Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• FSID: KWNP-GNM
• Indvandring: 21 jul. 1847, Utah, USA
• Indvandring: 21 jul. 1847, Utah, USA
• Indvandring: 21 jul. 1847, Utah, USA
• Indvandring: 24 sep. 1848, Utah, USA
• Indvandring: 24 sep. 1848, Utah, USA
• Begravelse: 1868, Kimball-Whitney Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA

Notater:

Kimball, Heber C.
Encyclopedia of Mormonism; See this page in the original 1992 publication.
Author: Kimball, Edward L.
Heber Chase Kimball was First Counselor in the First Presidency of the Church from December 5, 1847, until his death in 1868. One of the foremost men in the early years of the Church, along with the Prophet Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, Heber marched in Zion's Camp in 1834, was ordained one of the original members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1835, and experienced the spiritual manifestations that attended the dedication of the Kirtland Temple in 1836. He served two missions to Great Britain, in 1837-1838 and 1839-1841 (see Missions of the Twelve to the British Isles). Blunt, honest, loyal, and believing, Heber served the struggling Church well when steadfastness was among the most needed qualities. This is reflected in Joseph Smith's saying, "Of the Twelve Apostles chosen in Kirtland,…there have been but two [who have not] lifted their heel against me-namely Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball" (HC 5:412).

Heber C. Kimball was born June 14, 1801, near Sheldon, Vermont, to Solomon F. and Anna Spaulding Kimball. In 1811 the family moved to western New York, where, after scanty schooling, young Heber became a potter. He grew to be a physically impressive man, six feet tall and weighing more than two hundred pounds, barrel-chested, and dark-eyed. He married Vilate Murray in 1822. He, his friend Brigham Young, and their wives joined the Church in 1832, after a two-year period of inquiry, and in 1833 they moved to Church headquarters in Kirtland, Ohio.

In 1837 Elder Kimball received an assignment from the Prophet Joseph Smith to lead a group of missionaries to England. As the ship arrived in Liverpool, Kimball leapt ashore, thus becoming the first Latter-day Saint in Europe. His simplicity and spirit suited the men and women who heard him preach, and within a week nine persons sought baptism. On the morning of the baptism, Elder Kimball and his companions reported they experienced an attack by evil spirits, whom they saw distinctly in their room. Calling on God, they received deliverance from the dark power. Through their efforts groups of hundreds of English converts, commencing in 1840, began sailing to the United States to be with the main body of the Church.

After a year Elder Kimball returned to the United States and to Missouri, where the Saints experienced persecution. While Joseph Smith sat imprisoned in the Liberty Jail (Missouri), Heber and Brigham Young organized the removal of approximately 12,000 LDS refugees to Illinois.

When the Prophet Joseph Smith rejoined the Saints in Illinois and established Nauvoo on the Mississippi River, Elder Kimball prepared to return to England. On the appointed day he and Brigham Young took their leave from sick wives, each with a new baby, and were themselves so ill they had to be lifted into the wagon. Elder Kimball was gone from home for almost two years, until 1841.

Kimball participated in the building of the Nauvoo Temple and received the temple ordinances. Joseph Smith taught him privately that God required him to enter into plural marriage. After initial resistance, Elder Kimball married Sarah Noon. His anguish at keeping this secret from Vilate ended when she told him that the Lord had shown her that plural marriage was right, and that she accepted his participation in it. Kimball married a total of forty-three women (in many cases a caretaking rather than an intimate relationship), and by seventeen of them he had sixty-five children. He perceived his plural marriages as a religious obligation; Vilate accepted the other wives as sisters. Heber C. Kimball's grandson Spencer W. Kimball was President of the Church from 1973 to 1985.

After Joseph Smith's assassination in 1844, Church leadership was carried forth by the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles under its president, Brigham Young. Elder Kimball stood next in leadership. The Saints soon had to abandon their homes in Nauvoo and flee to the Great Basin.

The brutal trek across Iowa, temporary settlement in Winter Quarters, and the pioneer journey of 1847 to the Great Salt Lake Valley occurred under Brigham Young's supervision, with Kimball as his assistant. In December 1847, at Kanesville (Council Bluffs, Iowa), the First Presidency was organized, with Brigham Young as president and Heber C. Kimball and Willard Richards as his counselors. In summer 1848 President Kimball led one of three large companies of Saints to the Salt Lake Valley, where he established his families and supported them by farming, ranching, milling, freighting, and Church and civic administration.

