Joseph Warthen (abt. 1811 - 1852)

Born about 1 Dec 1811 in Jersey Township, Licking, Ohio, United States

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Died 28 Apr 1852 at about age 40 in Provo, Utah, Utah Territory, United States

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Joseph became a member of the LDS Church between 1830 - 1848.

Joseph Warthen was a Latter Day Saint pioneer.

Biography

Joseph was born in 1811 in Ohio, United States.

Church/Temple Ordinances:

-Baptism in August, 1838 (Reference: Family Group Sheet-Self)

-Endowment at the Temple in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States on January 20, 1846 (Reference: Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register 1845-46; ‘ Family Group Sheet-Self; Temple Index Bureau)

He passed away in 1852 in the Utah Territory, United States.

Joseph WARTHEN joined the LDS (Mormon) Church about the year 1831 in Ohio, although his exact baptism date, location, and circumstances are unknown. He met his wife, Lutitia SHEARER, in Pike County, Illinois and they were married there March 14, 1841. They moved to Nauvoo, Illinois where he owned a meat market and livery stable and was an ordinance worker in the Nauvoo Endowment House. He was also one of the guards of the city, and went into hiding from the mob after Joseph Smith was killed. Joseph and Lutitia came with pioneers to the Salt Lake Valley in 1850, and soon moved to Provo, where Joseph again owned a meat market and livery stable.

Family stories say that by 1852 Joseph was fed up with all the moves ordered by Brigham Young, who after they arrived in Utah had asked the Warthens to move to Provo, then asked them to move again, to southern Utah. Apparently words were exchanged between the two men. Joseph decided to relocate to California where his brother Albert (Alban Jr.) lived. Before he could get ready and depart, he was murdered by an unknown assailant in Provo April 28, 1852. There is a marker for him in the Springville Cemetery with his wife Lutitia, but he is not buried there; he was perhaps buried at the old "Temple Hill" Cemetery in Provo, where BYU's Maeser Building now stands.

Sources

• 1850 Census, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory
• Membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints 1830-1848, Volume XLVII, WIN—YOC Compiled by Susan Ward Easton Black, Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1988. https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE5800000
• LDS Pioneer Overland Travel 1847-1868 web site: https://history.lds.org/overlandtravel/pioneers/56486/joseph-warthen
• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MCSX-S5J : 12 April 2016), Brigham Worthen in household of Joseph Worthen, Great Salt Lake county, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States; citing family 1, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/52700930/joseph-warthen