Benjamin Lynn Clapp

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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/147711442/benjamin-lynn-clapp

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http://www.scribd.com/doc/55819557/Nauvoo-Census-1842-Nauvoo-Civil-... FAMILY OF BENJAMIN LYNN CLAPP AND MARY RACHAEL SHULTS

BENJAMIN LYNN CLAPP

Born 19 Aug 1814, Alabama to Ludwick CLAPP and Margaret Ann LOY. He married

• Mary Rachael SCHULTS.

He was baptized into the Mormon Church in 1835.

On 26 Feb 1836, Benjamin, who was a teacher in the priesthood, was ordained an elder at Tarpon.Calaway, KY. In 1838, he served as a missionary in KY.He moved to MO with the Saints, passing through the persecutions there. He took part in the Battle of Crooked River, then was forced to flee the area with others to avoid imprisonment. In Nauvoo, Benjamin turned in a certificate to the clerk. showing that he was a member in good standing from the Running Water Branch in Perry Co., AL.

He is found on the Hancock County Tax list for 1842. also the 1842 census of Nauvoo. Henry I. YOUNG taught a common school at Benjamin's home from 25 Jul 1842 to 28 Oct 1842. During a political meeting held on 2 Feb 1843, Benjamin spoke out against Joseph and Hyrum, saying they had attempted to take away the rights of the citizens at a late municipal election. Two days later he made a public confession and said he had been wrong. Later that year, he participated in a rescue of the kidnapped Prophet Joseph SMITH. He then went on a mission to AL. where he was shown as the president of a conference held at Cypry, Tuscaloosa, AL in 1844. He was ordained as one of the seven presidents of the seventies on 2 Dec 1845.

Benjamin received his temple endowments in the Nauvoo Temple on 12 Dec 1845. After leaving Nauvoo, Benjamin was in Pottawattamie Co., IA, he then moved to Winter Quarters, where he was on the Municipal High CounciI for awhile, but was released on 26 Nov 1846 because of his position in the seventies presidency. While living in Winter Quarters, he was a frequent speaker at Sacrament meetings, debating other ministers, and instructing the Saints to be faithful in fulfilling their covenants and discharging the duties required of them. He also told them to refrain from every evil habit and taking the name of the Lord in vain.

Benjamin married three additional wives:

• Elvira/Alvira RANDALL in 1846 and
• Ann Bingham THOMAS, both in Nauvoo.

He married

• Ann Christine MORTENSEN on 12 Oct 1856, by whom he had four children.

After arriving in UT, his family is found in the 1850 census, in Salt Lake County, living in two adjacent dwellings. A few years later, he moved to Ephraim, Sanpete. UT. There he had some problems with Bishop Warren S. SNOW. On 7 Apr 1852 when the officers of the Church were presented at General Conference and voted on, Benjamin voiced his opposition. In 1859 he was removed from the seventies, and was excommunicated from the church on 7 Apr 1859. He moved to CA where he died around 1860.

Benjamin's son, Elisha Drown CLAPP, who had been born in 1857, kept a notebook, in which he wrote: "In the early age of this Church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. my father Bengman L.Clapp left the church, and went to California; and left Mother a widow [Ann Christine MORTENSEN] to take care of me and my brother Elijah, we being twins and very sickly. He left a great deal of trouble for her, but she trusted in the Lord and by so doing she was blessed in many ways."

Elisha then tells that his father was a man who held much power and the power of God had been made manifest through him many times, that he had served three missions 'and brought many people into the church. Then Benjamin was "tempted somewhat of the devil and led astray by soldiers coming through and speculating, which was the cause of him going to California.

"Benjamin apparently had been called to administer to a young lady who was possessed by the devil. She was instantly healed. When he returned home, Elisha and Elijah were stricken with the same thing. Benjamin administered to them a number of times, to no avail. When his wife asked him to bring in someone else to administer to them, he told her that if he couldn't do it, nobody else could. Elisha says that is where the devil got the upper hand of Benjamin.

(SEB; NAU1:2 1,147; NJ3;NJ2; NJ1; HS:214,23 1,434,611; MHP: 102,104-5,l 11;AJI: 196-196: HC3: 153; HC5:263; HC6:33 1,338;FWR:211,254; NTE:5; FFU:30; LDS MS 3934 $3; *LDSPH 1700 3760; FHL #889,392 item 4)

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William O. Lewis III, wol3@bellsouth.net Benjamin Lynn Clapp, General Authority Name: Name: http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/w/o/wol3/clappbl1.htm;;

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Database online. Record for Frank Lewis 'Lorenzo' CLAPP

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Database online. Record for William N Clapp

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William O. Lewis III, wol3@bellsouth.net Benjamin Lynn Clapp, General Authority Name: Name: http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/w/o/wol3/clappbl1.htm;;

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Ancestry.com 1860 United States Federal Census [database on-line] Name: Name: rovo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004. Originaldata: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Eighth;;

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1860 Census, California, San Joaquin, Elkhorn

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Database online. Record for Frank Lewis 'Lorenzo' CLAPP

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Ancestry.com Public Member Trees Name: Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;;; @R1@ Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;).

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Database online. Record for Benjamin Lynn Clapp

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Ancestry.com Public Member Trees Name: Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;;; @R1@ Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;).

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Database online. Record for Frank Lewis 'Lorenzo' CLAPP

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Ancestry.com Public Member Trees Name: Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;;; @R1@ Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;).

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Ancestry.com 1860 United States Federal Census Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - 1860 U.S. census, population schedule. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records; @R2@

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Database online. Year: 1860; Census Place: Elkhorn, San Joaquin, California; Roll: ; Page: 980; Image: 366.