Reuben Hedlock
Reuben Hedlock (1809-1869) was born in 1809. He married Susan Wheeler in 1827. He married Lydia Fox. He was baptized in 1836. He served with Wilford Woodruff when they were missionaries in England from 1840 to 1841. He died 5 Jul. 1869 in England.
Footnotes
Reuben Hadlock (GQWT-HKT), "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 6 Feb. 2022). Reuben Hedlock, Wilford Woodruff Papers (https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/subjects/reuben-hedlock, accessed 9 Feb. 2022). Reuben Hedlock, The Joseph Smith Papers (https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/person/reuben-hedlock, accessed 17 Jan. 2022).
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Excerpt:Please read the remainder of this communication to thyself President Young I consider that a sens of duty requires me to lay before you certain things which have been a source of much greif & sorrow to me since my arival in England. sSome of the reasons why I have not before opened my mind to you upon the subject has been that I have not wished to trouble your mind with any thing that I could get along without, & it has been much against my will to find fault with my Brother ... -
Excerpt:I soon saw evry exhertion was making to prejudice my mind against Br Clark the spirit against him was of such a Nature that I saw he could never work with Br Hedlock in fact the accusations against him was of such a Nature & urged so [warningly] I was obliged to make it almost my first business to trace up the the accusations against him to the fountain head through all its windings it appeared to me to be like great groanings among the mountains to to bring forth a ... -
Excerpt:8 page his own way without consulting me scarcly in anything unless I draged it out of him, & knowing it was my place & Duty to understand what was going on I enquired into matters untill in several instances he insulted me in the office & manifested much anger in the midst of considerable company & as I would not quarrel with him at least in company I quit the room, when he got mad he would say how much the Twelve were lying up over his labours & he out to have his share of it as ... -
Excerpt:9th He would sooner walk away from me thatn to acquiant me with what he was doing. We have rented a New respectable office for three years he has rented it in his own name He is also renting a part of it in his own name. In fact he does all business in his own name without any regard to me whatever as Funding Emigration Renting rooms & one would think from his actions that he was laying a foundation to speed generations to come upon his own Book in Liverpool He has been to much ... -
Excerpt:10th & taken them into my own possession & the Temple was also. I gave Br ward to understand that I would my name to go as publisher of the Star so it has found a place thare since tI took a decided stand upon the subject they have yealded in a degree But I do not at the present time know the income & out go of the Emigration ^1845^ He attends to that, keeps his own Books He does not consult me upon the subject. if He answers upon the subject it is to some ... -
Excerpt:11th Thomas Wilson remarked if that A man with them in the office if that was the case I was not needed in England their has been a spirit manifest here that they were afraid they would not get pay Enough for what they done taking all these things into consideration I do not think things will go right here untill Br Hedlock is called home & transfers the business over into my hands I shall then know what shape it is in but the way he is doing business ... -
Excerpt:13 I think I have said Enough upon this subject I have let out what was in my heart & I feel a good deal Better Any council you have to give me I will abide by it according to the best of my ability. when men undertake to pull me down here they try to pull you down & when they pull you down they pull the kingdom of God down. But thank God they cant [curse] it. I know that God is with you & I know he is with me in this land & ... -
Excerpt:I have perhaps it is due Elders Hedlock & Ward to say that in the midst of all our affairs their has been no spirit manifest by them that they wanted to appostitize & leave the work, but to keep what power & influence they have & get more if they could even if it was at my expens they had been appointed Agents & presidents over the could Church & they could not get it into their heads that their presidency seased when I came I have written a letter to you about ... -
Excerpt:Please to give my kind regard to my Wife's also to Sister Woodruff & little Susan, to Br. & Sister Clark, Br Hadlock, Ward, Wilson, Holmes, Hardy & Br. Stratton if at Lpool, & all Saints, & may their united, & ffervent prayers be heard in heaven in behalf of my brothren acording to the flesh, that they may be ho't to rejoice in the glorious liberty of ... -
Excerpt:The Saints seem anxious to swell the capitol of the Joint stock company. Brother Hedlock informs me that a Brother Russell of New Brunswick will have a new ship of 650 tons burthen ready for sea by next october, & he will take near half the value of it in stock. So you see the Lord works when we work, & who can hinder, yester day I had a letter from Capt Jones of Wales he ...