| Early convert, one of first seven elders, mission to the Lamanites with Oliver Cowdery, Peter Whitmer, Jr.,
and Parley P. Pratt (1830–1831), sheriff of Hangtown, California. |
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Richard Ziba Peterson, birth date
unknown. |
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| Died |
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Between January and June 1849 in Placerville,
Eldorado County, California. |
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| Baptized |
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April 18, 1830 is baptized by Oliver Cowdery. |
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| Elder |
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June 9, 1830 is licensed as an elder with his brothers David, John, and Peter Jr. and Samuel H. Smith. With Joseph and Oliver as the first two, this brings the number of elders in the Church to seven. |
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Minutes
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| Lamanite
mission |
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October [17], 1830 is appointed
to accompany Oliver Cowdery, Peter Whitmer Jr., and Parley P. Pratt
on the mission to the Lamanites on Missouri western borders. |
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Covenants of the Lamanite Missionaries
¶ D&C
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| Kirtland |
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October 29, 1830 Lamanite missionaries
arrive in the Kirtland area and baptize 130 before departing around November
20. |
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Parley
Pratt numbered the baptisms at 127. Parley P. Pratt, 52. |
| Independence |
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Early January 1830 arrives in Independence,
Missouri, and immediately finds employment. |
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JS revelations,
92n91. |
| Preaches
to the Indians |
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April 8, 1831 accompanies Peter Whitmer
Jr. across the Missouri River to preach to the Indians. |
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| Lafayette
county with Oliver |
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April 1831 accompanies Oliver
Cowdery to preach in Lafayette County, Missouri. |
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July 14, 1831 Joseph and company arrive in Independence. |
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July 17, 1831 (Sunday) seven elders (Joseph, Oliver, Martin, Ziba, W. W. Phelps, Joseph Coe, and Joshua Lewis) pray to know who should preach to the Indians that day. Joseph receives a revelation that Oliver should open the meeting in prayer, W. W. Phelps preach, and Ziba and Joseph Coe bear witness. Further, "in time, ye should
take unto you wives of the Lamanites and Nephites, that their posterity
may become white, delightsome and Just, for even now their females are
more virtuous than the gentiles." |
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JS revelations, 374–376 // Source |
| Chastised |
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[August 1 or 2, 1831:]
Let that which has been bestowed upon Ziba, be taken from him;
And let him stand as a member in the church, and labor with his own hands,
with the brethren until he is sufficiently chastened for all his sins,
for he confesseth them not, and he thinketh to hide them. |
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BC 59:74–75 // ¶ D&C
58:60.
Ziba and Oliver Cowdery were guilty of "similar conduct." ¶ Ezra
Booth Letters (7). While engaged to Elizabeth Ann Whitmer in New
York, Oliver promised to marry another in Kirtland. ¶ Ezra
Booth Letters (8–9) |
| Confesses |
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August 4, 1831 confesses his transgressions "which was satisfactory to
the Church as approved by unanimous vote." |
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Minutes of August 4, 1831 |
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August 11, 1831 marries Rebecca Hooper. |
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| Reordained |
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October 2, 1832 is reordained an elder
by Lyman Wight (after a suspension of more than a year). |
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Minutes
of October 2, 1832 |
| Buffetings
of Satan |
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By June 25, 1833 is "delivered
over to buffetings of Satan, in the name of the Lord, that he may learn
not to transgress the commandments of God" |
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HC
1:367. |
| To
California |
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May 3, 1848 leaves Lafayette County,
Missouri for California. |
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| Hangtown |
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November 1848 arrives in the mining
town later known as Hangtown. |
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| Sheriff |
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1848–1849 is sheriff of Hangtown
(later known as Placerville). |
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Family |
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| Wife |
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Rebecca Hooper, b. 1809 in Indiana;
md. August 11, 1831;
d. April 2, 1896 in Yountville, Napa County, California. |
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| Children |
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Emily
Charles
Cynthia
Cornelius
Mary
Thomas
A. S. (female)
George Washington
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All born in Missouri. |
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