Isaac Morley, Sr.

I am related to Isacc Morley in two ways: on my father's side, Isaac Morley, Sr is my 9th cousin 6 times removed and also is my ex-husband's third great grandfather. (V Brooks).

Note: Death date changed to reflect gravestone date. -- V Brooks.

He listed his occupation as "farmer" on several census records. However, he served in senior positions of the LDS church, educator, a civic leader, built many structures in every settlement where he lived, and seemed to be a developer of communities. A man of many hats and skills. He was also the Post Master for Sanpete.

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Wikipedia Biographical Summary:

Isaac Morley (March 11, 1786 – June 24, 1865)* was an early member of the Latter Day Saint movement and a contemporary of both Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. He was one of the first converts to Smith's Church of Christ. Morley was present at many of the early events of the Latter Day Saint movement, and served as a church leader in Ohio, Missouri and Utah Territory.

• His gravestone states the year of his death was 1864.

"...Morley was born on March 11, 1786 in Montague, Massachusetts, one of nine children of Thomas E. Morley and Editha Marsh. He served in the War of 1812 from 1812-15, and later held the position of captain in the Ohio militia.

In June 1812, he married Lucy Gunn in Massachusetts. The couple had seven children. Some years after becoming a member of the LDS church in 1830, he practiced plural marriage, taking Leonora Snow (the older sister of Lorenzo and Eliza R. Snow) and Hannah Blakesley (also found as Blaixly or Blakeslee) as his second and third wife in 1844 in Nauvoo, Illinois. Blakesley bore him an additional three children. Other wives included Hannah Knight Libby and Harriet Lucinda Cox, married 1846 in Nauvoo, Hannah Sibley and Nancy Anne Bache (also found as Back)..."

"...Morley emigrated to the Great Salt Lake valley in 1848, and is considered the founder of Manti, Utah..."

"...Morley served as a senator in the general assembly of the provisional State of Deseret. In 1851, 1853 and 1855, he represented Sanpete county in the legislative council of the Utah Territory..."

"...He died on June 24, 1864 in Fairview, Sanpete County, Utah..."

SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Morley

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In the 1830s, not long after the "plates" were found, Isaac (a prosperous farmer) settled a "common stock" Mormon settlement called Morley Settlement in Kirkland, OH near the Chagrin River valley. All things were held in commons and all farming was by united labor forming a Mormon society. Isaac welcome new converts to his farm "promised land" and was quickly overrun by the great influx of people who rushed to be a part of the new society.
As a group they owned farms and mills and had about 8 families working the land.

In Illinois, Isaac Morley was a Justice of the Peace Hancock County, IL. During that time, there was an Anti-Mormon movement by citizens and military encampments whose goal was to drive the Mormons out of their county to Nauvoo, MO. It was called "wolf hunts" where opposing citizens would harm, run off Mormons by burning houses, or destroying their homes/belongings, crops, up to and including killing them. They tried intimidating through mob activities. This group even threatened the governor, saying the governor was just as easily hit as the Mormons.

This persecution began the westward movement. From Nauvoo, Ill, to Pottawattamie County (now Council Bluffs), IA and eventually to Salt Lake, UT. Isaac served on the High Council, as a Patriarch, President and other positions within the LDS church administration.

In 1844, Isaac served as a Col. in the Nauvoo Legion to defend against mob activities to destroy the Saints. . .

In 1852, a new settlement in Juab county, Nephi City contained 20 families. After the first crops of wheat, corn, oat and potatoes were raised and the survey of Nephi was done, the community held a feast and President Isaac Morley was among the dignitaries invited. President Isaac Morley gave remarks according to Deseret News. (The reference to President was related to a position in the church).

In Jan 1856, The Senate of the US approved an act granting Benj. Johnson and Isaac Morley the right of controlling the district of Summit Creek and Weber Valley for timber/herding and use under the church's incorporation and free from taxation. Much of Utah was assigned to the church in this way to develop and settle the territory.

The son of Thos. E. Morley, Isaac served his country in the War of 1812 and in June of 1812 he married Lucy Gunn.

When Oliver Cowdery and companions passed through Ohio in 1830 Isaac was converted and he was ordained a High Priest June 3, 1831, by Lyman Wight, and as a counselor to Bishop Partridge. This office he held until the death of Partridge in 1840. He was also appointed by revelation to travel to Missouri with Ezra Booth, "preaching by the way."

