Latter Day Saints' Messenger and Advocate/Volume 3/Number 4/Conference minutes from Calloway County, Kentucky

Extract from the proceedings of a general conference held on Damond's creek, Calloway County, Kentucky, Sept. 2, 1836.

Elders Present.

President T. B. MARSH,

President D. W. PATTEN,

Councellor [Councilor] GROVES,

Elder WILFORD WOODRUFF,

Elder A. O. SMOOT,

Elder DANIEL CATHCART.

President Marsh was duly called to the chair, and R. Alexander was chosen clerk.

The conference was opened by singing and prayer; after which, the several branches belonging to the Tennessee conference were represented, and it was found that they were all in a thriving condition. Thirteen had been added since the last conference, and but one expelled.

It was motioned, seconded and carried, that Presidents Marsh and Patten write to the Presidents of the seventies requesting 6 faithful laborers to be sent from their Quorums into this part of the country to fill the pressing calls for preaching in these regions.

It was further resolved, that Presidents Marsh and Patten prepare and send a petition to the Editor & Proprietor of the Latter Day Saints' Messenger and Advocate, requesting him to publish in addition to the Messenger, a monthly periodical large enough to contain the letters from the Elders abroad at full length.

The conference adjourned and met pursuant to adjournment at 10 o'clock A. M. Saturday, 3rd, and opened by singing and prayer. It was further resolved, that whereas, Elders Patten, Woodruff and others, are about to leave this region of country, Presidents Patten and Marsh write also, to the Presidency of the Highpriesthood at Kirtland, requesting them to send forth to this region of country, an high priest from their quorum to watch over and keep in order this church in its several branches.

A short address was delivered from the chair, showing the necessity of there being kept by the Tennessee conference, a church record of all names belonging to the several branches of said conference, and also a record of all the proceedings of all courts and conferences held within the bounds of said conference. And that a clerk should be chosen, or appointed, by this conference, to keep the records, and be a standing clerk while the church should remain in this region. And also, that the priests and teachers bring from their several branches, the names of such as had been added since the last conference &c. agre[e]able to the articles and covenants.

Wherefore, J. F. Lane was appointed clerk and ordained to the office of elder. Br. Alexander relinquished the clerk's seat and Br. Lane took it. Also, Benjamin Clapp and Randolph Alexander were ordained to the office of Elder, all under the hands of D. W. Patten. Also Lindsey Brady was ordained to the office of deacon under the hands of priest Isaiah Benton.

In the after part of the day, councellor [councilor] Groves delivered an address on the dispensation of the fulness of times, who was followed by President Marsh on the same subject. On the next day, which was the Sabbath, President Patten preached to a very large and attentive congregation, and during the intermission 5 were baptized under his hands. In the after part of the day, President Marsh delivered an address, and councellor [councilor] Groves administered the sacrament, and confirmed the persons baptized, who received the spirit, after which the conference adjourned sine die.

THOMAS B. MARSH, Ch'n.

JOHNSTON F. LANE, Clerk.