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Heman Hyde (1788–1869)
1834 convert from Freedom, New York. Missionary, 1848 pioneer.
 
 
Born   June 30, 1788 in Strafford, Manchester, Bennington County, Vermont.   PWJS, 677.
Died   June 11, 1869 in Salt Lake City.   PWJS, 677.
Father   James Hyde   FamilySearch™ Pedigree Resource File
Mother   Betty (Betsey, Elizabeth) Pennock   FamilySearch™ Pedigree Resource File
War of 1812   Veteran of the War of 1812.   PWJS, 677.
Baptized   March 11, 1834 baptized by Joseph Smith or one of his companions (Parley Pratt, Freedom Nickerson, perhaps others) in Freedom, Cattaraugus county, New York, soon after son, Heman T. Hyde.   TS 6, no. 17 (Nov. 15, 1845): 1027; HC 2:43.
Joseph and Parley   At Freedom, New York, Joseph and Parley preach several discourses and baptize Heman. His parents are Presbyterians, and his mother, tells Parley:   Parley P. Pratt, 133.
Presbyterian mother distraught … she would much rather have followed him to an earthly grave than to have seen him baptized.   March 10, 1834: "… at eve preacht again to a hous crowded full to overflowing after meting I proposed if any wished to obey if they would make it manifest we would stay to administer at another meeting a young man of the methodist order arose and testified his faith in the fulness of <the> gospel and desired to Be Baptised we Appointed another meting and the next day tuesday 11th held meeting and Baptised Heman hide" Joseph's Ohio Journal in Papers 2:24.
Family baptized, begin Freedom branch Soon afterwards, however, herself, her husband, and the rest of the family, with some thirty or forty others, were all baptized and organized into a branch of the Church—called the Freedom branch—from which nucleus the light spread and souls were gathered into the fold in all the regions round.  
Teacher   April 10, 1834 ordained a teacher in Freedom by Orson Pratt (h1) and John Murdock.   Orson Pratt journals, 39 // ¶ Orson Pratt (h2)
Zion's Camp   Despite PWJS, probably not on Zion’s Camp, 1834. Not listed in HC 2:184 list. He was 46. His 22-year old son son, Heman T. was on the camp.   PWJS, 677.

¶ Wilford Woodruff
1835 mission   May 1835 travels with Aerot Hale and members of the Twelve on their mission to the East.    
Elder   March 17, 1836 meets with "[T]he several quorums" in the House of the Lord, and is approved to be ordained an elder.   Kirtland elders, 15.
Kirtland endowment   March 18, 1836 anointed "in the Lord's house."   Kirtland elders, 11.
Legal minister   June 3, 1836 included in list of "Ministers of the Gospel … whose Licenses were recorded, the preceeding Quarter, in the License Records, in Kirtland, Ohio."   MA 2, no. 9 (June 1836): 335.
Quincy   Fall 1838 moving from Kirtland to Far West, stops in Quincy, Illinois after hearing of violence in Missouri.   Joseph Holbrook autobiography
Nauvoo   Moves to Nauvoo.   PWJS, 677.
Iowa high council   July 21, 1846 appointed to the Pottawattamie high council (west side of the Missouri river)   Journal History, July 21, 1846, qtd. in We'll find, 62n38.
Captain of 50   April 31, 1848 appointed captain of fifty in Brigham's 1848 pioneer company.   HC 7:625.
Salt Lake City  

Member, Salt Lake City 13th Ward.

  Papers 2:556.
 
 
    Family    
Wife   Polly Wyman Tilton
md. 1810.
   
Children   Heman Tilton Hyde, 1812–1842    
    William Hyde, b. Sept. 11, 1818 in York, Livingston, NY   WWJ 7:143.
 
Heman T. Hyde
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