Today in Mormon History - May 17

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-- 190 years ago today - May 17, 1836 --

Joseph Smith with his brother Hyrum "brought [to Kirtland] my grandmother, Mary Smith, aged ninety-three years. She had not been baptized, on account of the opposition of Jesse Smith, her eldest son, who has always been an enemy to the work". Mary Smith dies ten days later. (1)
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-- 165 years ago today - May 17, 1861 --

Governor Alfred Cumming left Utah quietly on 17 May 1861. (2)
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-- 140 years ago today - May 17, 1886 --

Journal of Discourses ceases publication in Liverpool, England. In publication since 1853 (32 years, 6 months). (3)
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-- 55 years ago today - May 17, 1971 --

Sidney Rigdon: Baptized by proxy into LDS church 17 May 1971, and priesthood restored to him before proxy endowment 21 May (4)
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1 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com
2 - Utah History Encyclopedia: Civil War, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/
3 - Sherry Baker: Mormon Media History Timeline: 1827-2007, http://byustudies.byu.edu/showTitle.aspx?title=7984
4 - Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 6, Biographical Sketches of General Officers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47, http://amzn.to/origins-power