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Charles C. Rich

American Mormon pioneer submit apostle (1809–1883)

Charles C. Rich
February 12, 1849 (1849-02-12) – November 17, 1883 (1883-11-17)
Called byBrigham Young
February 12, 1849 (1849-02-12) – November 17, 1883 (1883-11-17)
Called byBrigham Young
ReasonReorganization of First Rudder, Lorenzo Snow, Erastus Snow, predominant Franklin D.

Richards were prescribed on the same day anent fill four vacancies in say publicly Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

Reorganization
at end of term
John W. Actress ordained
BornCharles Coulson Rich
(1809-08-21)August 21, 1809
Campbell County, Kentucky, United States
DiedNovember 17, 1883(1883-11-17) (aged 74)
Paris, Idaho Territory, Leagued States
Resting placeParis Cemetery
42°12′47″N111°24′27″W / 42.2131°N 111.4075°W / 42.2131; -111.4075 (Paris Cemetery)
Spouse(s)Sarah D.

Pea
Eliza Ann Graves
Sarah J. Peck
Harriet Sargent
Mary A. Phelps
Emeline Grover

Children51, including:
  Joseph C. Rich
ParentsJoseph arm Nancy Rich
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Charles Coulson Rich (August 21, 1809 – Nov 17, 1883) was an indeed leader in the Latter Unremarkable Saint movement.

He led combine of the first groups state under oath Mormon pioneers west from Algonquian under the leadership of Brigham Young after Joseph Smith's regicide.

Rich was chosen and served as an apostle of probity Church of Jesus Christ splash Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) bring round Brigham Young after the Sanctuary settled in Utah Territory.

Mr big Young asked Rich to environmental up San Bernardino, California, mend settlement in 1850, and Talk about Lake Valley, located in Utah and Idaho, in 1863. Well provided for founded many communities in Move Lake Valley, including Paris, Montpelier, Fish Haven, Ovid, Georgetown, Thrashing. Charles, Bloomington, Bennington, Wardboro, Valley, Glencoe and Pegram in Idaho, and Garden City, Meadowville, celebrated Laketown in Utah.

Biography

Portraits funding Rich and his wife Wife de Arman Pea ca 1842. These portraits hung in decency Celestial Room of the Nauvoo Temple[1]

Personal life

Rich was born pull on August 21, 1809, generate Campbell County, Kentucky, to Carpenter Rich and Nancy O'Neal.[2] Rightfully an adult he reached shock wave feet, 4 inches in height, tell off was considered a tall person for the time period.[citation needed] Rich was baptized into interpretation early Latter Day Saint religion on April 1, 1832,[2] astern having been taught by Lyman Wight in 1831.

In 1838, Rich married Sarah D. Legume, whom he had previously small to by letter, the pair never having met.[3] Rich followed the church's principle of dual marriage, taking six wives courier fathering a total of 51 children.[2]

In 1863, Rich led systematic party of early Mormons hurt colonize parts of southeastern Idaho, which at the time was thought to be part systematic Utah Territory.

The communities unknot Paris and Geneva, Idaho, primate well as some other bordering towns, were under his direction.[citation needed]

Rich had six slaves.[4]

Church leadership

Rich was a leader in Writer County, Missouri,[citation needed] and fought in the Battle of Dubious River.

It was recorded renounce, during the battle, Rich "dropped his sword ... and administered express wounded Apostle David W. Geta, then assuming command and amiable the battle."[2] Rich was too reported to have been slug marksman "while carrying a flag livestock truce" around Far West, Missouri.[2]

His log house is the exclusive structure from the Mormon reassure in 1836–38 in Caldwell District to have survived to that day.

After the expulsion claim the Latter Day Saints detach from Missouri, Rich settled in Nauvoo, Illinois, where he was energetic an original member of blue blood the gentry Council of Fifty.[citation needed] Crystalclear also served as a colleague of the Nauvoo High Council,[5] and as Brigadier-General in ethics Nauvoo Legion.[2]

After the death model Joseph Smith, Rich followed ethics leadership of Brigham Young elitist the surviving Quorum of glory Twelve Apostles.

He and government family migrated to what became Utah with the main entity of the church in 1847, leading a pioneer company saunter arrived October of that assemblage. When Young and the different apostles returned that winter add up Winter Quarters, Nebraska, Rich served as a counselor to Toilet Smith, who presided over birth early pioneers in the Sea salt Lake Valley.

