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Yearsley, David D.
Biography
3 Mar. 1808–Oct. 1849. Merchant. Born in Thornbury Township, Chester Co., Pennsylvania. Son of Nathan Yearsley and Elizabeth Worrall. Married Mary Ann Hoopes, 4 Sept. 1830. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by JS, 22 July 1841, in Nauvoo, Hancock Co., Illinois. Resident of West Whiteland Township, Chester Co., 1842. Issued church membership certificate, 23 Mar. 1843, in Chester Co. Moved to Nauvoo, Hancock Co., Illinois, by 5 Sept. 1843. Ordained an elder, by 5 Sept. 1843. Merchant in JS’s red brick store in Nauvoo, and later operated a store on Mulholland Street in Nauvoo. Signed petition to U.S. Congress for wrongs committed against Latter-day Saints in Missouri, 28 Nov. 1843, at Nauvoo. Admitted to Council of Fifty, 26 Mar. 1844. Served mission with Edson Whipple to Pennsylvania to campaign for JS as candidate for U.S. president, May–Nov. 1844. Ordained a seventy, by 24 Dec. 1844. Member of Fourteenth Quorum of the Seventy, in Nauvoo. Moved to Winter Quarters, unorganized U.S. territory (later in Omaha, Douglas Co., Nebraska), Feb. 1846. Died in Pottawattamie Co., Iowa.
Links
papers
- Account, 1 September 1844–September 1846 [ Coolidge Administrator of the Estate of JS ]
- Appendix 4: Council of Fifty, Roll, 22 April 1845–27 December 1846
- Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 1, 10 March 1844–1 March 1845
- Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 2, 1 March–6 May 1845
- Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 3, 6 May 1845–13 January 1846
- History Draft [1 January–21 June 1844]
- History Draft [1 January–30 June 1842]
- History, 1838–1856, volume E-1 [1 July 1843–30 April 1844]
- History, 1838–1856, volume F-1 [1 May 1844–8 August 1844]
- Introduction to JS Guardian of Maria Lawrence et al., Babbitt Guardian of James Lawrence et al. v. William Law et al., and Maria Lawrence et al. v. Coolidge Administrator of the Estate of JS
- Introduction to Joseph Smith’s Nauvoo Store
- Journal, December 1842–June 1844; Book 3, 15 July 1843–29 February 1844
- Journal, December 1842–June 1844; Book 4, 1 March–22 June 1844
- License Record Book
- List of Members, Council of Fifty, May 1844
- List of Members, Council of Fifty, probably between 25 April and 3 May 1844
- Memorial to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 28 November 1843
- Minutes and Discourse, 18 April 1844
- Minutes and Discourses, 11 April 1844
- Minutes, 25 April 1844
- Minutes, 26 March 1844
- Minutes, 5 April 1844
- Petition from Benjamin Warrington and Others, circa 29 December 1843
- Petition from George W. Crouse and Others, circa 9 March 1844
- Petition from Samuel Bent and Others, 12 December 1844
- Proposed Plan for a Moot Organization and Congress, 6 February 1844
- Testimonies, 12 June 1844 [ State of Illinois v. JS for Riot on Habeas Corpus ]
- The Book of the Law of the Lord, Book A
- The Book of the Law of the Lord, Book B
- Trustees Land Book B, 4 August 1842–8 December 1845
- Gender
- Male