The organization of Utah Territory in 1850 brought hostile federal appointees, but since the population was predominantly LDS, Church leaders had de facto control of the legislature. Heber served as leader of the legislature. Friction between the federally appointed judges and the Latter-day Saints led to U.S. President James Buchanan's sending federal troops to suppress a supposed "rebellion" of the Mormons. President Kimball helped direct the resistance.

A notably outspoken preacher, President Kimball often urged self-sufficiency, resistance to the corrupting influences of the larger society, and faithfulness to the kingdom of God. He frequently used metaphors from his experience as a potter. He prophesied accurately many times, including a prediction that Parley P. Pratt would go on a mission to Toronto, Canada, and find a people prepared for his message. He likewise prophesied that from there the gospel would spread to England. He correctly predicted that Pratt's invalid wife would bear him a son, even though the couple had been childless for ten years (Whitney, p. 135). He also prophesied to hungry pioneers in early 1849 that "in less than one year there will be plenty of clothes and everything that we shall want sold at less than St. Louis prices" (Kimball, 1981, p. 190). That summer, people traveling to the California gold fields dumped their excess supplies and equipment on the market in Salt Lake City and the prophecy was true.

President Kimball also shouldered special responsibility for the British mission and for all temple ordinances. His journals constitute important sources of Church history.

Heber C. Kimball died June 22, 1868, from the effects of a carriage accident, ending thirty-six years of unexcelled, dependable service to the Church.

Heber blev gift med Presendia Lathrop Huntington den 7 nov. 1846 i Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA. Presendia (datter af William Huntington, Jr. og Zina Baker) blev født den 7 sep. 1810 i Watertown, Jefferson, New York, USA; døde den 1 feb. 1892 i Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA; blev begravet den 3 feb. 1892 i Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Solomon blev gift med Anna W. Spaulding den 19 apr. 1796 i Plainfield, Sullivan, New Hampshire, USA. Anna (datter af Charles Cleveland Spaulding og Abigail Gates) blev født den 23 apr. 1767 i Plainfield, Windham, Connecticut, USA; blev døbt den 27 feb. 1807 i Plainfield, Sullivan, New Hampshire, USA; døde den 25 feb. 1825 i Mendon, Monroe, New York, USA; blev begravet den 27 feb. 1825 i Tomlinsons Corners Cemetery, Mendon, Monroe, New York, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Notater:

Since Family Tree does not allow "complete" documents, i.e. with embedded photos, special formatting and footnotes, in Life Sketch or Photos, I have opted to include a lengthy biography (200+ pages) of William, an historical novel based and an historical story about William in his "Photos and Documents."

From The Huntington Family in America A Genealogical Memoir of the Known Descendants of Simon Huntington from 1633-1915 In 1804 he moved with his parents to Watertown, Jefferson County, New York, being one of the first settlers of that county. In 1806, he returned to New Hampshire and married Zina. Soon after his marriage he moved to Watertown, NY where he lived and prospered in temporal blessings until 1811, when he sold out and the following year war was declared with Great Britain, which proved fatal to his prospects and coupled with much sickness in the family reduced them very low in pecuniary circumstances. His services in the army were done with the fife. He was in one battle, that of Sackett's Harbour. In 1816, Providence smiled on him again and about the same time he experienced religion and joined the Presbyterian church. In the winter of 1832-33 he first heard of "Mormonism", read the Book of Mormon, believed it with all his heart and preached it almost every day to his neighbors and everybody he could see or had the privilege to chat with, until 1835, when he and wife with two of their children were baptized by Elder Dutcher. After that his house was a meeting house and a home for all Saints. May 18,1836 he sent two of his children, Dimick and Presidia and their families to Kirkland, waiting himself only to sell out. October 1, 1836, he started and moved to Kirkland with quite a number of saints under the direction of Apostles Orson Pratt and Luke S. Johnson, being ordained an Elder previous to starting. He arrived in Kirkland on the 11th, bought a farm from Jacob Bumb, and paid him three thousand dollars. Of this amount he was defrauded, so that in a little over one year he was compelled to labor by the day for a living. In the breaking up of Kirkland the apostates harassed him with law suits until he saw his children often go to bed crying for bread. For nearly two weeks he lived on greens. His house was a hiding place for Father JosephSmith, Hyrum, Samuel and Don Carlos, while they were trying to escape from the persecutions in Kirkland. The egyptian mummies were also hid in his house for a long time and many of the pursued and persecuted Saints found a retreat there. In Kirkland he received his washing and anointings in the temple and was ordained a High Priest and High Counselor in which office he acted until the Church left Kirkland. He lost $500 in the Kirkland bank. May 21,1838, he started for Far West, Missouri, where he arrived about 2 months later, and, by counsel, moved to Adamondi-Ahman, where he was chosen commissary for the brethren who armed for defense; and after the mob had driven and hemmed in the scattering brethren, he was commissary for all the people of that place and had charge of all the provisions of the town. After the surrender of the Church in Far West, he was foreman of the committee chosen to confer with the committee chosen by the mob. These two committees were representatives of and authorized to transact all business for their respective committees. He was also one of a committee chosen to see to the poor and get them moved out of Missouri, which they did to the complete satisfaction of the whole church, though with no ordinary exertion and remained himself until about the last man and family. His was one of the first families that moved to Nauvoo where he arrived May 14, 1839. About the first day of June his whole family was taken sick and on the 8th his wife died of sickness, caused by hardships and exposure. At this time he suffered for the comforts of life. At a conference held in October, 1839, he was again chosen to the office of High Counselor. August 28,1840, he married Lydia Clisbee. As a member of the High Council he hoped to ay one of the cornerstones of the Nauvoo Temple. He continued a member of the High Council until the expulsion from Nauvoo. In the move from Nauvoo he was appointed captain of a company of fifty wagons which he helped to make, and to fit up for the company but which was subsequently disorganized. He was then appointed a captain of ten in Amasa M Lyman's company until the settlement of Mt Pisgah was located, where he was left to preside over that Stake of Zion. In his place his labors were extreme and unremitting for the good and welfare of the people and the comfort of the sick, of which there were a great many. August 9, 1846, he was taken sick with the chills and fever of which he died. In life he was beloved by all the Saints. His love and zeal for the cause were unsurpassed by any. His judgment was respected and his conduct never questioned; he never had a trial or difficulty with any person in the Church.