In 1835, Isaac traveled to the East on a mission with Partridge. On their return to Kirtland the Prophet Joseph wrote: The word of the Lord came to me, saying: "Behold I am well pleased with my servant Isaac Morley and my servant Edward Partridge, because of the integrity of their hearts in laboring in my vineyard..."

He attended the dedication of the Kirtland Temple and went to Missouri where he helped to locate Far Wesy. On Nov. 7, 1837, he was ordained Patriarch of Far West and remained at Far West until the infamous extermination order and was one of those taken and marched to Richmond to await trial.

He located in Illinois near Lima, Hancock county; naming the settlement Yelrome (some have suggested Yelrom). The fall of 1845 his property was burned by a mob, and he was driven to Nauvoo, where he remained until the exodus.

At Winter Quarters he buried Lucy and in 1848 he emigrated to the Valley. In 1849 he settled Sanpete valley. The winter was very severe and the food was barely sufficient.

The last decade of his life he devoted himself to his calling as a Patriarch, conferring blessings upon thousands.

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• Immigration: Sep 24 1848 - Utah, United States
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Kirtland Temple

KIRTLAND CAMP. After the glorious manifestation in Kirtland in 1836 followed a great apostasy which affected every quorum in the Church, and which became so general and bitter in 1837 that the lives and property of those who remained faithful were exposed to the greatest danger. Consequently many of the leading men, including Joseph Smith, Sidney Rigdon and Brigham Young, found it necessary to leave Kirtland quietly and journey to Missouri, where the saints at that time were building up Far West and other settlements which had been designated as gathering places for the saints. After the departure of the Prophet, the desire to migrate to Missouri became general among those who had kept the faith in Kirtland, and on the 6th of March, 1838, the Seventies assembled in the temple for the purpose of devising means of removing their quorum thither according to a revelation which had been given on the subject. At that time there were only two quorums of Seventy in the Church, numbering about 150 men. On March 10, 1838, it was made manifest by vision and prophecy that the Seventies should go to Missouri in a camp, pitching their tents by the way. On the 13th they with others, adopted a constitution and laws to govern them on their journey, which was signed by 175 of the brethren. The privilege was given to anyone to go even if they did not belong to the Seventies, provided they would abide by the constitution. Elders James Foster, Zeta Pulsipher, Joseph Young, Henry Harriman, Josiah Butterfield, Benjamin Wilber and Elias Smith were appointed to act as commissioners to lead the camp, which was divided into companies of tens with a captain over each. Elias Smith was chosen clerk and historian and Jonathan H. Hale treasurer. On Thursday, July 5th, the company met about a quarter of a mile south of the temple and pitched their tents in the form of a hollow square. On Saturday, July 6, 1838, at noon, the brethren struck their tents and began to move toward the south, and in thirty minutes the entire camp was in motion. It consisted of 515 souls, namely, 249 males and 266 females. They had 27 tents, 59 wagons, 97 horses, 22 oxen, 69 cows and one bull. Jonathan Dunham acted as engineer. Continuing the journey the camp traveled via Aurora (Portage Co.), Talmadge, Akorn, Chippawa (Wayne Co.), Mohecan (Ashland Co.), Mifflin, Springfield, Mansfield (Richland Co.), Grand Prairie, Burlington, Dayton, Montgomery and Eton, all in Ohio; Richmond, Centerville, Jacksonburg, Germantown, Cambridge, Dublin, Lewisville, Ogden, Graysville, Knightstown, Charlottsville, Portland, Jackson, Greenfield, Indianapolis, Bridgeport, Plainfield, Guilport, Belleville, Stylesville, Mount Vernon, Mount Meridian, Putnamsville, Manhattan, Pleasant Garden, and Terre Haute, all in Indiana; Pilot Grove, Independence, Springfield, Jacksonville, Brussels (Phillips Ferry), in Illinois, and across Illinois and the Mississippi River into Louisiana, Pike Co., Mo. Thence they traveled via Paris, Huntsville (Randolph Co.), Keytesville (Chariton Co.), and Chilicothes to Far West, where they arrived Oct. 2, 1838. Here they encamped on the public square directly south and close by the excavation of the Lord’s House, and here friends greeted friends in the name of the Lord. Isaac Morley, Patriarch in Far West, furnished food for the camp. The next day (Oct. 3rd) the camp continued its journey to Ambrosia Creek, and the next day (Oct. 4th) arrived in Adam-ondi-Ahman, Daviess Co., Missouri, their destination. They at once pitched their tents about sunset when one of the brethren living in the place proclaimed with a loud voice: “Brethren, your long and tedious journey is now ended. You are on the public square of Adam-ondi-Ahman, where Adam blessed his posterity when they rose up and called him Michael, the Prince, the Archangel, and he being filled with the Holy Ghost predicted what should befall his posterity to the latest generation.” The Kirtland Camp arrived when persecution was raging against the saints in Missouri, and a month later the saints at Adam-ondi-Ahman and other places were forced to leave the vicinity and seek refuge in Far West. (“Historical Record,” Vol. 7, pp. 593 to 603.)

