[Joseph Smith] [Joseph Smith] -1 August Leads Zions Camp expedition to Missouri; returns.. (1)
-- 1834 May 5
[Joseph Smith] Joseph and volunteers later known as Zion's Camp leave Kirtland. Heber's Zion's Camp (2)
-- 5 May 1834
[Lucy Mack Smith] Zion's Camp, with a maximum of 204 men, leaves Kirtland. It reaches Missouri, about 900 miles away, on 3 July. The men are attacked by cholera on 24 June, and Joseph Jr. disbands the camp on 25 June. Fourteen die before the outbreak ends on 28 June, including Lucy's nephew Jesse Johnson Smith, son of Asael Smith Jr., who dies 1 July 1834. (3)
-- 1834 May 5
[Lucy Mack Smith] Joseph Jr. leaves as leader of Zions Camp. (4)
-- May 6, 1834
[Joseph Smith] Streetsborough, Ohio. Continuing his trek with Zions Camp, Joseph Smith went from Streetborough to New Portage, Ohio. (5)
-- 1834 May 6
[Joseph Smith] Joseph arrives at New Portage with a hundred volunteers. Heber's Zion's Camp ; Orson Pratt journals, 40. (2)
-- May 7, 1834
[Joseph Smith] New Portage, Ohio. Joseph Smith and the Zions Camp brethren prepared for their journey to Missouri. (5)
-- 1834 May 7
[Joseph Smith] The brethren put their money into a general fund. Heber's Zion's Camp (2)
-- 1834 8 May
Zion's Camp began its march from Ohio to Missouri. (6)
-- May 8, 1834
[Joseph Smith] Chippewa, Ohio. Joseph Smith continued on the Zions Camp march to Missouri. (5)
[Joseph Smith] Joseph leads Zions Camp out of Kirtland to Missouri. (7)
-- 1834 May 8
[Joseph Smith] Camp is divided into companies of twelve. (Orson Pratt says "about 13 each" and adds, " behold the presence of the Lord was with us by day and by night and his Angel went before us to prepare the way." Heber's Zion's Camp ; Orson Pratt journals, 40. (2)
-- May 9, 1834
[Joseph Smith] Chippewa, Ohio. Continuing with Zions Camp, Joseph Smith went from Chippewa to Wooster, Ohio. (5)
Footnotes:
1 - http://josephsmithpapers.org/TimelineOfEvents.htm
2 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/c/1834_zc.phtml
3 - Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, Edited by Lavina Fielding Anderson, 2001, Signature Books
4 - History of Joseph Smith by His Mother: Revised and Enhanced by Scot Facer Proctor Maurine Jensen Proctor
5 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
6 - http://www.lds.net/forums/scripture-study-forum/12108-church-chronology-1800-2000-part-1-a.html#post214550
7 - http://www.prophetjosephsmith.org/joseph_smith_timeline
Clair Barrus