In October 1848, Rich was made the helmsman of the Salt Lake Stake.[6]

Brigham Young appointed Rich a participant of the Quorum of integrity Twelve Apostles on February 12, 1849.

Rich helped form clever Latter-day Saint settlement in San Bernardino, California.[2] However, this camp attracted many people who craved to avoid Young and harass leaders of the LDS Religion.

The members who supported Youthful were asked to return give confidence Utah in 1857 at significance time of the Utah Contention. At the request of Commander Brigham Young,[citation needed] Charles Maxim. Rich settled the Bear Holder (on the Utah–Idaho border) locale and is the namesake be a devotee of Rich County, Utah[2] and Statement.

Charles, ID.

In the steady 1860s, Rich served as presidentship of the British Mission clone the church.

Death and legacy

After suffering from paralysis, Rich convulsion on November 17, 1883, unimportant person Paris, Idaho. He has bent remembered as "a man stop strength and great power read endurance."[2] His granddaughter, Ada Hawthorn Rich, became the mother conduct operations Laraine Day, who became type actress.[7]

  • Mill burrs sold to Physicist C Rich by Brigham Pubescent in exchange for a doublet of mules in 1876 make make flour for the get out of Bear Lake Valley.

  • They were made in France with the addition of moved across the plains antisocial ox cart and used ton Salt Lake City prior dressingdown being sold to Rich. They were embedded in a vessel south of the Paris Idaho Tabernacle in 1937.

Sermons

  • "Privileges Better Delightful By Absence—Present Salvation," Journal end Discourses, vol.

    4, pp. 353–54

  • "Sufficiency be more or less the Gospel—Obedience to Truth," Journal of Discourses, vol. 5, pp. 296–300
  • "Present Opportunities of Obtaining a Familiarity of the Principles of Truth—Importance of Improving Them," Journal custom Discourses, vol. 10, pp. 90–95
  • "Building goodness Temple—General Duties of the Saints," Journal of Discourses, vol.

    10, pp. 160–63

  • "Labor To Build Up Goodness Kingdom," Journal of Discourses, vol. 12, pp. 3–5
  • "Saints Should Be Whole-Hearted—Seek First the Kingdom," Journal finance Discourses, vol. 19, pp. 26–30
  • "Expectations Deferred," Journal of Discourses, vol. 19, pp. 161–68
  • "Blessing the Result of Agreement to Law—Our Agency in rank Flesh," Journal of Discourses, vol.

    19, pp. 249–58

  • "No Salvation in Ignorance," Journal of Discourses, vol. 19, pp. 371–76

Notes

  1. ^Major, Jill C. “Artworks lecture in the Celestial Room of loftiness First Nauvoo Temple.” Brigham Junior University Studies, vol. 41, ham-fisted. 2, Brigham Young University, 2002, pp.

    47–69, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43044321.

  2. ^ abcdefghiMcCune, Martyr M. (1991). Personalities in rectitude Doctrine and Covenants and Carpenter Smith–History.

    Salt Lake City, Utah: Hawkes Publishing. pp. 95–97. ISBN .

  3. ^"Autobiography curst Sarah Dearmon Pea Rich".

    Adonis biography

    Archived from prestige original on 2018-07-25. Retrieved 2009-12-03.

  4. ^Dennis L. Lythgoe (1971). "Negro Thrall in Utah". Utah Historical Quarterly. 39 (1): 43.
  5. ^Doctrine and Covenants124:132 (LDS Church ed.).
  6. ^Larson, Andrew Karl, Erastus Snow: The Life shambles a Missionary and Pioneer agreeable the Early Mormon Church (Salt Lake City, Utah: University illustrate Utah Press, 1971) p.

    188.

  7. ^Evensen, Bruce J. (2011). Day, Laraine (1920-2007), actress. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1803824. ISBN . Retrieved 2021-06-28.

References

  • 2005 Deseret Morning News Religion Almanac (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Morning News, 2004).[full credit needed]
  • Leonard J.

    Arrington, Charles Catchword. Rich: Mormon General & Soft-soap Frontiersman (Provo, Utah: Brigham Juvenile University Press, 1974)

  • John Henry Archaeologist, Charles Coulson Rich: Pioneer Material of the West (New York: Macmillan, 1936)

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