Lyman Royal Sherman (22 May 1804 – January or February 1839) was an early leader in the
Latter Day Saint movement, an inaugural member of the
Seven Presidents of the Seventy, and was called to the
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles but died before being informed and ordained.
Biography
Sherman was born in
Monkton, Vermont
Monkton, also known as Monkton Boro, is a town in Addison County, Vermont, United States. The population was 2,079 at the 2020 census.
Geography
Monkton is located in northern Addison County at . It is situated on the eastern edge of the Champ ...
to Elkanah Sherman and Asenath Hulbert. In 1832, he joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and in 1834 was part of
Zion's Camp.
On January 16, 1839,
Joseph Smith, along with
Sidney Rigdon and
Hyrum Smith, wrote
Brigham Young and
Heber C. Kimball to call Sherman and
George A. Smith
George Albert Smith (June 26, 1817 – September 1, 1875) was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement. He served in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and as a member of the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...
to replace
Thomas B. Marsh
Thomas Baldwin Marsh (November 1, 1800 – January 1866) was an early leader in the Latter-day Saint movement and an original member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, who served as the quorum's first president in the Church of the Latter Day ...
and
Orson Hyde, respectively, in the Quorum of the Twelve. The next month, on February 23, Kimball noted that George A. Smith was indeed added to the quorum, but Sherman died shortly after Joseph Smith wrote the letter. Kimball concluded that it was not the will of God for a man to take Hyde's place in the quorum.
On the west side of the Latter Day Saints'
temple in
Kirtland stood a printing office. Enemies of the church were planning to use the printing press in a scheme against Joseph Smith. Sherman heard of the plot, and burned the printing press before it could happen. Winds saved the temple from catching fire.
A section of the
Doctrine and Covenants
The Doctrine and Covenants (sometimes abbreviated and cited as D&C or D. and C.) is a part of the open scriptural canon of several denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement. Originally published in 1835 as Doctrine and Covenants of the Chur ...
is a
revelation received by Smith in response to a query from Sherman about the Lord's will for him.
Sherman died in January or February 1839, in
Far West, Missouri
Far West was a settlement of the Latter Day Saint movement in Caldwell County, Missouri, United States, during the late 1830s. It is recognized as a historic site by the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, added to the register in 1970. It ...
. His widow, Delcena Didamia Johnson,
married Joseph Smith by July 1842.
Footnotes
1804 births
1839 deaths
American Latter Day Saints
Converts to Mormonism
Date of death unknown
Doctrine and Covenants people
Leaders in the Church of Christ (Latter Day Saints)
People from Monkton, Vermont
Presidents of the Seventy (LDS Church)
Religious leaders from Vermont
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