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The Peter Whitmer Log Home: Cradle of Mormonism
… The Whitmer log home was a house of refuge for Joseph Smith and … sanctuary at the Peter Whitmer home in Fayette, New York. David Whitmer came down to Harmony and provided … the point of completion. [6] The Prophet found “Mr[.] Whitmer’s family very anxious concerning the work, and very …
Elizabeth Ann Whitmer Cowdery: A Historical Reflection of Her Life
… Portrait of Elizabeth Ann Whitmer Cowdery, wife of Oliver Cowdery. This painting is … Pennsylvania to New York around 1808, so Elizabeth Ann Whitmer’s family was well settled and relatively prosperous … shared here in the words of Helen Van Cleave Blankmeyer, David Whitmer’s great-granddaughter: When Peter [Whitmer Sr.] …
"A History of All the Important Things" (D&C 69:3)
… In March 1831, John Whitmer "was appointed by the voice of the Elders" in … (Courtesy of Church History Library, Salt Lake City.) John Whitmer’s tenure as church historian began inauspiciously and … families near Fayette. There, through his younger brother David and future brother-in-law Oliver Cowdery, John was …
The Bottom Falls Out
… Peck claimed that the leadership of Phelps, John Whitmer, Edward Partridge, and John Corrill “had gained … with the two most senior apostles—Thomas B. Marsh and David W. Patten, who resided in Far West. The break in good … some other lands in their own names.” [14] In Phelps’s and Whitmer’s minds, they would use the profits to pay for the …
The Road through Palmyra
… (2 Nephi 27:12). Thus, Martin Harris, Oliver Cowdery, and David Whitmer also had to converge within reasonable proximity to … Whitmer, left Pennsylvania for New York in 1809. The Whitmers settled with other Pennsylvanian Germans in Fayette, …
Appendix 3
… On 10 November 1825, Hiram Page married Catherine Whitmer, the daughter of Peter Whitmer Sr. and Mary Musselman … to use a seer stone came as no surprise. According to David Whitmer, this was at the same period that Joseph Smith … after the Church was organized. Oliver Cowdery and the Whitmers began to challenge Joseph Smith about a detail …
Fayette and the Establishment of the Church
… originally dependent upon his relationship with the Peter Whitmer Sr. family, whom he met in June 1829. While … of Latter-day Saints. It took very little time before the Whitmers began reporting miracles amongst each other. An angel apparently assisted David Whitmer, who drove his wagon well over one hundred …
Searching the Archives for the Location
… [4] “A License Liberty Power & Authority,” for John Whitmer, 9 June 1830 . This license states that John Whitmer … the geographic relationship between branches. Adapted from David H. Burr, "Map of the State of New-York and the … assert the same possibility (he never mentioned the Whitmers, at a time when they had all left the Church and …
The Testimonies of the Book of Mormon Witnesses
… the primary witnesses—Martin Harris, Oliver Cowdery, and David Whitmer—received their designation by revelation. Harris was … finish the translation at the home of Peter Whitmer Sr., David’s father. David agreed, and in late May or early June …
The Eleven Witnesses
… As the translation neared completion, Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer, along with Martin Harris, who had come from Palmyra to the Whitmer’s Fayette, New York, home to check the translation’s …
