---
title: Times and Seasons
description: Issues of 1842 to 1843.
authors:
  - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
editors:
  - Ebenezer Robinson
  - Don Carlos Smith
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
  - Taylor, John
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - newspaper
  - times-and-seasons
  - nauvoo
  - nineteenth-century
periodical: Times and Seasons
volume: 4
number: 15
published: 1843-06-15
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“Special Conference,” *Times and Seasons* 4, no. 15 (June 15, 1843): 240."
printed_title: SPECIAL CONFERENCE.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1843-06-15_4_15
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v4n15.htm), with its page breaks; this Internet Archive scan is the reference copy (its OCR was used only as a witness for OCR repair)
  identifier: per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1843-06-15_4_15
start_page: 240
end_page: 240
curator_note: A Mormon newspaper published by the church in Nauvoo; included for historical study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1843 (Nauvoo, Illinois); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States
  source: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1843-06-15_4_15
  publication_year: 1843
---

# Special Conference

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At a special Conference of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, held at the grove, near the Temple on the 3rd and 5th of July, 1843, it was decided that the following elders go on a special mission to the following counties in the State of Illinois.

Elijah Reed and Jesse Hitchcock, Adams and Pike counties.

Salmon Warner and Jeremiah Curtis, Calhoun and Jersey counties.

Erastus H. Derby, Orson Hyde and J. G. Adams, Lee county.

Charles C. Rich and Harvey Green, La Salle and De Calb.

L. Richards, Luther A. Jones and E. Robinson, Joe Davies.

John Murdock, Vermillion.

Daniel Avery, Schuyler.

Zebedee Coltrin, McDonough.

Truman Gillet, Benjamin Brown and J. W. Crosby, Cook.

Graham Coltrin, Fulton.

John L. Butler, Hamilton.

David Lewis, Wayne.

James Twist, Bureau.

G. P. Dykes and Samuel Brown, St. Clair.

Pardon Webb, Will.

E. M. Webb, Grundy.

Simeon Dunn, Warren,

H. S. Eldridge, Mason.

Thomas Dobson, Tazwell.

Cyrus Canfield, Menard.

Jared Carter, Morgan.

Samuel James and J. C. Wright, Scott.

Luman H. Corkins, White.

J. M. King, Mercer.

Daniel Allen, Rock Island.

U. C. Nickerson, Henry.

Alfred Brown, Putnam.

P. Meeks, McCoupin.

Abel Butterfield and J. H. Vanatta, Winnebago.

Wm. Nelson, Iroquois.

Samuel Russel, Boone.

Levi Steward, Franklin.

Wm. Meeks, Green.

W. B. Brink and Geo. Chamberlin, Sangamon.

Jacob Wile, Edwards.

Wm. S. Covert, Stark.

M. F. Bartlett and Melvin Wilbur, Bond.

John Outhouse, Alexander,

Cheney G. VanBuren, Brown.

James Carroll, Carroll.

David Jones, Fayette.

John Lowry, Monroe.

Urban V. Stewart, Williamson.

James McFate, Montgomery.

L. O. Littlefield, Clinton.

Elisha H. Groves, Madison.

Theodore Curtis, Cass.

Samuel Keele, Jefferson.

James Hale, Washington.

Geo. W. Thatcher and A. Forgeus, Hancock.

Jacob H. Butterfield, Henderson.

Geo. Middagh, Clay.

James Monroe, Crawford.

Ezra Chase, Coles.

Jesse Chase, Edgar.

Amos Lowel, Clark.

John Miller, Whitesides.

Wm. Martin, Christian.

Reuben Parkhurst, DeWitt.

John Keele, Perry.

Geo. Langley, Johnson.

James M. Henderson, Gallatin.

James W. Cummings, Randolph.

John Workman, Shelby.

Elijah Fordham, Knox.

Geo W. Pitkin and John Wakefield, Peoria.

BRIGHAM YOUNG, President.

W. Richards, Clerk.

The Times and Seasons IS EDITED BY JOHN TAYLOR. Printed and published about the first and fifteenth of every month, on the corner of Water and Bain Streets, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by JOHN TAYLOR AND WILFORD WOODRUFF.

TERMS.-TWO DOLLARS per annum, payable in all cases in advance. Any person procuring five new subscribes and forwarding us Ten Dollars current money, shall receive one volume gratis. All letters must be addressed to John Taylor, editor, POST PAID, or they will not receive attention.