[Joseph Smith Diary] Thursday, May 30th 1844 10 A.M. Municipal Court Jeremiah Smith Sen[ior] on Habeus Corpus discharged and Do. Another petition same case on arrest of Luther W. Hicko[c]k Burlington. Adjourned court 1 [P.M.] to 3. 3 to 4 1/2 in court. Jeremiah Smith discharged.
Evening [U.S. marshall] F. B. Johnson as was reported was going to Burlington. Jeremiah Smith swore out execution [paid] $77.75. Johnson come forward and acknowledged fee bill.
Hicko[c]k called for copy of proceedings. Johnson threatened to bring the draggons [dragoons] &c. to get [Jeremiah] Smith. Pleasant. (1)
-- May 31, 1844
Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph Smith administered to Sister Richards, who was sick; and he issued a warrant for the arrest of Thomas B. Johnson for threatening the peace of the city. (2)
[Joseph Smith Diary] Friday, May 31st 1844 9 A.M. Ordered a capias to arrest T[homas] B. Johnson for threatening the peace of the city with Draggon [dragoon] &c. H. Hugins made affidavit but Johnson had gone.
10 A.M. Called at my office and wrote. 1 P.M. was called to see Sister Richards who was very sick. Laid on hands. Directed some Raspberry tea and she was better. [met with Council of Fifty]] 2 or 3 Indians stay in hall over night. [several lines left blank] Pleasant. (1)
Council of Fifty convenes their seventeenth and last meeting prior to the death of Joseph Smith. (3)
-- During 1844, May to August
[Wilford Woodruff] Serves another mission in the eastern United States. (4)
-- During May 1844
Charles Coulson Rich: Mission to Michigan May 1844 to campaign for Joseph Smith as President of United States. (5)
Ezra Taft Benson: Mission to East May 1844. (5)
Hyrum Smith: Delegate to Illinois Democratic convention May 1844 and publicly recommended to be Illinois legislative candidate by William Smith q(5)
George Albert Smith: Took mission campaigning for Joseph Smiths candidacy for United States presidency May 1844. (5)
[Heber C. Kimball] Leaves to electioneer for Joseph Smith's candidacy for president of the United States. (7)
Heber Chase Kimball: Mission to East May 1844 to campaign for Joseph Smith as President of United States. (5)
[Nauvoo Temple] Josiah Quincy, Mayor of Boston, visited Nauvoo and overheard Joseph Smith tell a stone carver that the face on the sunstone was "very near" the face he saw in vision. (8)
Frank Henry was born on 23 Jan 1845. Many suspect Joseph Smith was the actual father for two reasons. First, because Marinda had been the polygamous wife of Smith since Apr 1842. Second, because Smith had sent her first husband, Orson Hyde, on a mission to Washington on April 4, 1844 "immediately" after a meeting with Joseph Smith (History of the Church, pg. 286). The gestation period for a human is on average 266, days (not 9 months), which would date the conception to early May 1844. Of course 266 is an average date and the figures vary. To give you an idea of the range, only four percent of pregnancies are actually carried two weeks or more beyond the average time (Guttmacher, 1983). Frank Henry was born on January 23, 1845. Orson Hyde left for Washington April 4, 1844. The difference in these two dates is 294 days! That is almost a month longer than expected and is basically physiologically impossible, especially considering that Orson Hyde had not returned to Nauvoo unti
l August 6, 1844 (Andrew Jenson, Church Chronology, August 6, 1844). She later divorced Hyde and voiced her disgust of polygamy. Smith possible father of Frank Henry Hyde (by Nancy Marinda Hyde) . PLACE: Nauvoo, IL (9)
Footnotes:
1 - Faulring, Scott (ed.), An American Prophet's Record: The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith: Joseph Smith Diary, 1844, http://amzn.to/jsdiaries
2 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith, http://amzn.to/BYUStudies-JSChron
3 - Hales, Brian C., Joseph Smith's Polygamy: History and Theology, 2 vols., Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2011 (www.JosephSmithsPolygamy.com)
4 - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Wilford Woodruff, Salt Lake City, Utah
5 - 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
6 - 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
7 - Kimball, Stanley B. (editor), On the Potter's Wheel: The Diaries of Heber C. Kimball, Chronology, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1987, http://bit.ly/heberckimball
8 - Brown, Lisle (compiler), Chronology of the Construction, Destruction and Reconstruction of the Nauvoo Temple
9 - Joseph Smith Polygamy Timeline, http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/JS_Polygamy_Timeline.htm
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