| Show history of I 1 a t PARLEY P PRATT I 1 am thet the third bird son of jared piatt pratt and charity dickeson of columbia county new york 1 I 1 april apri 12 1807 in 1 burlington 3 urling tob top 0 otsego t se county new ya rk I 1 of ay my childhood and youth I 1 will say but little 1 ivas avas I raised to hard work on a farm brou t up in n the strictest rn ril orals brals was a be lle lib v ver et r in the bable and jesus christ received I 1 but a limited education in the common schools 11 1 I wab was marriet marriel september ft 1827 in canaan na n columbia co N Y my wife 3 name camp was wag thankful daughter of william and thank ful halsey she was born in new lebanon citi ciel columbia bia bla county N Y march marih h 18 1707 0 antte tae of march 1837 1831 she gave birth to my firstborn first born whose name is js parley and died the thi same day this happened in kirt batik land I 1 Obio abdal about the first of september A D 1830 0 I 1 was baptized by the hand of an apostle named oliver cowdery this took place in seneca lake LA e I 1 was confirmed the same day and ordained an elder eider ider lder at the house of V father a ther whitmer seneca county K N y from that time forth I 1 began to minister in the falness odthe of the gospel my first miss mission tott loti anva was i s in tit coldi columbia m ibia ibra county among myre my relatives lativs and nei nel neighbors bbous baptized my brother orson pratt returning 01 to western new york the same autumn autu I 1 saw for the the first tinie time joseph smith the Prop liet ilet at his bis fathers house in manchester heard hip him him preach and preached in his house bouse at the close of which ine lne meeting eting we baptized seven persons affer after aften this le lie enquired odthe 10 lo lord rd and received I 1 a revelation appointing me mea a mission to the west in in co company compans with oliver cowdery peter whitmer jun and ziba ye started this mission in october 1830 from 1 father in western new york we travelled travail edn nearly early fifteen hundred miles mostly on fodi foot and nd arrived in jackson coilty county missouri in the beginning of tb the e year 1831 having pre preached ached the gospel and left the book of mormon with the Cater augus indians indiana near buffalo N Y and arid with the ohp wi an dots of ohio we e also p preached reached the gosiel and established the church in kirtland Kirt lard ohio ohl and arid the regions regiana round about consisting of several hundred members among whom were sidney rig do lon ion Is isaac c morley john murdock murdoch lyman wight and many others whom we ordained elders ll 11 y f t pa passing asing the western weste rn bounds of f missouri 1 jf amid the d beep snows snowa of january 1831 we en vered what is 13 now called kansas and bote bore the book boole of mormon and our oun testimony to the delaware indians who rec received elved elvea it joyfully y we were soon ordered out by government agents and threatened with the military we then returned to jackson county missouri ana anu I 1 I 1 I 1 preached the gospel in be beveral several eral neighborhoods baptizing zin a few on oh the february ame same year T I 1 took leave of f my my fellow laborers in jackson count county 4 and travelled travelle 12 mostly on foot to kirtland ohio nearly one thousand miles where I 1 arrived so some me time in march diero here I 1 met with president joseph smith who enquired of the ibe lord and received commandment man dment for me to preach the gospel and visit he churches in the regions r around lound a 11 which I 1 did u until 1 the conference at at kirtland held june in which president joseph smith by the word of god pod ordained me with many others to the high priesthood and arid received a revel revelation a llon lion for me and my brother orson orpo and many others to journey two and two to the western bounds of missouri Misso uri preaching and baptizing I 1 by the way f t I 1 we started in jude june performed this ja journey on foot organized several churches by the way and ald arrived in it western massou missouri in october of the sala saiA same bame year from this time un until til february 1832 1 I was very sick 0 fever feier and ague during which I 1 tarried with the churches here lera about the 1 of february 1 I attended in jackson county over which bishop edward partridge Part rid e presided here I 1 was waa healed by the laying an on of df hands bands and th the e iierda next day sti started tried my ret return atrit mission 1 in n co corm corn in I 1 I 1 pany with john mardock and others after a tedious journey of a thousand miles we arri arrived ved id la kirtland ohio in may 1832 having 0 preach edby edly the way with some success after a short mission to pittsburgh and back on foot distance miles mies I 1 rei removed noved with m my y wife to jackson jacison county missouri where f X settled opened a farm and built a lo 10 log cabin the next winter in company with elder W E Mc mcclellin Lellin I 1 performed a mission on 04 foot through missouri and lind inta green gleen county illinois where we preached reached with much success di distance about six hundred miles in going and returning about the first of june I 1 returned home born e devoted my rny time among the tife churches and in pre siding over X school of Elder dis sis did in afon t n andin and in ab oring I 1 my b hands ano and in the autumn of 1833 1 I was driven out of 0 jackson county with the rest of the church I 1 at the loss of my home I 1 took refuge in clay county where I 1 obtained a living by d day ay labor a jobbing c r s 01 on the first of february being sent by a general conference idd held heid in clay county counts I 1 T started in with elder eider lyman LymanN wight VI g h t on horseback rode one thousand miles and tand arrived in kirtland iii in marcu president joseph smith enquired of the be lord ord anda and by y revelation pur mission mis was still extended eastward in with others president ent tnt joseph SM smith ith and myself journeyed P boget together iler lier as faras far as fennessee Genn gern essee county new york where we held conference after which we separated tedi and I 1 still continued ei stward eastward visiting the chur ebur churches ciles clies in northern new neo york and my mk friends in colum columbia illa ilia county i I 1 again 0 arrived iKi rlland in th the latter iatter part of on the first of may 1834 1 I 1 started with president smith and ad company for upper tipper missouri where we arrived