Ep 213 – With Useful Studies Store Your Mind

Naked Mormonism Podcast

Bryce Blankenagel

Ldschurch, Christianity, Latterdaysaints, Religion, Ldschurchhistory, Mormons, Religion & Spirituality, Mormonhistory, Bookofmormon, Mormonism, Josephsmith, Mormon

4.7 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, we catch up with a bunch of figures in Nauvoo to see what they’ve been up to as events led to the prophet in Carthage Jail. We start off with discussing Eliza R. Snow, reading excerpts from her Nauvoo journal, conflicts with Emma and the Relief Society at large, who took over her role as scribe for the Relief Society, and tap into a bit of her poetry to convey feelings a journal can’t. The Quorum of Apostles and members of the Council of Fifty have also been very busy. Hingepin Sidney Rigdon was named as VP for Jo’s presidential run while frequently preaching about the Mormon theocracy being the last government the world will ever need. He and 350+ other members of leadership bodies in the church scatter throughout the United States to electioneer for the prophet’s POTUS campaign. Brigham Young even drops by Kirtland and preaches in the Temple to a crowd of apostates! Then we see how Lucy Mack Smith has been lately. She’s battled sickness, survived multiple children, buried her husband, and even hurt her knee dismounting a carriage which caused arthritis to settle in. She tells a candid, yet insulated, version of events leading to Carthage. Then wrap up by reading a portion of the Nauvoo Expositor to talk about Sarah and Maria Lawrence as well as their stolen inheritance.

Links:

Eliza R. Snow Nauvoo Journal
https://byustudies.byu.edu/content/eliza-r-snows-nauvoo-journal

Snow biography
https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/person/eliza-roxcy-snow

Snow poem repository
https://erslexicon.wordpress.com/poems-25-30/

Council of Fifty Minutes
https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/council-of-fifty-minutes-march-1844-january-1846-volume-1-10-march-1844-1-march-1845/98#full-transcript

Manuscript History of Brigham Young
http://www.boap.org/LDS/Early-Saints/MSHBY.html

Nauvoo Relief Society minute book
https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/nauvoo-relief-society-minute-book/1#full-transcript

Lucy Mack Smith’s Biographical Sketches
https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/lucy-mack-smith-history-1844-1845/52#full-transcript

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I am Ryan McKnight.
0:01.5	I'm Kara Santa Maria.
0:03.0	I am Christopher Smith.
0:04.6	Hi, I'm Andrew Torres.
0:06.0	This is Naked Mormonism.
0:09.1	The Serial Mormon History Podcast.
0:15.1	Joseph and Hiram Smith are in Carthage Jail.
0:18.6	They're not going to go anywhere. They're, you know, well. They're not going to go anywhere. And they're, you know,
0:22.5	they're not going to leave there alive anyway. So, you know, we spent last week catching up with
0:27.6	Emma and, you know, kind of seeing her role in the preceding events, which landed her husband
0:31.8	and brother-in-law in jail. So I want to spend a bit of time with some other inferior folks of the timeline to see what they've been up to lately as these tensions brood between the Navajo Mormons and the Carthage anti-Mormans.
0:44.5	Now, when I say inferior on these figures, I just mean that they're perceived as, you know, less influential or they're less crucial to the timeline.
0:51.9	And therefore, they have far less information written about them.
0:55.9	So this episode will kind of be all over the place, but kind of hang in there with me because
0:59.7	there are quite a few threads in the historical timeline to kind of tie together into June of 1844.
1:05.1	So I want to start with one of my personal favorites in Navu history for, let's say, complicated reason.
1:11.6	Eliza R. Snow, she's kind of my personal crush. Yeah, I'm not going to get into it. But
1:16.6	Eliza Snow had a pretty busy 1843 and 44. So Emma and Eliza had some form of altercation.
1:24.3	We talked about this on the episode titled Emma's Stairway to Hell.
1:34.2	Accounts differ, but historians generally agree that some altercation did occur between Emma and Eliza.
1:42.7	Immediately after that interaction, whatever it was, Eliza moved out of the Navu homestead where she was living with her husband and sister wives.
1:49.3	Now, where she moved to was the Morley settlement in Illinois known as Yelrum.
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