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    Lyman Wight (May 9, 1796 – March 31, 1858) was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement. He was the leader of the Latter Day Saints in Daviess...
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    Lyman Wight. On August 28, Judge Black gave his own sworn statement of the events. Sheriff Morgan attempted to arrest Wight, but arrived at Wight's home...
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    Young, Heber C. Kimball, Wilford Woodruff, Pratt, and Lyman Wight arrived in Nauvoo on August 6, Lyman sided with the group of Latter Day Saints who supported...
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  • of the Twelve Apostles 8 April 1841 Lyman Wight ordained. 20 August 1842 Orson Pratt excommunicated. Amasa M. Lyman ordained. 20 January 1843 Orson Pratt...
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    the other identifiable Mormon participants. On September 7, Smith and Lyman Wight appeared before Judge Austin A. King to answer the charges. King found...
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    Far West. In February 1838, Lyman Wight built a home and established a ferry on the Grand River at a spot known as "Wight's Ferry." That spring, Joseph...
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    them. A few settlers led by Lyman Wight moved about 15 miles (24 km) further north to Daviess County, Missouri, where Wight established a ferry across...
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    Church of Christ (Wightite), a Latter Day Saint denomination formed by Lyman Wight following the death of Joseph Smith, built first Mormon temple west of...
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  • plates. Church of Christ (Wightite) – This denomination, founded by Lyman Wight in 1844, split from the Church of Christ (Latter Day Saints) at the death...
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  • settlement remains today. It was the first Mormon colony established by Lyman Wight in Texas. The second settlement was Mormon Mill in Burnet County in 1851...
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  • player Lyman Wight (1796–1858), an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement Lyman Young (1893–1984), American cartoonist Abe Lyman (1897–1957), popular...
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    June 4: Nineteen men are ordained High Priests, including Joseph Smith, Lyman Wight, and Edward Partridge. Isaac Morley and John Corrill are ordained assistants...
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    occasions. It was later alleged by fellow prisoner and church apostle Lyman Wight that during one of these visits, his father laid his hands upon Joseph...
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    Smith but which some scholars believe was forged. Some hundreds followed Lyman Wight to establish a community in Texas. Others followed Alpheus Cutler. Many...
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    Minute Book 2 entry, Smith first ordains Lyman Wight and four other men "to the high priesthood," and Wight in turn ordains eighteen other men, including...
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    Texas, about three miles from Fredericksburg, at a colony founded by Lyman Wight. The only remaining material infrastructure of the colony is the Mormon...
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  • are brought up alongside Joseph, this first escape attempt fails, as Lyman Wight is too sick to make it out the door – and the prisoners decide they cannot...
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    1848, and on at least two more occasions, during the 1850s and 1860s. Lyman Wight was excommunicated from the church in December 1848 because he refused...
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    Witnesses and co-founder of the Church of Christ (Whitmerite) Photo of Lyman Wight, founder of the Church of Christ (Wightite) Photo of Lorin C. Woolley...
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    vacancies caused by the re-establishment of the First Presidency and Lyman Wight's excommunication. Shortly after his call to the Twelve, Snow left on...
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  • 27) April 26, 1839 – [October 7, 1868] Lyman Wight (age 48) April 8, 1841 – [December 3, 1848] Amasa M. Lyman (age 31) August 20, 1842 – January 20, 1843...
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  • an influx of about 20 Mormon pioneer families under the leadership of Lyman Wight. They had settled in Zodiac, Texas, in 1847, in Mormon Mill in 1851,...
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    Apostles did not have twelve apostles again until April 8, 1841, when Lyman Wight was ordained. Between Johnson's excommunication and then, John E. Page...
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    Christian Dorbandt. In 1851, 20 Mormon families under the leadership of Lyman Wight establish a colony at Hamilton Creek, later to be known as Morman Mill...
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  • a council to decide the presidency. William Smith, John E. Page, and Lyman Wight had previously denounced the proceedings and were not present. John Taylor...
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    Wilhelm Victor Keidel was the county's first doctor. Mormon leader Lyman Wight founded the community of Zodiac. The Legislature formed Gillespie County...
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  • Warner William Weden Elias Wells Alexander Whiteside Andrew W. Whitlock Lyman Wight Eber Wilcox Sylvester B. Wilkinson Frederick G. Williams Alonzo Winchester...
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    about how the building of the house would be financed. George Miller, Lyman Wight, John Snider, and Peter Haws were appointed as the overseers of the project...
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    James, "With Full Authority to Build Up the Kingdom of God on Earth:Lyman Wight on the Council of Fifty", religious studies center, Brigham Young University...
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    Danites had been organized in Daviess County under the leadership of Lyman Wight, who was also a colonel in the state militia. The Danites in Daviess...
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