Pratt Bennet Joseph Timeline

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April 26, 1831 - Orson Pratt Ordained an Elder by Joseph Smith Jr.'s own hand |
April 1831 - Mission to Colesville, New York, several other missions to New York, Ohio, Missouri, and the Eastern States|
Feb 2, 1832 Ordained a High Priest by Sidney Rigdon and as a High Priest he continued his missions, preaching in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.|
April 26, 1835- Ordained a member of the Quorum of the 12](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_the_Quorum_of_the_Twelve_Apostles_(LDS_Church))|
1839 - 1841- Orson Pratt served mission to British Isles. Produced tract "An Interesting Account of Several Remarkable Visions".14 articles of faith included|

• Orson Pratt served mission to British Isles. Produced tract "An Interesting Account of Several Remarkable Visions".14 articles of faith included

October 27, 1841 - Prescindia's twenty-year-old sister Zina was living in the Joseph Smith home when Elder Henry B. Jacobs married her in March 1841. Joseph: "the Lord had made it known to him that [Zina] was to be his Celestial wife." *Source: "History of Henry Bailey Jacobs." By Ora J. Cannon, page 5-7. also see "Recollections of Zina D. Young" by Mary Brown Firmage) *
11 December 1841 - Prescindia D. Huntington, a faithful Mormon and married woman in Nauvoo, was also a polyandrous wife of Joseph Smith. Prescindia married Norman Buell in 1827 2 sons prior to joining in 1836. --(Mormon Polygamy: A History" by Richard S. Van Wagoner, page 44 and Fawn Brodie "No Man Knows My History" pages 301-302, 437-39)
During the summer of 1841 - shortly after Heber's return from England, he was introduced to the doctrine of plural marriage directly through a startling test... Joseph demanded for himself what to Heber was the unthinkable, his [wife] Vilate. Totally crushed spiritually and emotionally, Heber touched neither food nor water for three days and three nights Heber took Vilate to Joseph. The Prophet wept at this act of faith, devotion, and obedience. Joseph had never intended to take Vilate. It was all a test."- Biography of Heber C. Kimball, "Heber C. Kimball, Mormon Patriarch and Pioneer."
Early 1842 - Sarah M. Kimball, a prominent Nauvoo and Salt Lake City Relief Society leader was also approached by the Prophet in early 1842 despite her solid 1840 marriage to Hiram Kimball --"LDS Biographical Encyclopedia" By Elder Andrew Jensen, 6:232, 1887 (This is Helen Mar Kimball's Mother)
February 1842 - Mary Elizabeth Rollins, already married to non-Mormon Adam Lightner since 11 August 1835, was one of the first women to accept a polyandrous proposal from Joseph Smith. "He was commanded to take me for a wife," --(Lightner, Mary E. Statement. 8 Feb. 1902; Lightner to Emmeline B. Wells, 21 Nov. 1880; Lightner to John R. Young, 25 Jan. 1892. George A. Smith Papers. Special Collections. University of Utah)
April 1842 - Marinda Nancy Johnson, sister of Apostles Luke and Lyman Johnson, married Orson Hyde in 1834. A year before Hyde returned from Jerusalem in 1843, Marinda was sealed to Joseph Smith in April of 1842. -(Andrew Jenson, Church Chronology, August 6, 1844, Nauvoo Sealing Records)
May 11, 1842 - Church leaders announce that John C. Bennett will be disfellowshipped. Orson Pratt refuses to sign the announcement. Pratt's wife Sarah had accused Joseph Smith of trying to seduce her. Joseph had accused John C. Bennett of being the one involved with Sarah Pratt.
Jun 17, 1842 - Heber C. Kimball writes to Parley P. Pratt: "We have organized a Lodge here of Masons since we obtained a Charter. That was in Mar. Since that thare was near two hundred been made masons. Br. Joseph and Sidny [Ridgon] was the first that was Received into the Lodg. All of the twelve apostles have become members Except Orson Pratt. He hangs back. --Letter from Heber C. Kimball to Parley P. Pratt, 17 June 1842http://scottwoodward.org/masonry.html (I can't help but wonder if his wife was selected to be taken because he was not a mason/did not join in on the secret activities of The Order)
Jul 14, 1842 - In a public speech Joseph Smith calls Orson Pratt's wife Sarah "A whore from her mother's breast."-- the Sangamo Journal, (July 29, 1842.)
