assertion #4002997 by mpra on 2017-07-07: confidence 100%.
belongs to:Nauvoo Stake(started:between Jun 1841 and Jan 1842)
entity #481425, assertion #4002977 by mpra on 2017-07-07: confidence 100%.
in group:Nauvoo Era
assertion #3725490 by bplewe on 2012-10-28: confidence 80%.
quote:"The Mormons also figured largely in a Church organization here [Pleasant Vale Township] some years later. They at one time had a society of about 100 communicants, and erected a house of worship in the northwest part of the township. Then the Nauvoo trouble came, however, they left his neighborhood to join their brethren at that place. The old Mormon church was afterward moved to the Mississippi river, and there used for a warehouse.”(source:Pike Co 1880)
assertion #4002933 by mpra on 2017-07-07: confidence 100%.
quote:"...enjoyed my new home very well until some time in the month of June [1839] I was visited by one of the original high counsel. After he found there were several of the saints in that part of the country he called them together and organized us into a branch of the church, and I was set apart and chosen to take charge of the same . . . [in October 1839 Joseph Smith] told me to return an continue preaching and when the branch reached the number of 100 he would then come and organize the branch a stake of Zion. I went home to my field of labor. Doors were open on every hand, I preached and baptized and in about two weeks the branch number 112. I let Joseph know according to his instructions and he being overtaxed with business sent his brother Hyrum who was his first councellor and bishop Geo. Miller. They came and organized the branch into a stake of Zion for a resting place for the saints that were gathering from the east and from the south. In the organization I was ordained and set apart to preside, and Wm. Allred Bishop...some time in the summer or fall of 1842 . . . a message came from the Prophet to discontinue our organization and immigrate to Hancock Co., and most all the branch submitted to the call, and in the Spring of 1843 I moved with my family and located in a place called Green Plain, with the notorious Levi Williams for one of my neighbors." William Draper(source:Wm Draper Autobio)
assertion #4002900 by mpra on 2017-07-06: confidence 100%.
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assertion #4021379 by bplewe on 2024-06-05: confidence 100%.
Oct 1839: Pleasant Vale organized as a [congregational] stake, Pres. William Draper, Bishop Wm Allred
entity #700061, assertion #4025655 by bplewe on 2024-10-04: confidence 100%.
notes:When Pleasant Vale reverted from a Stake (branch-stake) to a Branch is unclear. May 24 1841, Joseph Smith issued a notice that all stakes were to be dissolved. On September 25 1841 there was a conference of the Pleasant Vale *branch*. On February 1 1842, there is an appeal from a member of the Pleasant Vale *Stake* to the Nauvoo High Council. On May 8 1842, the Nauvoo High Council hears this appeal and resolves that the Pleasant Vale Stake should be dissolved and attached to Nauvoo Stake, but in the same proceeding also refers to it as a branch.
assertion #4002981 by mpra on 2017-07-07: confidence 100%.
