Granville Hedrick
Granville Hedrick (September 2, 1814 – August 22, 1881) was a leader in the Latter Day Saint movement after the 1844 succession crisis. In 1863, Hedrick became the founding leader of the Church of Christ (Temple Lot), which is one of many churches that claim to be a continuation of the Church of Christ founded by Joseph Smith in 1830.
Latter Day Saint church membership
In 1843 at Woodford County, Illinois, Hedrick was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Hervey Green, a missionary for the church. Green also ordained Hedrick to the priesthood office of elder shortly after he was baptized. Soon after his baptism, he became dissatisfied with the church and moved to Galena to work in the lead mines.
After
Hedrick traveled to Nauvoo, Illinois, to join the body of Latter Day Saints led by Brigham Young. However, he considered the conditions in Nauvoo dangerous and volatile at the time, and instead settled in Crow Creek, Illinois under the spiritual leadership of Gladden Bishop.
Leadership of unaffiliated branches
By the late 1850s,
In June 1857, Hedrick's branch and Latter Day Saints from other unaffiliated branches gathered for a joint conference. The conference was attended by John E. Page, one of the men who had been an apostle of the church during Joseph Smith's leadership of the church. Following the conference, Page became a supporter of these unaffiliated branches of Latter Day Saints and they continued to gather together for conferences of what they felt was the continuing remnant of the true Church of Christ.
At a May 1863 conference of these branches, Page ordained Hedrick, David Judy, Jedediah Owen, and Adna C. Haldeman to the
Revelations
Within one month of his ordination in mid-July, 1863, Hedrick began to produce
Move to Jackson County, Missouri
On April 24, 1864, Hedrick produced a revelation
Hedrick died at Independence and was buried at the "Hedrick Cemetery" about three miles (5 km) northeast of the Temple Lot. His widow, Eliza Ann Jones Hedrick, died in Independence on April 6, 1910,[5] and their son James A. Hedrick, who had served as the church's "General Secretary,"[6] died in Independence, age 60, on April 22, 1926.[7]
See also
References
- ^ page 641, History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day saints, 1805-1890, Volume 3 By Joseph Smith, Heman Conoman Smith, (RLDS), 1908.
- ^ "Reclaiming the Temple Lot in the Center Place of Zion" by R. Jean Addams, "A paper presented at The 2009 CESNUR Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 11–13, 2009"
- ^ "Reclaiming the Temple Lot in the Center Place of Zion" by R. Jean Addams, "A paper presented at The 2009 CESNUR Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 11–13, 2009"
- ^ LDS D&C 58:57
- ^ Missouri Death Certificates 1910-1959
- ^ An outline history of the Church of Christ (Temple Lot) Bert C. Flint, 1953.
- ^ Missouri Death Certificates 1910-1959
External links
- "History of the Church of Christ" at the Wayback Machine (archived April 21, 2008), from the Church of Christ (Temple Lot) website
- Granville Hedrick at Find a Grave
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