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Liberty

LIBERTY, the county seat of Clay County, Missouri, was the home of a number of Latter-day Saints after their expulsion by mob violence from Jackson County, Mo., in 1833. The people of Clay County for a time received the exiles with hospitality and permitted them to take possession of vacant cabins and other shelters. Many of these refugees also found employment on farms in the vicinity, the women, in many instances, acting as domestics or school teachers. Bishop Edward Partridge, Elders Wm. W. Phelps, Isaac Morley, John Corrill, John Whitmer and other leading brethren lived at or near Liberty for a time and Algernon Sidney Gilbert had a store there. From Liberty, as headquarters, these brethren addressed letters to Gov. Daniel Dunkley and other officials of Missouri and even to the president of the United States, pleading for a restitution of their property and rights in Jackson County

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Lincolnshire Conference

LIMA, situated in Lima township, Adams Co., Illinois, is just over the south line of Hancock County, and about 25 miles in a straight line south of Nauvoo. Lima was a neighborhood in which quite a number of saints resided from 1839 to 1846; most of them, however, located northeast of Lima in the extreme south end of Hancock County in what is now (1930) Walker Township, on and around a townsite which had been surveyed and named Yelrome. This little town, situated 2 1/2 miles northeast of Lima, was also called Morley’s Settlement, thus named in honor of Isaac Morley, the presiding Church officer in the locality. A stake organization embracing the saints in Lima and vicinity (both in Adams and Hancock counties) was organized Oct. 22, 1840, with Isaac Morley as president and Gardner Snow as Bishop. At a conference held at Lima, Oct. 23, 1842, the branch was represented with 424 members. Yelrome, or Morley’s Settlement, was nearly all burned out by the mobocrats in the fall of 1845, and the saints were all compelled to leave the following year. In 1855 a new town called Tioga was laid out on the old townsite, which in 1930 consisted of an unimportant village. The north part of the Lima Stake or Morley Settlement, which lies within the boundaries of Hancock County, Illinois, was also known as the Bear Creek Settlement by the saints in 1845.

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Manti

Manti was settled in November, 1849, by Isaac Morley, Seth Taft, Charles Shumway and many others, under the direction of Pres. Brigham Young. It was the fourth town founded by Latter-day Saints in the Rocky Mountains, only Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Provo antedating it. The first settlers struggled against the cold and some of them became discouraged and desired to move away, but when the emigration of saints from the three Scandinavian countries began to pour into Utah, these people from the north, who were inured to a cold, rigid climate, were encouraged to settle in Sanpete County, which many of them did, and under their frugality and determination Sanpete Valley in due time became what was termed the “granary of Utah.” During the Walker War in 1853–1854, and the Black Hawk War in 1865–1867, Manti, like other towns in Sanpete Valley, suffered considerably from Indian depredations, but was never vacated on that account. During the Black Hawk War, which really had its origin in Manti through some trouble between the whites and Indians in April, 1865, Peter Ludvigsen was killed by Indians, south of Manti, April 10, 1865.

Isaac Morley was the first presiding Elder of Manti, taking charge of both ecclesiastical and secular affairs. He, being a Book of Mormon student, suggested the name of Manti for the new settlement. Brother Morley was succeeded in 1851 by John Lowry, who was succeeded in 1855 by Warren Stone Snow, who in 1861 was succeeded by Andrew J. Moffitt, who in 1874 was succeeded by John B. Maiben, who presided until July 4, 1877, when Manti was divided into two wards, namely, the Manti South and the Manti North wards. Later, another ward called the Manti Center Ward was organized.

