[Lucy Mack Smith] Joseph commissioned as lieutenant-general of Nauvoo Legion. (1)
Smith, Don Carlos: Elected brigadier-general in Nauvoo Legion 4 February 1841. (2)
-- Feb 06, 1841
[Polygamy] Smith defends church member for "sleeping with two women". Smith tells the Nauvoo high council not to excommunicate Theodore Turley for "sleeping with two females," requiring him only to confess "that he had acted unwisely, unjustly, imprudently, and unbecoming." PLACE: Nauvoo High Council Meeting SOURCE: Minutes of the High Council of the Church of Jesus Christ of Nauvoo Illinois, 6 Feb 1841 (3)
-- Feb 6, 1841
Hyde, Orson: Elected to Nauvoo City Council 6 February 1841. (2)
[Lucy Mack Smith] Martha Jane Knowlton and Howard Coray are married by Robert B. Thompson. (4)
-- 9Feb41
[Joseph Smith Sermon] Not Sin in the Fall? (5)
-- Feb 11, 1841
Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph Smith performed the wedding of Philo Dibble and Hannah Ann Dubois Smith at his home, and his wife, Emma Smith, prepared a wedding supper for a large party of friends assembled. (6)
-- Feb 13, 1841
Elder Orson Hyde sails to Liverpool, England from New York City, to start his Mission in the Holy Land. (7)
-- Feb 15, 1841
On a mission in England Heber C. Kimball receives a letter from his wife Vilate relaying a message from Joseph Smith "for the Twelve to come immediately home for our personal Safety, as great Judgments are nigh in this land even at the Door." Kimball, Wilford Woodruff and Lorenzo Snow are apostles on missionary assignments to England at this time. (8)
-- 16Feb41
[Joseph Smith Sermon] Must Know God - How to Obtain Answers
Motive Precedes Action (5)
-- Feb 16, 1841
Wilford Woodruf writes while in England of "the awful Judgments that await the Nations. WAR WAR is [at] the door between England & America. O Lord Deliver us." (8)
-- Feb 17, 1841
Heber C. Kimball, Wilford Woodruff and Lorenzo Snow visit the "DISSECTING ROOM" of an Bartholomew Hospital in London. "The Dissecting apartment consisted of three Rooms, which contained about twenty Subjects viz. Human Bodies which the Doctors were dissecting that lay upon tables. Some were just commenced upon while others were nearly finished. Our stay was short as their was a great stench in the room. Limbs & parts of the body were hung in all parts of the room." (8)
-- Feb 18, 1841
In England Wilford Woodruff receives a letter from his wife: "It was truly a feast to me to hear from my Dear wife [and] child . . . after being separated nearly two years from them." (8)
Footnotes:
1 - Proctor, Scott and Maurine Jensen, editors, History of Joseph Smith by His Mother: Revised and Enhanced
2 - 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
3 - Joseph Smith Polygamy Timeline, http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/JS_Polygamy_Timeline.htm
4 - Anderson, Lavina Fielding, Editor, Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, 2001, Signature Books
5 - The Parallel Joseph, http://www.boap.org/LDS/Parallel/
6 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
7 - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, United Kingdom, "On This Day," https://www.lds.org.uk/show_oda.php
8 - This Day in Mormon History, http://www.advent-adam.com/jakestand.html
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