| Second president of the British Mission
(1838–1840), brother of Mary Fielding, uncle of Joseph F. Smith. |
| Born |
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March 26, 1797 in Honeydon, Bedfordshire, England |
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| Died |
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December 19, 1863 in Salt Lake County |
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| Father |
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John
Fielding (1759–1836) |
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| Mother |
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Rachel
Ibbotson (1767–1828) |
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| To
Canada |
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1832 Emigrated to Canada with his
sister, Mercy Rachel, in 1832, and farmed in Charleton, nine miles northwest
of Toronto. |
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1841 letter |
| Toronto
study group |
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1834–1836 Toronto study group
with sisters, John and Leonora Taylor, others. |
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Upper
Canada |
| Baptism |
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May 21, 1836 baptized in Black Creek near his
home in Charleton (now a Toronto suburb), by Parley P. Pratt (h) |
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, 52; Canadian foundation, 1; Toronto |
| Teacher |
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Summer 1836 ordained a teacher. |
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Joseph Fielding Diary |
| Kirtland,
England |
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May 1837 Move
to Kirtland >. |
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Joseph Fielding Diary |
| Mission
to England |
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1837–1842 mission to England. |
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| Mission
president |
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1838–1840 mission president, England. |
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| Endowed |
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December 9, 1843 endowed
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Joseph Fielding Diary |
| Council
of Fifty |
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Member, Council of Fifty. |
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William Clayton journals (Smith),
130. |
| Anointed
Quorum |
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Member, Anointed Quorum. |
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Origins, 118, 356n71. |
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Mission to England |
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Mission to England
Family connections |
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In June accompanied Heber
C. Kimball, Orson Hyde, and
others left Kirtland on the first mission to England. The early success
of the mission was due largely to the willingness of Joseph's brother,
Rev. James Fielding, and later his brother-in-law, Rev. Timothy Mathews,
to make their pulpits available to the missionaries <. |
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Men with a mission, 29–40. |
| Mission president |
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Joseph was left in charge of the mission when Heber C. Kimball and Orson
Hyde returned to America in the spring of 1838. By that time there were
nearly one thousand Saints organized in twenty branches throughout the
country. He married one of those Saints, Hannah Greenwood, in June 1838. |
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| 1841 to Nauvoo |
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He was released as mission president when Brigham Young and
other apostles arrived in 1840, but continued to serve as a missionary
until he and Hannah left for the States in 1841 and settled in Nauvoo near
the end of the year. |
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Endowment |
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| 1843 Endowment |
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On December 9, received his endowment in the same
session as William W. Phelps, Levi Richards, Lot Smith, and Cornelius
P. Lott in the office over Joseph's redbrick store <. |
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endowment: WWJ 2:331; [SHOWREF=ampro,
431. |
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Winter Quarters to Utah |
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Winter Quarters
Utah |
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Following the martyrdom, Joseph remained a reliable support
for his widowed sisters, traveling to Winter Quarters with them, building
shelters, and traveling with Mary's family to Utah in 1848. He settled
near Mary in Millcreek, where he spent his final years. |
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| Families |
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Hannah Greenwood (1818–1877)
md. June 11, 1838 |
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Rachel (1837–1914)
Ellen (1841–1906)
Heber (1843–1866)
Joseph Greenwood (1846–1866)
Hyrum Thomas (1847–1847)
Hannah Alice (1849–1857)
Sarah Ann (1851–1938)
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Mary Ann Peake Greenhalgh
(1802–1885) md. January 23, 1846
Ancestral File also has an 1843 marriage to Mary Ann Peak, who was born
about 1805, though christened in 1798. |
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Josephine (b. January 7, 1849) Birth
noted in Joseph Fielding diary entry; not in Ancestral File. |
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1837 letter
Diary: 1832–1837
Diary: 1847–1849
1841 letter
Biographies
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