Zenas H. Gurley, Sr.

Zenas H. Gurley, Sr.

Zenas Hovey Gurley, Sr. (May 29, 1801August 28, 1871) was an important leader in the history of the Latter Day Saint movement. He was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on April 1, 1838 and became an elder soon thereafter. By the death of Joseph Smith, Jr. in 1844 he had been ordained a "seventy." He led a branch of the church in Yellowstone, Wisconsin that affiliated with James J. Strang in the early years after the succession crisis, but he broke with Strang over the issue of plural marriage.

Along with Jason W. Briggs, Gurley became an important early leader of the "New Organization" of the church that developed in the Midwest in the 1850s. In 1853, he was called as an Apostle in the RLDS Church, which is today known as the Community of Christ. Along with William Marks, Gurley ordained Joseph Smith III as president of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1860.

Gurley's son Zenas H. Gurley, Jr. was called as an RLDS Church apostle in 1873.

References

*Inez Smith Davis, "The Story of the Church: A History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and of Its Legal Successor, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints," 12th edition, Herald House: 1981.

External links

* [http://www.geocities.com/scott_norwood/GurleySr.html Who's Who in the Reorganization]


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