On this day in Mormon History
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-- 180 years ago today - Nov 16, 1845 --
[Hosea Stout]
.... met the police and there was informed that Br Edmund Durfee had been shot dead by the mob on Bear Creek
The mob had set some straw on fire which would communicate with his barn & he on discovering the fire ran in company with some other brethren to put it out and was fired upon by the mob who concealed in the darkness one ball went through his breast and he died in a few moments. He had been driven into the City by the mob during their house burning in September last & had gone down there in company with some other brethren to take care of his grain and thus fell a martyr to his religion
I went to see. He was in a heart rending condition all steeped in his gore and his numerous family all weeping around him. The scene is one not to be forgotten. He was one of the oldes[t] in the church having been in the church almost from its rise and had passed through all the persecutions & vicissitudes of the Church & was a faithful Brother. (1)
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-- 140 years ago today - Nov 16, 1885 --
[Wilford Woodruff]
.... sat up untill midnight reading Revelations, visions & Dreams & talking of the signs of the times. (2)
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-- 115 years ago today - Nov 16, 1910; Wednesday --
[Apostle Rudger Clawson]
"... [it is] the obligation resting upon the elders to carry the gospel to the white race and perform ordinances for the ancestors of the white race. If a negro has faith in the Gospel, repents of his sins and applies ... for baptism, he cannot be denied this precious blessing. ... [The] progeny of a white man who mingles his seed with that of a negro, are to be regarded as negroes." (3)
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-- 50 years ago today - Nov 16, 1975 --
The Paris, France Stake was created. This was the first Stake created in France. (4)
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1 - Diaries of Hosea Stout
2 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
3 - Rudger Clawson, letter to Brigham A. Hendricks, October 25, 1910, LDS Archives, in Charles W. Penrose, Diary
4 - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, United Kingdom, "On This Day," https://www.lds.org.uk/show_oda.php
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