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Ohio

Ohio was the third state of the Union which became the scene of missionary operations on the part of the Latter-day Saints. In October, 1830, Elders Oliver Cowdery, Parley P. Pratt, Peter Whitmer, jun., and Richard Ziba Peterson, called by special revelation to labor among the Lamanites, passed through Ohio as they journeyed westward. They called on Sidney Rigdon, pastor of the Baptist Church at Mentor, Geauga Co., and after preaching there baptized him and several members of his congregation. About the same time, Isaac Morley, John Murdock and Lyman Wight, all later prominent in the Church, were baptized in Ohio. By the end of the year 1830, 150 members of the Church in Ohio were reported.

Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830 - 1930, B. H. Roberts
Comprehensive History of the Church, Volume 1
Chapter 19 The First Mission--The Lamanites (American Indians)-- The Coming Of Sidney Rigdon

During the two or three weeks the Lamanite mission remained in Kirtland and vicinity they baptized one hundred and twenty-seven souls; also they ordained to the ministry, Sidney Rigdon, Isaac Morley, John Murdock, Lyman Wight, and others; they also reported their success to the Prophet by letter, and he sent John Whitmer to preside at Kirtland. On the arrival of Elder Whitmer, the Lamanite mission, adding Dr. Frederick G. Williams to their number, continued its journey westward.

Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830 - 1930, B. H. Roberts
Comprehensive History of the Church, Volume 1
Chapter 26 The Expulsion Of The Saints From Jackson County, Missouri --Forewarnings Of Danger--Charges Of The Old Settlers Against The Saints--Refutation Of The Charges

The question of the presiding authority in Zion was a vexed one for some time. There seemed to be a general understanding that Bishop Partridge was the presiding authority; still when certain high priests and elders who had been appointed to travel and preach to the world came up to Zion they, in some instances, assumed to set in order the branches of the church, not then understanding the virtue and power of appointment in the priesthood. This led to some confusion, in consequence of which a council of high priests was called for the 26th of March. This council reverted to the instructions given at the solemn assembly of the church held the previous year, on the occasion of the Prophet's visit among them, and they determined to follow the plan then advised, viz, that the seven high priests who were sent from Kirtland to build up Zion, viz, Oliver Cowdery, W. W. Phelps, John Whitmer, Algernon Sidney Gilbert, Bishop Edward Partridge, and his two counselors, Isaac Morley and John Corrill, should stand at the head of affairs in Zion, and, with the consent of the respective branches, should appoint presiding elders over each; of these branches there were now ten.

Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830 - 1930, B. H. Roberts
Comprehensive History of the Church, Volume 1
Chapter 26 The Expulsion Of The Saints From Jackson County, Missouri --Forewarnings Of Danger--Charges Of The Old Settlers Against The Saints--Refutation Of The Charges

The committee called upon Edward Partridge, A. S. Gilbert, John Corrill, Isaac Morley, John Whitmer, and W. W. Phelps, and demanded that they cease publishing the Star and close the printing office; and that, as the presiding elders of the "Mormon" church, they agree to move out of the county forthwith. Three months were asked for by these brethren in which to consider the proposition, and to give them time to counsel with the church authorities in Ohio; as closing a printing office and removing twelve hundred people from their homes was a work of no small moment. But this time was denied them. They asked for ten days; but that was not granted; fifteen minutes only was allowed them in which to decide. At this the conference broke up, and the mob returned to the courthouse and reported to the meeting that they had called upon the "Mormon" leaders and that they refused to give a direct answer, but asked for time to consider the propositions and to counsel with their brethren in Ohio. The meeting then resolved that the printing office be razed to the ground, and the type and press destroyed.

Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830 - 1930, B. H. Roberts
Comprehensive History of the Church, Volume 1
Chapter 27 The Expulsion Of The Saints From Jackson County, Missouri --The Mob's Brutal Threat--The Saints' Appeal To Governor Dunklin--The Eviction Of The Saints From Jackson County--"Falling Stars" Of 1833

The leading elders seeing their own lives, and the property and lives of those over whom they presided in jeopardy, resolved to offer themselves as a ransom for the church--willing to be scourged, or even put to death if that would satisfy their tormentors, and stop their inhuman cruelties. The men who thus offered their own lives for the lives of their friends were:

John Corrill,
John Whitmer,
W.W. Phelps,
A.S. Gilbert,
Edward Partridge,
Isaac Morley.

