John Wells Hess (1824 - 1903) Profile

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First Presidency missionary calls and recommendations 1877-1918

First Presidency missionary calls and recommendations 1877-1918, February 6, 1902.

First Presidency missionary calls and recommendations 1877-1918, September 12, 1902.

First Presidency missionary calls and recommendations 1877-1918, September 30, 1902.

First Presidency missionary calls and recommendations 1877-1918, October 9, 1895.

First Presidency missionary calls and recommendations 1877-1918, March 8, 1902.

First Presidency missionary calls and recommendations 1877-1918, November 10, 1902.

First Presidency missionary calls and recommendations 1877-1918, November 29, 1902.

First Presidency missionary calls and recommendations 1877-1918, January 21, 1902.

First Presidency missionary calls and recommendations 1877-1918, September 23, 1902.

First Presidency missionary calls and recommendations 1877-1918, December 29, 1902.

First Presidency missionary calls and recommendations 1877-1918.

Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959

Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959, Vol. 1, Page 13, Line 535.

Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959.

Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959, Vol. 2, Page 14, Line 535.

Autobiography and journal of John W. Hess, circa 1887-1895, 8-9

Autobiography and journal of John W. Hess, circa 1887-1895, 8-9.

About the 15th of April, 1847, we started due north for Fort Laramine [Laramie], three hundred miles distant, on the California road, at which place we expected to find or hear of the Pioneer Company that was expected to fit out and go to find a location for the Saints but on our way we were met by Amasa Lyman and others who had come from the Pioneers' Camp. This was a happy meeting, and to get news of our loved ones greatly relieved our anxieties, as we then learned that the Camp was ahead of us, led by President Brigham Young, and he led by revelation. So we pushed on with fresh courage and finally struck their trail about two weeks ahead of us. We followed their trail, but did not overtake them as we expected to.



The pioneers reached Salt Lake Valley July 24th, and the Detachment on the 28th of July, 1847, and on the same day we were discharged from the service of the United States, and I became a free man once more.



I feel that the year’s service described above, is one of the noblest and grandest acts of my life, for the reason that Israel was on the alter of sacrifice, and the “Mormon Battalion”, of which I was a member, went as the “Ram in the Thicket”, and Israel was saved.

Transcript for Autobiography and journal of John W. Hess, circa 1887-1895, 8-9

David Hess statement in Autobiography and journal of John W. Hess, circa 1887-1895

David Hess statement in Autobiography and journal of John W. Hess, circa 1887-1895.

My brother, John W. [Hess], who had been a volunteer in the Mormon Battalion, a company of United States troops, made up principally of Mormons, organized for the purpose of serving in the War with Mexico, and to accompany General Stephen Kearney on his expedition to California, started, with others of the Battalion in the Spring of '47, from Pueblo, Colorado, for Salt Lake, where he was mustered out of service. He and his companions overtook a company of the Saints under Apostle Amasa M. Lyman, and reached the Valley with them, just a few days after the arrival of the original 144 pioneers under Brigham Young, who arrived there July 24, 1847.

Transcript for David Hess statement in Autobiography and journal of John W. Hess, circa 1887-1895

"Events of the Month," Improvement Era

"Events of the Month," Improvement Era, February 1904.

"Events of the Month," Improvement Era.

Hayes, Alma, "A History of Patriarch Alma Hayes," [1]

Hayes, Alma, "A History of Patriarch Alma Hayes," [1].

<xhtml:p xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">In 1852 my uncle John W. Hess, took Nephi and I into his care and brought us across the plains to Utah. We walked barefooted and bareheaded all the way from the Mississippi River to Provo, with the exception of the few times when we were permitted to ride in the wagons as we crossed the streams. Being of a tender age of six and my brother only eight, we found the night a welcome peace from the long exhausting walk of the day.</xhtml:p>

Transcript for Hayes, Alma, "A History of Patriarch Alma Hayes," [1]

Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 23

Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 23.

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