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Charles Blancher Thompson Time Line

 Part 2--The Energetic Mormon (1835 -1867 )
by Quintin Sharon Thompson
Great grandson of CBT
August 15, 2003

Year Age Events
1835 21 1. Feb-CBT at Kirkland, OH baptized a Mormon-# 1
    2. Summer-CBT preaches “to acquaintances, with but little success.” #9
1836 22 1. Feb. CBT anointed in the House of the Lord, # 9
    2. March-a. Kirtland Temple dedicated, # 8b. CBT receives “the washing of feet at the Solemn Assembly held in the Temple at Kirtland”, OH, #9
    3. Dec 4-CBT marries Elizabeth Jencks, #3 & 9
1837 23 1. CBT organized a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints congregation at Sandusky, OH, # 1 & 9
    2. Mormon bank at Kirtland, OH fails & community breaks up, # 8
1838 24 1. 13 March Joseph Smith joins LDS community Far West, Caldwell County, MO & modifies 1831 tithing, #8
    2. May 18- CBT sees a meteor passing over the Mormon Temple in Kirtland, OH # 9
    3. Summer- CBT & Elizabeth move to Far-West, MO,with the group called “Kirkland Camp” and then later to Adam-ondi-ahem (Davies County), MO, # 9
    4. Governor Boggs of Missouri signs on Oct. 27, 1838 the “Extermination Order” against the Mormons, # 10
(Note: This order was officially rescinded by Governor Christopher S. Bond on June 25, 1976, # 10 )
    5. Due to this order CBT & Elizabeth are “compelled to return to Far-West, in Calwell County”, MO, # 9
1839 25 1. Feb.- CBT & Elizabeth in Quincy, IL, # 9
    2. Amelia Elizabeth born in Illinois, #9 with 1850 MO Fed. Census
    3. Joseph Smith in Liberty jail, Clay County, MO, #8
    4. Joseph Smith is allowed to escape and flees to LDS community in Nauvoo, IL, #8
    5. Spring- CBT “sent by the Twelve on a mission to the state of New York”, # 9
    6. .August-Elizabeth (Jencks) dies, #1 in NY leaving “an infant five months old”= Amelia, #1 & 9
(Note: The time element & U.S. Federal St. Louis, MO Census of 1850 puts Amelia’s birth in Illinois but oral family information says Bath, NY. )
1840 26 1.CBT “--I was among friends, and I continued my labors in the ministry for four years in western New York, # 9
    2. NY US Fed Census- ? (Note:There are 7 Thompsons listed as head of households in Le Roy Township but no CBT. If CBT was in Le Roy during the census, he being a widower, unmarried, & possibly with Amelia (age 2) could have been enumerated in an ‘age category’ within some family.)
    3. June-CBT editor & proprietor of the Le Roy Gazette in Le Roy, Genesee Co.,, NY (Note: “The previous editor of the newspaper had been Cyrus Thompson & it is possible that Charles purchased or inherited the establishment from one of his relatives,# 20)
    4. 22 Oct.--CBT presents seven charges against an elder in front of Quorum at Kirkland, OH. Result: elder fellowship is withdrawn and cut off from Quorum, #17
    5. “---during which time (the four years) I (CBT) baptized about two hundred persons, and Ordained about fifty Elders, Priests, Teachers and Deacons; and organized a conference called the Genesee Conference.”, # 9
1841 27 1. CBT writes book, “Evidences in Proof of the Book of Mormon, # 1 & 9
    2. Jan-CBT debates with David Marks about Mormonism in Attica, NY,#9
    3. Feb-writes letter to Joseph Smith -from Batavia, (County seat of Genesee, NY), #6
1842 28 Sept Joseph Smith gives rules in baptism for the dead, #8
1843 29 1. Doctrine of Polygamy officially instituted by Joseph Smith in Nauvoo, IL, #8
    2. CBT gives up paper in New York “by counsel & direction of Joseph Smith and settles in Macedonia, Hancock County, IL “ # 9
1844 30 1. February- CBT ordained a high priest under the hands of Jacob Chapman, by direction of John Smith (uncle of Joseph Smith), president of the Macedonia Stake in Hancock Co., IL, “At same time Chosen, and Ordained, First Counsellor to the President of the High Priest’s Quorum, in that place”#1 & 9
    2. Some Mormon non-polygamists break away from church, #8
    3. June 27-Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum murdered at Carthage, Hancock Co., IL, # 1, 8
    4. CBT moves “to Nauvoo & united with the High Priest’s Quorum there.” He “was present when the Twelve were authorized, by vote of the church to act in the office of the first presidency, and with all good conscience voted with the church,--”, # 9