This did not appeal to the mob leaders. With brutal imprecations they told these men that not only they, but every man, woman and child would be whipped or scourged until they consented to leave the county, as the "old settlers" had decreed that the "Mormons" should leave the county, or they "or the Mormons must die."

The presiding brethren, finding that there was no alternative but for them to leave speedily or witness innocent blood shed by fiends incarnate, concluded to leave Jackson county. A new committee was selected by the mob to confer with the brethren, and the following agreement was entered into:

The leading elders with their families were to move from the county by the first of January following; and to use their influence to induce all their brethren to leave as soon as possible, one-half by the first of January, 1834, and the remainder by April, 1834. They were also to use all the means in their power to stop any more of their brethren moving into the county; and also to use their influence to prevent the saints then en route for Missouri settling permanently in Jackson county, but for these men on the way they were to be permitted to make temporary arrangements for shelter until a new location was agreed upon by the society. John Corrill and A. S. Gilbert were to be allowed to remain as general agents to settle up the business of the church, so long as necessity required. Gilbert, Whitney & Co, were to be permitted to sell out their merchandise then on hand, but no more was to be imported. The Evening and Morning Star was not again to be published, nor a press established by any member of the church in the county. Edward Partridge and W. W. Phelps were to be allowed to pass to and from the county to wind up their business affairs, provided they moved their families from the county by the first of January following. On the part of the mob, the committee pledged themselves to use all their influence to prevent any violence being used against the saints, so long as the foregoing stipulations were complied with on the part of the church.

Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830 - 1930, B. H. Roberts
Comprehensive History of the Church, Volume 1
Chapter 32 The Peaceful Exodus From Clay County--Creation Of Caldwell And Daviess Counties For "Mormon" Settlement--Adam-Ondi-Ahman-- The Founding Of Far West--Internal Difficulties--The Arrival Of Kirtland Camp

"The Kirtland camp arrived in Far West from Kirtland. I went in company with Sidney Rigdon, Hyrum Smith, Isaac Morley and George W. Robinson, and met them some miles out, and escorted them into the city, where they encamped on the public square directly south, and close by the excavation for the Lord's house. Here friends greeted friends in the name of the Lord. Isaac Morley, patriarch at Far West, furnished a beef for the camp. President Rigdon provided a supper for the sick, and the brethren provided for them like men of God, for they were hungry, having eaten but little for several days, and having traveled eleven miles this day; eight hundred and sixty miles from Kirtland, the way the camp traveled."

Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830 - 1930, B. H. Roberts
Comprehensive History of the Church, Volume 1
Chapter 39 Retribution: Was It Meted Out To Missouri

6. This refusal of Governor Dunklin to reinstate the saints on their lands in Jackson county was a severe blow to the hopes of Zion's camp and the scattered saints. From the time of their expulsion from Jackson county the governor repeatedly said that the exiles had a right to be reinstated upon their lands, and had promised that he would call out the militia of the state to reinstate them whenever they were ready and willing to return. In his communication to Messrs, W. W. Phelps, Morley, et al., under date of Feb. 4, 1834 (see History of the Church, Period I, vol. i, p. 476) he said in answer to their petition to be reinstated: "One of your requests needs no evidence to support the right to have it granted; it is that your people be put in possession of their homes, from which they have been expelled. But what may be the duty of the executive after that, will depend upon contingencies." Even a few days before his interview with Messrs. Hyde and Pratt, in his letter to Colonel J. Thornton, under date of June 6th, he had said: "A more clear and indisputable right does not exist, than that of the Mormon people, who were expelled from their homes in Jackson county, to return and live on their lands and if they cannot be persuaded as a matter of policy to give up that right, or to qualify it, my course, as the chief executive officer of the state: is a plain one. The Constitution of the United States declares, that the citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states. Then we cannot interdict any people, who have a political franchise in the United States, from immigrating to this state, nor from choosing what part of the state they will settle in, provided they do not trespass on the property rights of others." The governor's letter to Colonel Thornton is given at length in History of the Church, Period I, vol. ii, p. 85-86. In the face of this and other utterances the position now assumed by Governor Dunklin was a manifestation of weakness truly lamentable.

Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830 - 1930, B. H. Roberts
Comprehensive History of the Church, Volume 2
Chapter 67 Repeal Of The Nauvoo Charter--The Temple Capstone-- Mob Violence And House-Burning--The Patience Of Saints

Seeing then the continued prosperity of Nauvoo and her citizens, the people in the immediate vicinity and in the surrounding counties again commenced hostilities, if, indeed, it may be said that they had ever ceased from them. Early in September, 1845, mobbing the scattered families of the saints began in earnest. A meeting was held by anti-"Mormons" near what was called the "Morley Settlement," to devise means of getting rid of the saints settled there. During the meeting guns were fired at the house where it was being held, and the assault charged upon the saints, though it was done by some of the mob's own party--that they might have an excuse for their meditated acts of violence upon the people of Nauvoo. Such was the general belief at the time; and Governor Ford in his History of Illinois, speaking of this circumstance, says:

"In the fall of 1845, the anti-Mormons of Lima and Green Plains, held a meeting to devise means for the expulsion of the Mormons from their neighborhood. They appointed some persons of their own number to fire a few shots at the house where they were assembled; but to do it in such a way as to hurt none who attended the meeting. The meeting was held, the house was fired at, but so as to hurt no one; and the anti-Mormons suddenly breaking up their meeting, rode all over the country spreading the dire alarm, that the Mormons had commenced the work of massacre and death."

An attack was made upon the Morley Settlement, and on the eleventh of the month--September, 1845--though the burnings began on the 10th, twenty-nine houses were burned down, while their occupants were driven into the
bushes, where men, women, and children laid drenched with rain through the night, anxiously awaiting the breaking of day.

Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830 - 1930, B. H. Roberts
Comprehensive History of the Church, Volume 2
Chapter 69 The Church Authorities Planning The Western Movement

4. Resolutions of Warsaw meeting, adopted also at Carthage meeting, see Warsaw Signal of the 19th of June, 1844. Resolutions are published in History of the Church, period I, vol. vi, pp. 462-466. For arrangements for cooperation of Carthage-Warsaw forces with Missouri mobs in attack upon Nauvoo, see affidavit of Thomas G. Wilson, Isaac Morley, et al. (Ibid, pp. 480-482).

Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830 - 1930, B. H. Roberts
Comprehensive History of the Church, Volume 3
Chapter 77 The Founding Of "Winter Quarters"--Preparations For Completing The March Westward

At first the city was divided into thirteen wards with a bishopric appointed to preside over each, with instructions to look after both the spiritual and temporal welfare of the people, to suggest industrial activities, and look to the maintenance of the sanitary conditions so needful to the health of the community. Before the winter set in, the number of wards increased to twenty-two. A high council was also selected for Winter Quarters which was in this case authorized to exercise the functions both of an ecclesiastical high council, and also a municipal council. Such a council was given also to the camps at Pisgah, Garden Grove, Kanesville (Council Bluffs), Council Point, and also at Bishop Miller's camp L' Eau qui Coule, or Running Water River, about one hundred and fifty miles northwest of Winter Quarters. The nature of the duties of these high councils may be learned from the instructions to Father Morley, the president of the one when installed at Kanesville: "The council was instructed to oversee and guard the conduct of the saints, and counsel them that the laws of God and good order are not infringed. * * * It will be wisdom and necessary to establish schools for the education of children during the coming winter in this region, and we wish you to see that this is done."

Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830 - 1930, B. H. Roberts
Comprehensive History of the Church, Volume 3
Chapter 91 The "State Of Deseret"--Colonizing--Achievements--An Instructive Experiment In Self-Government

In October, 1849, a company of brethren under the leadership of Isaac Morley left the Salt Lake colony to settle in San Pete valley, sometimes called San Pitch valley--variations of the same name borne by a Utah Indian chief in that region (sometimes written Sanpete). The sending of this colony to San Pete was in fulfillment of the promise made to Walker, the Utah chief, that settlers would be sent into his country in "six moons" or "maybe sooner," from the time of the peace smoke in June, to teach his people the white man's way of living. The place of location was about one hundred miles south of Salt Lake City, and certainly was a bold step in colonization, since it was so far removed from the main colony, and in the very heart of the Indian country, and among the most war-like bands of the Utahs. The settlement was visited by President Young in August, 1850, when the site for a city was selected and surveyed by William Lemon. The plat shows 110 blocks, each 26 rods square, the streets six rods wide. The town thus laid out was named Manti, a Book of Mormon name for an ancient Nephite city. The city was given a charter of incorporation on the 6th of February, 1851, by act of the legislature of "Deseret." Other prosperous settlements soon sprang up in other parts of the San Pete valley.

Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830 - 1930, B. H. Roberts
Comprehensive History of the Church, Volume 3
Chapter 91 The "State Of Deseret"--Colonizing--Achievements--An Instructive Experiment In Self-Government

B. H. Roberts, Comprehensive History of the Church, Vol.3, Ch.91, p.494
Twenty-four silver greys, led by Isaac Morley, patriarch, each having a staff, painted red on the upper part, and a branch of white ribbon fastened at the top, one of them carrying the flag with the stars and stripes, and the inscription--

Liberty and Truth.

10. President Young's account of the incident is as follows: "Addison Pratt received his endowments on Ensign Hill on the 21st, the place being consecrated for the purpose. Myself and Elders Isaac Morley, P. P. Pratt, L. Snow, E. Snow, C. C. Rich and F. D. Richards, Levi W. Hancock, Henry Harriman and J. M. Grant being present. President H. C. Kimball, Bishop N. K. Whitney and Elder John Taylor came after the ordinances were attended to. Elders C. C. Rich and Addison Pratt were blessed by all. President Kimball being mouth." (History of Brigham Young, Ms., 1849, p. 107). Thus a new sanctity was given to this prominent peak, "in the side of the mountain" group, which overlooks Salt Lake City from the north. A very fine view of this now sacred mountain in the engraving of Great Salt Lake valley from the painting by Mr. Culmer, is published in this volume. The mount is on the upper right hand of the engraving.

Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830 - 1930, B. H. Roberts
Comprehensive History of the Church, Volume 3
Chapter 93 The First Clash Between United States "Foreign" Appointees And The Church Authorities

17. Morley's company numbered 224 souls, and they arrived at their place of settlement the 22nd of November, 1849. At first the settlers were not very well pleased with the location; but as they became acquainted with the timber, water, and grazing resources they became better satisfied. (History of Brigham Young, Ms., November. 1849, p. 161). In President Young's first mention of Morley's company of settlers for San Pete valley, he mentions it as consisting of "about thirty brethren," (Ibid, p. 159). The company was afterwards enlarged, and in the company of 224, women and children were counted as well as men. Bancroft twice states that Morley settled San Pete county in 1848, (History of Utah, p. 303 and 313), which is beyond question a mistake.

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Lyman, Amasa Mason

Wight, Lyman, a member of the Council of Twelve Apostles from 1841 to 1849, was the son of Levi Wight and Sarah Corbon and was born May 9, 1796, in the township of Fairfield, Herkimer county, New York. He served the Republic in the war of 1812-15 with Great Britain. He united with Isaac Morley and others in forming a society in Kirtland, Ohio, conducted on the common stock principle, being one phase in the rise and progress of the Campbellite Church. He was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Oliver Cowdery in 1830, and was soon afterwards ordained to the office of an Elder

There, in November, 1833, we next find the subject of our sketch—still the Bishop and acknowledged head of the Church in Zion—faithfully but fruitlessly endeavoring to obtain for his people a redress of grievances. He resided in Clay county until the fall of 1836, but some time during the three years went on a mission to the Eastern States, whence returning he visited Kirtland in the latter part of October, 1835. While there, on Saturday, Nov. 7th, the word of the Lord came to the Prophet, saying: "Behold, I am well [p.221] pleased with my servant Isaac Morley, and my servant Edward Partridge, because of the integrity of their hearts in laboring in my vineyard for the salvation of the souls of men. Verily, I say unto you, their sins are forgiven them; therefore say unto them, in my name, that it is my will that they should tarry for a little season, and attend the school and also the solemn assembly for a wise purpose in me. Even so. Amen."

From Winter Quarters in the spring of 1847, two of his sons, Horace K. and Orson K., went west with the Pioneers. He himself remained where his services were most needed, having charge in conjunction with Isaac Morley, of emigrational matters on the frontier.

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