George Arnold, Oct. 12, 1865 in Salt Lake City; d. 17 Mar. 1876 in
Salt Lake City)
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Sacred Loneliness, 606–608. |
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James Case (b. June 19, 1831 in Lundys Lane, Erie Co., PA; Elizabeth
Jane Chrisman, May 30, 1852 in Salt Lake City; d. 1918 in Murray, UT) |
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Ancestry.com
Sacred Loneliness, 767. |
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John Parley (b. Mar. 11, 1840 in Kinderhook,
Hancock Co., IL; d. Aug. 5, 1843 in Nauvoo) |
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Ancestry.com
Sacred Loneliness, 767. |
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