Orson Hyde

Orson Hyde (1805-1878) was born 8 Jan. 1805 in Oxford, New Haven Co., Connecticut. He was the son of Nathan Hyde and Sally Thorpe. He married Marinda Nancy Johnson on 4 Sep. 1834; participated in plural marriage. He was baptized in Oct. 1831. He served as a missionary in England with Wilford Woodruff, and he and Marinda were close friends of Wilford and Phebe Woodruff beginning in Nauvoo, Hancock Co., Illinois. He died 28 Nov. 1878.

Footnotes

Orson Hyde (KWJ8-PD4), "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 6 Feb. 2022). Orson Hyde, Wilford Woodruff Papers (https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/subjects/orson-hyde, accessed 9 Feb. 2022). Orson Hyde, The Joseph Smith Papers (https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/person/orson-hyde, accessed 17 Jan. 2022).

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  • Page 116

    Part of Journal (December 29, 1833 – January 3, 1838)

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    in the house of the Lord assembled together from the the east, west, north & south many with whom I had been intimately acquainted I truly felt to thank God that his promises had been verifyed unto me by giving me a seat & a name within his house & within his walls {better} as of sons & of daughters Their was four Confirmed after the sacrament under the hands of Elder O Hide[.] President J. Smith addressed the congragation & the meeting Closed Spent the night with Elder
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    November 28, 1836 November 29, 1836 November 30, 1836 December 1, 1836
  • Page 61

    Part of Journal (January 1, 1841 – December 31, 1842)

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    committee settle the financial or business matters thereof with Joseph Smith Jun to whom the profits rightly belong. Resolved that Elder Amos Fielding be appointed to superintend fitting out the Saints from Liverpool to America under the instructions of Elder P. P. Pratt Resolved that Brother G. J. Adams go to Bedford & Northampton and labour in that region. Adjourned till 10 o-clock tomorrow A.M Elder Kimball ...
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    April 3, 1841 April 5, 1841
  • Page 62

    Part of Journal (January 1, 1841 – December 31, 1842)

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    Moved by Elder Kimball seconded by Elder Woodruff that the Twelve do business at the Conference as a quorum & call upon the Church or Conference to sanction it. Adjourned till the 6th Inst to meet in general Conference at Carpenters Hall at 10 oclock A.M. O. Hyde Clerk [FIGURE] I wrote a letter to Elder John Taylor, Tailor April 6, 1841 ~ Tuesday CONFERENCE MINUTES The Council of the Twelve assembled at Manchester ...
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    April 6, 1841
  • Page 65

    Part of Journal (January 1, 1841 – December 31, 1842)

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    the officers & members & to the whole Congregation consisting of about seven hundred people, A large fragmen[t] was left for some who were not present, while the cake was passing P. P. Pratt composed the following lines When in far Distant regions As strangers we roam Far away from our Country Our friends and our home When sinking in sorrow Fresh courage we'll take As we think on our friends And remember the CAKE Elder O Hide appealed powerfully to the meeting & covenanted with the ...
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    April 7, 1841
  • Page 71

    Part of Journal (January 1, 1841 – December 31, 1842)

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    I Bought the following Articles 1 Shall £0 14 1 Ditto 14 1 Ditto 6 2 pair of Drawers 9 1 Ditto 3 2 flannel shirts 10 1 box steel pens 6 1 Do 2 1 Do 1 4 Cards of pens 4 1 Doz pen cases 1 1 Inkstand 1 Total £5.15 Sister Elizabeth Ockey presented me with a nice neck scarf And Sister Ann Ockey presented me with a fine silk neck hankerchief & gold pin. I took tea with them. I presented ...
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    April 20, 1841
  • Page 159

    Part of Journal (December 29, 1833 – January 3, 1838)

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    twelve in leaveing New York for England on the 20th day of JUNE AD 1837 to carry glad tidings of salvation to the inhabitants of Europe. Heber C Kimble & Orson Hyde were the first appointed to open the kingdom to England they are the two twelve above spoken of and will leave America on the 20th for that purpose accompanied by five other brethren. May the God of Israel be with them & make them an instrument in his hands of ...
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    June 17, 1837 June 18, 1837 June 19, 1837 June 20, 1837
  • Page 326

    Part of Journal (January 1, 1843 – December 31, 1844)

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    It is true you have been called to suffer much in the cause in which you are engaged but if Judgment bgins at the house of God, babylon will not escape and if their is a fire in a green tree a dry tree will not escape the fire, and their is no people more prepared for the shok that is coming on the earth than than the latter day Saints, for the object we have is to secure blessings beyound the veil in the first resurr- ection this ...
  • Page 17

    Part of Journal (December 29, 1833 – January 3, 1838)

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    April 25th 1834 To travel towards Kirtland and arived there at night on the 25th of Aprail 1834 There for the first time I had a view of our beloved Brother Joseph Smith the Prophet & Seer which God hath raised up in these last days through whom the saints receieve Revelations from time to time. Brother Joseph invited [Text printed between lines of cursive text] I here [for the] first time became acquainted with Elder Milton Holmes who ...
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    April 25, 1834
  • Page 238

    Part of Journal (January 1, 1840 – December 31, 1840)

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    December 18, 1840 ~ Friday Dec 18th [FIGURE] I wrote three letters to Wm Pitt. R Hedlock & Lorenzo Snow. The London Times informs us that the British Flag is begining to be waved for the first time in parts of the Chinease empire. Also that the Jews are restored in Jerrusalem to their[e] own rights agaien, having equal privileges as other nations Also that the remains of Napolitan Bounaparte have been conveyed to Paris in the midst of ...
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    December 18, 1840 December 19, 1840 December 20, 1840
  • Page 24

    Part of Journal (January 1, 1841 – December 31, 1842)

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    We Baptized one in the evening. I perused the London Weekly Dispatch, which gave an account of the wreck of the Packer Ship Garrick of Sandy Hook. Elders Kimble & O Hide, crossed the Atlantic twice in her when they first came to Eng & returned, her tonage was 1010, was a new ship, the paper also spoak of the bad state of affairs in America esspecially in the money market, the Banks being rotten at the core February 7 ...
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    February 7, 1841 February 8, 1841