Sarah had accused Smith of proposing plural marriage to her while her husband Orson was away on a mission
Orson Pratt writes a 'suicide' note: "I am a ruined man! My future prospects are blasted! The testimony upon both sides seems to be equal: The one in direct contradiction to the other . . .
Jul 15, 1842 - Thousands of Nauvoo Mormons search for Orson Pratt after discovering a suicide note
On this same day: The ST. LOUIS BULLETIN publishes Martha Brotherton's account of her invitation to enter into polygamy in Nauvoo with Brigham Young. --St. Louis Bulletin, July 15, 1842, p. 2
Jul 15, 1842 - Joseph Smith Journal- "It was reported early in the morning that Elder Orson Pratt was missing. I caused the Temple hands and the principle men of the city to make a search for him. After which a meeting was called at the Grove, and I gave the public a general outline of John C. Bennett's conduct." --LDS History of the Church 5: 60–61
Jul 17, 1842 - Brigham Young writes to Parley P. Pratt concerning his brother Orson Pratt--Apostle Jebediah M. Grant, Sunday Tabernacle Discourse, March 23, 1856, Journal History quoting the letter.
Jul 17, 1842 - THE WASP EXTRA, a Nauvoo newspaper, accuses John C. Bennett of "adultery, fornication, embryo infanticide and buggery, . . ."
Jul 21, 1842 - Wilford Woodruff writes: "There was a Counsel of the Twelve held for four days with Elder Orson Pratt to labour with him to get him to recall his sayings against Joseph & The Twelve" -- this is cited even on the mormon wiki page, but the journal entry published online only discusses Bennett reprinted in CONFLICT IN THE QUORUM: ORSON PRATT, BRIGHAM YOUNG, JOSEPH SMITH
Jul 29, 1842 - Scandal printed in SANGAMO JOURNAL: "We do not know what course will be pursued by Mr. [Orson] Pratt. If he sinks under the denunciations and schemes of Joe Smith- if he fails to defend the reputation of himself and of the woman he has vowed to protect before high heaven..." full text transcribed: http://www.mombu.com/religion/mormon/t-orson-pratt-defection-1842-prophet-speech-heaven-holy-life-6363945.html)
August 1, 1842 - Times and Seasons 3 : 868–878 publishes affidavits that Sarah Pratt is lying and had an affair with Bennett
August 20, 1842 - Orson Pratt Excommunicated for insubordination, Sarah Pratt for Adultary this removed Pratt (And Hyde, both Orsons) from their seniority status.--Bergera, Gary James (1992). "Seniority in the Twelve: The 1875 Realignment of Orson Pratt". Journal of Mormon History 18 (1): 19–58.
October 1, 1842 - Times and Seasons 3 :939–940 Publishes affidavits that Sarah Pratt lied and had an affair with Bennett.
Orson soon returned to the church and denounced Bennett. "Bro. Orson Pratt is in the church and always has been & has the confidence of Joseph Smith and all good men who know him....As to Bennett or his book [The History of the Saints, 1842] I consider it a little stooping to mention it."
January 20, 1843 - Pratt reinstated to the Quorum of the 12
July, 27 1843 - "I according to Pres. Joseph Smith & council & others, I agreed to stand by Sarah Ann Whitney [sealed to Smith 27 July 1843] as though I was supposed to be her husband and a pretended marriage for the purpose of shielding them from the enemy and for the purpose of bringing out the purposes of God." (Elder Joseph Kingsbury, "History of Joseph Kingsbury Written by His Own Hand," page 5, Utah State Historical Society)
13 May 1844 - Entry in William Law's diary that Joseph proposed to his wife Jane (entry was crossed out later, no reason given) William Law, Cited in Lyndon Cook, William Law, Orem, Utah: Grandin Book Co., 1994, 53.
1886 - Sarah Pratt claimed in an interview that, while in Nauvoo, Illinois, Joseph Smith, Jr. was attracted to her and intended to make her "one of his spiritual wives" while Orson was in England on missionary service
19 February 1854 - Apostle Jedediah M. Grant, second counselor to Brigham Young and father of President Heber J. Grant, sermon addressing Joseph asking men for their wives posted here
Nov 1, 1890 - Prophet Wilford Woodruff, John Mills Whitaker Journal: "The Prophet went to the home of President Taylor, and said to him, 'Brother John, I WANT LEONORA.', "If GOD wants Leonora He can have her... I don't want your wife, I just wanted to know just where you stood."