Mormon History, Oct 7, 1835

Mormon History Chronology / Timeline

-- Oct 7, 1835
[Whitney, Newel Kimball] Left for New York City with Hyrum Smith to purchase goods for store 7 October 1835. (1)

-- Oct 7, 1835-11
[Joseph Smith] Attended father during serious illness, Kirtland. (2)

-- Oct 8, 1835-9
Joseph waits on his father "with great anxiety." MS history 1:2, 559. (3)

-- Oct 10, 1835
Joseph calls on his father and finds him "failing very fast." MS history 1:2, 559. (3)

-- Oct 11, 1835
Kirtland, Ohio. The Lord revealed to Joseph Smith that his sick father would live, and the Prophet and David Whitmer administered a blessing of healing to him. (4)

-- Oct 16, 1835
Ebinezer Robertson babtized. (5)

-- (Sat) Oct 17, 1835
Joseph Smith turned out the various "boarders" who had been living in his home at Kirtland. If Samuel W. Denton was still residing with the Smith family, he and his new wife would have left by this date. (6)

-- Oct 17, 1835
Joseph calls his family together, arranges his "domestick concerns," and "dismissed my boarders." (3)

Joseph Smith's journal entry states: "Called my family together arranged my domestick concerns and dismissed my boarders." This may refer to his first plural wife, sixteen-year-old Fanny Alger, with whom his relationship has been causing rumors and dissention among Joseph's inner circle, leaving his home to live apart from him. (7)

-- about Oct 17, 1835
Kirtland, Ohio. Because of growing problems due to non-paying boarders, Joseph Smith dismissed all of his boarders in order to arrange and order his domestic affairs. (4)

-- Oct 19, 1835
Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith exhibited the ancient Egyptian records he had been translating to a number of visitors. (4)

-- Oct 23, 1835
Joseph, Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer, Hyrum Smith, John Whitmer, Sidney Rigdon, Samuel H. Smith, Frederick G. Williams, and W. W. Phelps pray for relief from debt, deliverance of Zion without bloodshed, protection from the Missourians, and the means to buy inheritances in Zion to accomplish the Lord's work there, "all this easily and without perplexity and trouble; and finally, that in the end He would save us in His celestial kingdom." (3)

Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith united with a group of the brethren to pray to the Lord for special blessings on the Saints. (4)


Footnotes:
1 - 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
2 - Jessee, Dean, Esplin, Ronald and Bushman, Richard Lyman (editors), The Joseph Smith Papers: Journals, Vol. 1: 1832-1839, Chronology for the Years 1832-1839
3 - Kenny, Scott, "Mormon History 1830-1844," http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml
4 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
5 - Tidd, N. R., "Mormon Chronology," http://bit.ly/14Qt5F
6 - Broadhurst, Dale R., Mormon Chronology, http://olivercowdery.com/history/morchrn2.htm
7 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com


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