TODAY IN CHURCH HISTORY: 30 September

[Hemidakota]

1838 - The Kirtland Camp crossed over Grand River and came to a small collection of houses called Utica where several Latter-day Saint families lived. They continued on towards Far West, Missouri, crossing Shoal Creek. They are now regularly meeting members of the Church who live on the farms in the area as they near the headquarters of the Church at Far West.

1841 - The Prophet Joseph Smith sent a billing statement to the deputy sheriff of Adams County, Illinois, detailing his "expenses, costs, and liabilities, consequent upon my arrest and trial while in your custody" while dealing with the charges of Governor Boggs of Missouri in June 1841. (History of the Church, 4:419-420.)

1845 - The brethren met in council and Parley P. Pratt presented a list of items every family would need to cross the plains. The meeting adjourned when it was reported that Judge Stephen A. Douglas was at Elder John Taylor's home with Sheriff Backenstos wanting to meet with Brigham Young. General Hardin and 400 troops were on the square near the Temple. Brigham Young and other brethren first met with Judge Douglas who took them up to meet the General. They were asked questions about two men supposedly killed in Nauvoo. Brigham told them to look all they wanted but that there were a hundred Latter-day Saint homes burned in the south end of the county and he might look for the bodies there. The General and his men then searched the temple and other structures in Nauvoo for the bodies. At the Mansion House stable, they saw blood from a horse and the General and Judge both took their swords and stuck them in the ground looking for bodies. Later that evening, during the questioning of Church member Caleb Baldwin, most of the questions were about where the bodies of Joseph and Hyrum were buried. The General and his troops camped on the south side of Nauvoo.

1949 - General Conference is broadcast on television for the first time.

1961 - Elder Harold B. Lee announces the Church's new correlation effort, which includes the creation of an all-Church Coordinating Council made up of four members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, the Presiding Bishop, the auxiliary heads, and representatives from the Melchizedek Priesthood Committee and the Church Educational System.

1966 - The Church consolidates all Church-owned businesses under Deseret Management Corporation. Presidents Hugh B. Brown and N. Eldon Tanner of the First Presidency and Elder Gordon B. Hinckley of the Quorum of the Twelve are the three incorporators.

1978 - Emeritus status for General Authorities is announced in general conference. Seven members of the Seventy are then designated to this special status.

[yarbaz]

I am researching any information on Caleb Baldwin and would love to know where you found the questioning of Caleb Baldwin on September 15, 1845. Could you please let me know where I can find that information? Pretty please? thanks!

[yarbaz]

excuse me. i meant September 30, 1845. Thanks!

[pam]

I have been searching and searching and I can't find anything on this. I see mention of him on other dates and circumstances but nothing on this particular subject.

[Hemidakota]

History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, vol. 7:448

The Latter-Day Saints' millennial star, Volume 34

Edited July 12, 2010 by Hemidakota

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September 15, 1840 - The funeral of Joseph Smith, Sr. took place in Nauvoo with Robert B. Thompson delivering the funeral address. Also, the Times and Seasons reported that "The governor of Missouri [Lilburn W. Boggs], after a silence of about two years, has at last made a demand of Governor Carlin of Illinois, for Joseph Smith, Jun., Sidney Rigdon, Lyman Wight, Parley P. Pratt, Caleb Baldwin, and Alanson Brown, as fugitives from justice." (History of the Church, 4:191-199)

November 28, 1838 - Judge Austin A. King ordered all the prisoners being held at Richmond, Missouri, released, except Lyman Wight, Caleb Baldwin, Hyrum Smith, Alexander McRae, Sidney Rigdon, and the Prophet Joseph Smith----who were to be transported to Liberty Jail in Liberty, Missouri, to stand trial for treason and murder, and Parley P. Pratt, Morris Phelps, Luman Gibbs, Darwin Chase, and Norman Shearer, who were to be kept in the prison at Richmond, Missouri, to stand trial for the same crimes. (History of the Church, 3:212-213)

1 December, 1838 - The Prophet Joseph Smith, Hyrum Smith, Sidney Rigdon, Lyman Wight, Caleb Baldwin, and Alexander McRae arrive at, and are incarcerated in, Liberty Jail, Liberty, Missouri. A meeting between the representatives of the Saints and the citizens of Daviess County was held at Adam-Ondi-Ahman. An agreement was reached in which the Saints could hire teamsters to help haul their property out of the state and also to gather their stock in the county to take with them. Some time in December Heber C. Kimball and Alanson Ripley were appointed, by the brethren still living in Far West, to visit the Prophet at Liberty Jail as often as they could to keep him informed of the movement of the Saints from Missouri. The Prophet later records that "We were sometimes visited by our friends, whose kindness and attention I shall ever remember with feelings of lively gratitude" (History of the Church, 3:244).