William blev gift med Zina Baker den 28 nov. 1805 i Meriden, Sullivan, New Hampshire, USA. Zina (datter af Oliver Baker og Dorcas Dimick) blev født den 2 maj 1786 i Plainfield, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA; døde den 8 jul. 1839 i Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA; blev begravet den 9 jul. 1839 i Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• FSID: LKKM-NLP

Notater:

Meribah Roberts
Found 10 Records, 9 Photos and 6,222,908 Family Trees
Born in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, America on 1741 to Jonathan Roberts and Abiah Belknap. Meribah married James Kimball and had 11 children. She passed away on 1810 in Sheldon, Franklin, Vermount.
Family Members
Parents
Jonathan Roberts
1690-1744
Abiah Belknap
1689-1719
Spouse(s)
James Kimball
1735-1810
Children
Elizabeth Kimball
1761-Unknown
John Kimball
1763-Unknown
Rhonda Kimball
1766-Unknown
Dorothy Kimball
1768-Unknown
Solomon Farnham Kimball
1770-1825
Betty Kimball
1772-Unknown
James Kimball
1744-Unknown
Moses Kimball
1776-1846
Stephen Kimball
1777-Unknown
Cornelia Kimball
1780-Unknown
Jesse Kimball
1782-Unknown

!1) F893122-Bradford V.R.;
2" F6967 pt. 2-V-2p.18 Sheldon Land Records;
3) Archive family group sheet
4) F015182, Vol 2-Plainfield, New Hampshire, Town Records.;
7) 974.7881 M1Y2y - Pioneers of Mendon, New York;
8) F6191 pt 2, Research Notes of B. F. Cummings;
9) HISTORY OF THE KIMBALL FAMILY p. 166, 314;
10) F517178 #7 on film Hazeltine Papers, Hopkinton, New Hampshnire,
11) F584016 Censes of 1925 Dunham, Lower, Canada;
12) 971.6H2t, Eastern Townships of Canada p. 170-1

Charles + Abigail Gates. Abigail (datter af Thomas Gates og Abigail Coit) blev født den 16 mar. 1736 i Plainfield, Windham, Connecticut, USA; døde cirka 1841 i Plainfield, Windham, Connecticut, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• _MILT: Served as a fifer during the American Revolutionary War
• Bopæl: 1757, Tolland, Tolland, Connecticut, USA

William + Presendia Lathrop. Presendia blev født den 30 jan. 1761 i Tolland, Tolland, Connecticut, USA; døde den 20 mar. 1810 i Watertown, Jefferson, New York, USA; blev begravet i 1810 i Huntingtonville, Jefferson, New York, United States. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• Bopæl: 1761, Tolland, Tolland, Connecticut, USA

Oliver blev gift med Dorcas Dimick den 23 mar. 1780 i Tolland, Tolland, Connecticut, USA. Dorcas blev født den 23 sep. 1760 i Tolland, Tolland, Connecticut, USA; døde den 19 okt. 1849 i Plainfield, Sullivan, New Hampshire, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]