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of Missouri signs on Oct. 27, 1838 the “Extermination Order” against the Mormons, # 10 (Note: This order was officially rescinded by Governor Christopher S. Bond on June 25, 1976, # 10 )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