April 6th, 1839 - The Prophet Joseph Smith, his brother Hyrum, Alexander McRae, Caleb Baldwin, and Lyman Wight are taken, under a guard of ten men, from Liberty Jail to stand trial in Gallatin, Missouri. Instead of going through Far West as promised, the guards took them around the city to avoid the friends of the prisoners. There was a fear of escape, but the Prophet felt that there was an expectation that they would be murdered along the route. The journey would take nearly three days, arriving near Gallatin on April 8th.

April 7, 1839 - The Prophet Joseph Smith, Hyrum Smith, Alexander McRae, Caleb Baldwin, and Lyman Wight arrive in Gallatin, Missouri, and were turned over to Sheriff William Morgan and his guard to stand trial. (History of the Church, 3:309)

April 22, 1839 - Joseph and Hyrum Smith, Alexander McRae, Caleb Baldwin, and Lyman Wight, after their arranged escape from Missouri and their traveling “by night and by day . . . suffering much fatigue and hunger,” arrive in Quincy, Illinois. Joseph is reunited with Emma and his family after suffering through six months of confinement, most of which was in Liberty Jail. He writes, “I arrived in Quincy, Illinois, amidst the congratulations of my friends, and the embraces of my family, whom I found as well as could be expected, considering what they had been called to endure” (History of the Church, 3:327).

April 8, 1839 - The Prophet Joseph Smith, Hyrum Smith, Alexander McRae, Caleb Baldwin, and Lyman Wight arrive in Gallatin, Missouri, and were turned over to Sheriff William Morgan and his guard to stand trial. (History of the Church, 3:309)

October 1, Wednesday, 1845. At seven o'clock I went to the parade ground as usual and started the teams to work on the road and temple again and then went to the printing office with G.L.M. Herring and got there just as Hardin's troops had marched up and formed before the office. I then went in to Elder [John] Taylor's house where the Twelve and others were in council with Hardin and his officers. He seemed to think that he could do nothing for us that if he marched his troops away the mob would rise again and if we defended ourselves, as he said we had a right to do, the mob would raise forces enough to overwhelm us at once, but never said anything about the protecting arm of government. His conclusion of the whole matter was that if we did not give the public some convincing tokens that it was our determination to leave here in the spring, that nothing could save us from being totally overwhelmed.

What patriotic protection for an officer sent by the governor to maintain the "Supremacy of the Law;" from there the troops all marched to the temple and all went through and round about it and I and Herrin followed on to the temple to witness their maneuvers. I there found that they had took Brother Caleb Baldwin prisoner to make him account for the exit of Wilcox because Mr. Jennings had complained that Baldwin had said that he was a spy. From here after we had grown tired of witnessing the imprudence and ill manners of the troops in the [Nauvoo] temple and on it. Herring and I came home and then took dinner and went back, he to the marquee and to the temple, the troops having returned to their encampment. From the temple I started down the hill and met Brother Baldwin who informed me that they had set him at liberty, as they could get no pretext against him and that they were then inquiring after me as the Captain of the Police, and thought I had best look out for myself. So I rode down to the bank of the river and came to Brother D. [Daniel] Carn and left word with his wife how matters were going, and then went to John Binley's and put up my horse and sent him to see Colonel Harmon and inform him what was going on. And I stayed there and at Father Knight's until dark, and then took my horse and rode up to Allen Week's with Captain McRae and took them to my house. And after finding out by sending [Allen] Weeks in that no one had been there, I went in and informed my wife what was done and then took a trunk which had some articles which I wanted with us. We then returned to [Allen] Weeks again where I remained all night in peace. P. 66-67 Hosea Stout, Diary,

BYU Special Collections Source: Diary (1844-1846) of Hosea Stout, vols. 1 and 2, typescript, BYU-S. For additional information on Hosea Stout and his diary, including notes and comments, see Juanita Brooks, ed., On the Mormon Frontier: The Diary of Hosea Stout 1844-1861 (University of Utah Press, 1964).

[Hemidakota]

LDS.org - Ensign Article - From High Hopes to Despair: The Missouri Period, 1831-39 Edited July 12, 2010 by Hemidakota

[Hemidakota]

There are other history artifacts about Caleb Baldwin that I send to you.