Salmon Gee (October 16, 1792 – September 13, 1845) was an early

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leader and member of the Presidency of the Seventy of the

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. Gee was born in Lyme,

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to father, Zopher Gee and mother, Esther Beckwith. He moved to the

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area at age 17. On December 10, 1814, he married Sarah Watson Crane. Together they had ten children. They moved to

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, where Zebedee Coltrin

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Gee in 1832. Seven months later,

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ordained him an elder and Joseph Smith, Jr. appointed him leader of the

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s in Thompson Township. On April 6, 1837, Gee was appointed to fill the vacancy in the Presidency of the Seventy left open when Zebedee Coltrin was transferred to the

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. Sidney Rigdon and

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ordained him a seventy. The Seventies Quorum removed their fellowship from Gee for "neglect of duty" at a meeting in March 1838, although he was never excommunicated. He was dropped from the quorum that May. Gee served as a member of the Kirtland High Council from 1841 to 1844, when he moved to

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, where he died in 1845. He was buried in Nauvoo,

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. Before he died, he gathered his family together and "exhort dthem to faithfulness, advising them also to follow the Church wherever it went." The church restored Gee's full fellowship in the Quorum of Seventy in 1967.''

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'', Vol.4, Appendix 1

References

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