    5. CBT “continued in Nauvoo, laboring with my hands to support myself and child.” # 9
1845 31 December-CBT marries Catherine Ann (Houck) in Nauvoo, Hancock Co., IL, # 1
1846 32 1. Jan 28 CBT sealed to spouse #1 (Elizabeth) & #2 (Catherine) at Nauvoo Temple, IL # 13
    2. Feb.- First Mormon exodus from Nauvoo, IL to Utah, # 8
    3. May -Nauvoo Temple finished & dedicated, # 8, 11
    4.. CBT becomes a follower of James Jesse Strang in Voree, WI, over leadership of LDS #1 (Note: Strang later moves to Beaver Island, MI and is fatally shot by one of his followers)
    5. Aug. CBT writes a poem in the Voree Herald “strongly favoring Strang’s claims”, #6
1847 33 1. CBT rejects Strang’s claims, #14, 15, &16
    2. CBT & family move to St. Louis, MO, # 1
    3. CBT Started the church “Jehovah’s Presbytery of Zion”, #1
    4.Aug. 8 Elizabeth Amanda Ida born in St. Louis, MO, #3
1848 34 Jan CBT issues his “Proclamation" in St. Louis, MO--(Namely: CBT “was then authorized to act as agent for Baneemy”. whom he saw in a vision, “ # 9 and ‘the church was rejected of God on June 27, 1844, # 6
1849 35 Aug. 29 David Lee ’Leo’ born in St. Louis, MO, #3
1850 36 U.S. Federal Census in St. Louis, MO : Charles (36, BP NY, Profession: Tailor, Catharine (22,BP PA) Amelia (12, BP Illinois), Eliza and David enumerated, # 2
1851 37 1 Jul -Isabelle born in St Louis, MO #3
1852 38 1. CBT--prints his testimony in his Zion”s Harbinger and Baneemy”s Organ, St. Louis, January 1852, Vol. 2 No. 1
    2. Isabelle dies #3
1853 39 1. 9 April -CBT begins search for location for “School of Preparation” of “Jehovah’s Presbytery of Zion”, # 1& 6
    2. 5 July Charles William born St. Louis, MO, #3
    3. 9 Sept.CBT & family with new printing press leave St. Louis on the steamer El Paso .# 18
    4. 16 Sept CBT & family arrive at Council Bluffs, IA # 18
    5. 4 Nov CBT & family move into newly constructed house at Preparation, IA, #18’ page 4
1854 40 1. CBT says Baneemy, a spirit, gave him authority to regulate and control all the affairs of the colony, both temporal and spiritual, and CBT was to be called Father Ephraim , the veritable Ephraim of the Scriptures #7 & #6
    2. Apr.- CBT appointed the first County Judge (chief officer) of Monona County, IA, #1& 6
    3 Sept.- CBT appointed 1st U.S. postmaster at Preparation, Monona Co., IA #1
    4. CBT founded & printed Preparation’s first newspaper “The Preparation News”# 1and Ephraim’s Messenger #6
    5. Year Monona County, IA organized, #6
1855 41 1. 13 June , CBT tries to quell unrest in Preparation News & Ephraim’s Messenger, #6
    2. 1 August --Some members who signed the June 13 support of CBT withdrew their suppoprt, #6
    3. 10 Sept Osneth ‘Ossie’ Effina born Preparation, Monona Co., IA, # 3 & Alyce (Thompson) Elliot & Bernice (Thompson) Cheyney.
    4. The Hugh Lyle party fails in suit against CBT in court and withdraws from society after a compromise on some property is received, # 6
1856 42 Sept 5- Side wheel Steamship “Arabia’ sinks in the Missouri River up stream from Kansas City, MO with printing type destined for CBT in Iowa #12
1857 43 1. CBT published and printed book The Law of the Covenents” # 1 in Preparation, Monona Co., IA # 6 (Polygamy forbidden # 6)
    2. CBT starts newspaper in Onawa, IA called Onawa Advocate, #1
    3. Sept. 11 Abraham Daniel born Preparation, Monona Co., IA, # 3
    4. CBT starts weekly periodical, Western Nucleus and Democratic Echo #6
    5, CBT publishes 208 page book, Ephraim and Baneemy’s Proclamations, # 15
1858 44 1. Autumn-CBT “The Chief Steward of the Lord” & ‘Assistant’ Guy C. Barnum escape from mob to the protection of the people of the City of Onawa. fifteen miles away, # 6 & #7
    2. CBT’s brother (D.S. Thompson ,# 18, p.14 =Daniel S.Thompson, #19) named in court dispute over property of Preparation.
1860 46 1. 4 June George Washington ‘Waldo’ born in St. Louis, MO, # 1,2
    2. U.S. Federal Census in St Louis, MO. :
Charles ( 46, BP. NY, profession author) Catherine, (32, BP PA)
Eliza A (12, BP PA ?), David, Abraham (age 7 ? & BP MO ?), Charles (6 ,BP MO ?), Asmith (age 4 BP MO), & George (1/12,BP Iowa?) enumerated, #4 (?=QST’s)

