Asahel Albert Lathrop (December 25, 1810January 23, 1893) was one of thousands of 19th-century American Mormon pioneers who is best known today for his involvement on August 6, 1838, in Gallatin Election Day Battle in

Daviess County, Missouri Daviess County is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,430. Its county seat is Gallatin. The county was organized December 29, 1836, from Ray County and named for Major Joseph Hamilton ...

; a voting incident involving Asahel's brother-in-law-, Samuel Brown, the husband of Lydia Marie Lathrop, which led to a full-scale war. A group of armed men forced Asahel A. Lathrop from his home, and held his wife and children prisoner; they later died.Greene, John P (1839), Facts Relative to the Expulsion of the Mormons or Latter Day Saints, from the State of Missouri, under the "Exterminating Order", Cincinnati, Ohio: R. P. Brooks, retrieved December 31, 2006.LeSueur, Stephen C., The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri, University of Missouri Press, 1990.

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Asahel Albert Lathrop is a direct descendant of

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after imprisonment in

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.The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records: Stafford 1719-1850, Tolland 1715-1850

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