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Sand Prairie Branch

congregation #481042
created 2012-10-02 by bplewe
official name: Sand Prairie Branch   
assertion #3723409 by bplewe on 2012-10-02: confidence 100%.
is a(n): branch   
assertion #3723880 by bplewe on 2012-10-02: confidence 100%.
started: 1 Feb 1845   (source: Sand Prairie Branch Records)
assertion #3721775 by bplewe on 2017-07-17: confidence 100%.
ended: between Mar 1845 and 1846   
assertion #4003371 by mpra on 2017-07-17: confidence 100%.
description: It is possible that President Arnold Potter is the source of the name of Potter's Slough, where the refugees of the Battle of Nauvoo camped in Autumn 1846 while they waited for rescuers from the West, and where the Miracle of the Quail occurred.   
assertion #4006282 by bplewe on 2019-10-02: confidence 100%.
religion: Early   
assertion #4001248 by bplewe on 2017-04-08: confidence 100%.
located at: Jefferson Township, Lee, Iowa, United States   
assertion #3713042 by bplewe on 2017-07-17: confidence 100%.
location: 40°33'37"N, 91°25'28"W   
Potter's Slough may have been named after Arnold Potter?
assertion #3718897 by bplewe on 2017-07-17: confidence 30%.
membership/population: 49   (on: Mar 1845, source: T&S 6:5, 840)
assertion #3726692 by bplewe on 2017-07-17: confidence 100%.
part of: Iowa/Zarahemla Branch/Stake?   
Likely organized after the stake was gone
entity #480606, assertion #3751199 by bplewe on 2017-07-17: confidence 30%.
has member: Sand Prairie   
entity #481341, assertion #3751166 by bplewe on 2012-10-02: confidence 100%.
in group: Nauvoo Era   
assertion #3726691 by bplewe on 2012-10-28: confidence 80%.
quote: February the 1st AD 1845. Jefferson Township, Lee County, Territory of Iowa. We the members of the Sand Prairie Branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints having met at the house of David McKee agreeable to appointment to organize a branch of the same . . . Arnold Potter, Presiding Elder   (source: )
assertion #4003362 by mpra on 2017-07-17: confidence 100%.
see also: Sand Prairie Branch Records   
entity #850439, assertion #3772692 by bplewe on 2013-10-29: confidence 80%.
see also: T&S 6:5, 840   
Report from Sand Prairie Branch, March 1845
entity #850669, assertion #3773804 by bplewe on 2017-07-17: confidence 80%.