(Note:1. Abraham enumerated with Wafer’s family on same page. The Water family must have given what they thought was correct but he was born in Iowa as stated above and not age 7 but 2-1/2 at the time of the census and consistent with the fact that the son of the Wafer’s was 3 years old.=a playmate)

    3. Asmith writing is clear but enumerator should have written Osneth=”Ossie”, her nickname. As ‘Asmith’ she is listed as a ‘male’ and wrong ‘BP’)
    4. St. Louis, MO City Business Directory- C. Blanchard Thompson profession: printer
    5. Aug--CBT publishes Nachashlogian-, the origin of the black and mixed races-defends negro slavery, #6, & 21
1861 47 1. Jan U.S. Civil War begins--South secedes, #10
    2. 12 April South attacks Fort Sumter, South Carolina, #10
    3. June Missouri stays in the Union, #10
1862 48 30 Sept biggest Civil War battle of MO fought 12 miles southwest of Springfield (Wilson’s Creek)-Confederate victory, #10
1863 49 17 Oct Benjamin “Benj” Franklin born in St. Louis, MO, # 1, 2
1864 50 1. 28 Oct Civil War battle in Newton Co., MO-Union victory,#10
    2. Nov -Abraham Lincoln re-elected President, #10
1865 51 1. 11 Jan MO is first slave state to outlaw slavery, #10
    2. April U.S. Civil War ends & Abraham Lincoln is fatally shot, #10 (Note: There were 37 Civil War battles in MO )
    3. 21 Oct Earl Blancher born in Newton County, MO, # 1, 2
1866 52 Supreme Court of Iowa rules that CBT held “in trust” the property at Preparation, Monona Co., IA #6 & #7
1867 53 Lillian Violet born 17 Sept. in Philadelphia, # 3

Bibliography

  1. Biography of Charles Blancher Thompson by George B. Thompson
  2. U.S. Federal Census-1850
  3. ”Branches & Twigs, etc “ by Virginia Mae Thompson
  4. U.S. Federal Census-1860
  5.  (None in part 2)
  6. ”The Story of the Church” by Inez Smith Davis
  7. The History of Western Iowa” published by Western Publishing Company, Sioux City, Iowa 1882
  8. LDS History
  9. Zion’s Harbinger & Baneemy’s Organ, Vol. 2: No. 1: re. CBT’s Testimony
  10. U.S. History
  11. The Kirtland Temple-A Historical Narrative by Roger D. Launius
  12. Arabia Chronicle-Arabia Steamboat Museum- 400 Grand Blvd, Kansas City, MO 64106
  13. Nauvoo file-# 234259-Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register
  14. Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1930, by B.H. Roberts, Vol. 2 Chapter 65 The Men Who Would Be Church Leaders-History Of Factions And Sub-Factions Of The Period.
  15. Divergent Paths of the Restoration by Steven L. Shields
  16. The Mormon Experience by Harrington & Bitton
  17. Kirtland Elders Quorum Record Manuscript, 1836-1870
  18. Manoma County, Iowa, Mormons, by Hon. C. R. Marks, 1898
  19. A Minor Prophet in Iowa by F.R.Aumann, page 259, an article in The Palimsest vol. VIII, Jan- Dec 1927
  20. Transcriber’s comments on CBT’s Evidences in proof of the Book of Mormon in the back of the book on line. See “On page 235" paragraph. http://olivercowdery.com/texts/thom1841.htm#title. or just go to GOOGLE and type in book title.
  21. The Calendar of Publications of CBT by Sherwin Chase, 10 July 1982

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Contributed by Quintin Sharon Thompson QuintinTh@aol.com

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