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Big Spring on Mosquito Branch

congregation #481223
created 2012-10-02 by bplewe
official name: Big Spring on Mosquito Branch
assertion #3725124 by bplewe on 2012-10-02: confidence 80%.
official name: Big Spring Branch
assertion #3724965 by bplewe on 2012-10-02: confidence 70%.
official name: Big Spring Branch on Mosquito
assertion #3724970 by bplewe on 2025-02-06: confidence 80%.
is a(n): dual-leader branch
Pres. Evan M. Greene, Bishop Gardner Snow
assertion #3724949 by bplewe on 2019-10-04: confidence 100%.
started: between Jan 1847 and 7 May 1847
assertion #3724968 by bplewe on 2025-02-06: confidence 100%.
ended: between 3 Sep 1848 and 1849
assertion #3738968 by bplewe on 2025-02-06: confidence 100%.
religion: LDS
assertion #4003545 by bplewe on 2017-07-29: confidence 100%.
location: 41°14'11"N, 95°48'57"W
assertion #3718639 by bplewe on 2025-02-06: confidence 80%.
located at: Iowa, United States
assertion #3713223 by bplewe on 2012-10-02: confidence 100%.
part of: Pottawattamie (Stake)
entity #480719, assertion #3751183 by bplewe on 2025-02-05: confidence 100%.
see also: Centerville Branch (Iowa)
Both list Bishop Gardner Snow around the same time (1848), but not simultaneously
entity #480732, assertion #4027474 by bplewe on 2025-02-06: confidence 80%.
see also: Big Spring Branch [Mynster's]?
PRO 1: contemporary sources rarely distinguish them. 2. Pres. Samuel Brown appears in both (at different times). CON 1. no other members in common. 2. geographic clues point in two very different directions.
entity #480495, assertion #4004481 by bplewe on 2018-02-11: confidence 0%.
see also: Carterville Branch
PRO 1. at least 6 families in common, including the 1847 Branch President. 2. Big Spring never mentioned once Carterville starts to appear in autumn 1848. 3. names mixed together in 1850 census. CON 1. on 8/6/1848 HPM p.5, both branches appear in the same list.
entity #480730, assertion #4004480 by bplewe on 2025-02-06: confidence 80%.
succeeded by: Carterville Branch
entity #480730, assertion #4027455 by bplewe on 2025-02-06: confidence 80%.
has member: Big Spring on Mosquito
entity #481313, assertion #3751182 by bplewe on 2012-10-02: confidence 100%.
in group: Winter Quarters Era
assertion #3726945 by bplewe on 2025-02-06: confidence 100%.
confidence in this page (0 to 1): 0.68
assertion #4022098 by bplewe on 2024-06-05: confidence 100%.
see also: HO Journal   (source part: box 1 V.10 p.18)
apostles visit "Big Spring Branch presided over by E.M. Greene," December 5 1847. Also mentions Dominicus Carter and Wm F. Carter
entity #700100, assertion #4004469 by bplewe on 2018-02-11: confidence 100%.
see also: Pottawattamie HP Quorum Minutes 6
William J. Bennett of "Big Spring on Musquito" a HP, September 3 1848
entity #850432, assertion #3772685 by bplewe on 2025-02-06: confidence 100%.
see also: Pottawattamie HP Quorum Minutes 5
Gardner Snow, William Gardner of "Big Spring on Musqueto," Chauncey W. Porter "of same" are high priests, July 2 1848, Only source where Big Spring and Carterville are mentioned on the same day, but not both called branches.
entity #850431, assertion #3772678 by bplewe on 2025-02-06: confidence 100%.
see also: Pottawattamie HC Minutes 1:84?
March 4 1848: unnamed "branch where E.M. Greene presides." BSoM or Carterville or are they the same thing?
entity #850393, assertion #4004540 by bplewe on 2018-02-16: confidence 50%.
see also: Pottawattamie HC Minutes 1:105
Bishop Gardner Snow, July 15 1848
entity #850383, assertion #3772570 by bplewe on 2025-02-05: confidence 100%.
see also: Pottawattamie High Priest Quorum Roll
16 charter members of the quorum, 2 Jan 1848; doesn't distinguish between the two Big Spring branches, but most are associated with this one.
entity #850434, assertion #4004473 by bplewe on 2018-02-11: confidence 100%.
see also: EM Greene Diary   (image: catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org, source part: V.6 p.91)
"Spring Branch on Muskeeto Creek" organized, May 8 1847, President E.M. Greene, Lyman Stoddard visiting authority; members Moses Tracy, David Colvin, Orlin Colvin, William Carter, Elisabeth Heward, Levi Savage
entity #700102, assertion #4004477 by bplewe on 2025-02-06: confidence 100%.
notes: This branch is clearly separate from the other Big Spring, but it has several members in common with Carterville, including the 1848 bishop and president. Almost all mentions of this branch are before any mentions of Carterville. Thus it is likely that Big Spring either turned into or was merged into Carterville Branch.
assertion #3716223 by bplewe on 2025-02-06: confidence 100%.

Leaders:

President: Evan Melbourne Greene
FamilySearch: KWNT-73J , Started: 8 May 1847 , Ended: between 1848 and 1849 , Source Image , Source: Evan M. Greene Diaries, V.6 p.91, Church History Library MS 1442 , Source: mp:700102
Appears to have been president of Big Spring and Carterville at the same time; same branch?
assertion #474 by leaders on : confidence 0%.
member: Moses Tracy
FamilySearch: KWJ8-P6Q , Started: 1847
assertion #608690 by kv on : confidence 0%.
Acting Bishop: Gardner Snow
FamilySearch: KWVM-3QX , Started: 15 Jul 1848 , Ended: between Aug 1848 and Sep 1848 , Source Image , Source: Pottawattamie High Council Minutes, Church History Library LR 1764 21, folder 1 p.105 , Source: mp:850383
Appears to have been bishop of Big Spring and Centerville at the same time; same branch?
assertion #475 by leaders on : confidence 0%.
member: William Bennett
FamilySearch: MDZH-8T9 , Started: 1848
assertion #600884 by kv on : confidence 0%.
member: Daniel Carter
FamilySearch: LKVY-GGQ , Started: 1848
assertion #601785 by kv on : confidence 0%.
member: Dominicus Carter
FamilySearch: KNCH-VGT , Started: 1848
assertion #601787 by kv on : confidence 0%.
member: Ezekiel Lee
FamilySearch: KWJJ-PTH , Started: 1848
assertion #605285 by kv on : confidence 0%.
member: Gardner Snow
FamilySearch: KWVM-3QX , Started: 1848 , Source: mp:850383 , Source: mp:850431
assertion #608058 by kv on : confidence 0%.
member: Warren Stone Snow
FamilySearch: KWJW-7BS , Started: 1848
assertion #608059 by kv on : confidence 0%.
member: Marie Louise Allard
FamilySearch: LLQ6-ZYB , Started: 1849 , Source: mp:700114
assertion #605212 by kv on : confidence 0%.
member: Orlin Philander Colvin
FamilySearch: KWVM-H7B , Ended: 1852
assertion #602253 by kv on : confidence 0%.
member: David Sands Colvin
FamilySearch: KWVM-FLF
assertion #602258 by kv on : confidence 0%.