in july 1 in ill this thia journey I 1 hlad bad had traveled by land near four thousand miles from this till october I 1 spent the time in laboring with mafli my ands hands i on the ath of october in compliance with a revelation through the thi prophet joseph I 1 started started with mith my wife for kirtland ohio at A ter journeying near one thousand miles with a horse borse team we stopped for the winter at new portage within fifty miles of kirtland here nere I 1 dev devoted doted my time diligently in the ministry and in la laboring borine with my hands until F february 1835 when I 1 repaired to kirtland february 1835 I 1 was ordained one of the twelve apostles under tinder the habas hands of joseph seph smith sinith and others I 1 then immediately returned to new portage settled my affairs and returned again to kirtland to join the twelve on a mission eastward may eth we started his this bis mission the season beason beason son was spent in preaching visiting the churches holding conferences etl etc in in the e eastern steart states tates august found us in in the state of maine and in september we returned to kirtland the winter was spent in the school of the prophets in in the of the lord in april 1836 Y X took a mission to canada and na labored through the season in in the city oi of toronto and round about which mission resulted in the baptism bim fim and ordination of johy johi taylor joseph fielding and others and rn the gather ing into the church of many souls in october of I 1 th the e same year I 1 returned beturne d to kirtland ap spent ent the winter at hor hoi I 1 on the 2 ath 0 of f march 1837 my my son parley was born in in fulfillment of a prophecy delivered on the head of my wife about eleven months previous by elder il C kimball H having avik avil lived I 1 to 0 see and embrace her child she died about two hours after his birth in an the spring of 1837 soon after the death of my wife I 1 return returned ef to canada on a short I 1 m mission to the saints during 0 which several of the canadian elders viz joseph field fielding ngi nai isaac russell john snyder and john goodson we were selected for a mission to england they were set apart and performed that mission under the presidency of elder H C kimball kinball and orson hyde this thil being the first it introduction of the falness cf of the gospel in europe may oth eama bam sam year I 1 was again agaid married receiving the hand of mary an ann n frost daughter of qt aaroe frost t of maine urine maine soon biter after this k marriage ident I 1 went to the city of new york where at 16 length I 1 th I 1 suc sue succeeded deeded in baptizing 0 I 1 1 many IP any V among whom was addison I 1 everett here I 1 wrote and published the ivo voice ice of JV yarning yar Var arning ning and here god man manifested infested his power in many gila and bearings bealings bea lings causing the work to aprea spread I 1 drough through the ibe city and round about 1 I 1 in jn april took leave of new york and with a small colony emigrated once more to missouri yle we settled in caldwell county in arf may where I 1 built a a house and made a farm with my own hands bands besides devoting much of my time to the ministry 11 in autumn of the same year I 1 was imprisoned I 1 with lr joseph and anu ana others while my family and the whole church were robbed plundered and driven fim the state anthe on the fourth of jul jui july 71 1839 1 I gained my freedom by the power of god after eight months and four days imprisonment and escaped to illinois I 1 found my family in quincy ap and d e I 1 them ato to nauvoo I 1 I 1 again commenced to labor with iny idy hands on the of au augus angus us f 1839 r T started on a mission to england in compliance with i a revelation through joseph eph smith smith we td traveled by land in a carriage za miles my brother orson and my family accompany We arrived at detroit and tarried a few days with oui our brother an anson on aad with pur father and mother who then lived with him my father being bein 11 about 70 years of ame age age t wab was then laying low with a fever and boon afier affer died continuing Contin tl ing our journey we arrived in new york some rome time in autumn where I 1 tarried for the vinter winter having 1 great success in the ministry on the oth of march 1840 1 I sailed for I 1 liverpool england in company with elders B young II 11 C In indall ball bail 0 pratt fratt and others we had bad a rough p passage asa aba of 0 twenty eight days and on the sixth day of april landed in liver 7 iver lver pool we colv convened enad a general conference at preston on the of apri april in which elders I 1 B young H 11 C kimball and myself were appointed a publishing committee for the church I 1 was waa also appointed editor and publisher of a monthly periodical to be called the millennial start STAR the first number of which was issued in may following A 1 lek tek I 1 continued in this publishing department between two and three years the last eid elA eighteen teen month months s of which I 1 had the presidency of 0 the church in the british isles i about the of october 0 took leave of england and sailed for new orleans I 1 chartering a ship called the ibe Enie emeralda Emeral raldy zaldy df and flaking t tak ing out with me several hundreds of the saints we landed inlew in new orleans after a tedious passage of ten weeks passing up the ri riven river ve for one week I 1 landed an with my fa family Cheater in e a t er illinois where we vewin tere ori ork or account of tha the th ice in 14 the course of the NY winter inter I 1 pa paid a visit viat vist to nauvoo on horseback and arid was I 1 welcomed by bv br joseph and my m y friends in i n general 1 I 1 on the 0 of apra 1843 I 1 landed 1 in nauvoo with moy toy family the rem remainder at n der of ol tho season was spent in building ac the spring of 1844 1 was sent out on a mission 4 alonto to the eastern states I 1 went H ent as far ar ag as new York held beld several meetings tnt but wab waa constrained strai n ed by the holy spirit tp to return home speedily oa on arriving t in in cuica chicago 1 b 0 ll I 1 heard beard of the death of joseph and hyrum smith I 1 arrived home in time to console the saints and assist in keeping them together until the return of president young youn 0 and others of the i s twelve march larch 13 1858 crests crests B young 11 C kimball 0 hyde 0 pratt W woodruff geo A smith and E T benson heard thia history readdy ra R L campbell and approved of it r |
