Today in Mormon History - May 30

Today in Mormon History ...

[Plains] Warren Walling Company begins crossing plains (1)
-- 150 years ago - May 30, 1860

Smith, George Albert: Appointed to serve mission to East 30 May 1835. (2)
-- 175 years ago - May 30, 1835

[Joseph Smith] The Carthage court acquits Thomas C. Sharp and others accused of murdering Joseph and Hyrum Smith. (3)
-- 165 years ago - May 30, 1845


1 - Church History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847-1868, Chronological Company List, http://www.lds.org/churchhistory/library/pioneercompanylist-chronological/0,15765,3968-1,00.html
2 - Cook, Lyndon W., The Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith: A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants, Seventy's Mission Bookstore, Provo UT, 1985
3 - Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 7: Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47"

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