13 Facts About Zera Pulsipher

Zera Pulsipher was a First Seven Presidents of the Seventy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Zera Pulsipher was an active missionary who baptized Wilford Woodruff into the LDS Church.

Zera Pulsipher came from a heritage of New England settlers and patriots, including a father and grandfather who fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Zera Pulsipher spent much of his childhood working on his parents' farm.

Zera Pulsipher married Mary Randall in 1810 and they had a daughter together.

Zera Pulsipher married Mary Brown a few years later and they raised a large family together.

The Zera Pulsipher family was introduced to the Latter Day Saint church while living in Onondaga County, New York, and Zera Pulsipher was baptized on January 11,1832, by missionary Jared Carter.

Zera Pulsipher helped settle Southern Utah in his later years.

In each of these areas, Zera Pulsipher provided leadership including helping to locate the settlement of Garden Grove, Iowa; leading a company of 100 to Utah; serving as a city counselor in Salt Lake City for a number of years; and presiding over the settlement of Hebron, Utah, from 1863 to 1869.

Zera Pulsipher misused the sealing authority by performing two unauthorized polygamous marriages for William Bailey during the years 1856 and 1861, and was brought to answer before the First Presidency on April 12,1862.

At the meeting, Zera Pulsipher was instructed to be rebaptized, released as one of the Seven Presidents of the Seventy, and was given the option to be ordained a high priest.

Zera Pulsipher was later ordained a patriarch, and died in Hebron, Utah, in early 1872 as a member in full fellowship in the church.

Zera Pulsipher married four wives over the course of his life and had 17 children:.