1. The first Mormon sermon he heard was preached by Elder John McIntosh by whom he was baptized in Jul 1841 in Gibson, Tennessee. In February 1842 he and his brother William went to Jackson County, Tennessee on a visit to their parents, and there preached and baptized fifteen or twenty persons. He moved to Nauvoo in 1842 and was ordained by President Joseph Young into the 10th Quorum of Seventies. He was on a mission in the Southern States when the Prophet Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum were martyred. He came to the Great Salt Lake Valley in 1848 and settled in Big Cottonwood with his family. In the Spring of 1854 he moved to Provo, where he lived until the Fall of 1868, and served as a member of the City Council for some years. He was ordained senior President of the 52nd Quorum of Seventy by President Joseph Young on May 21, 1857. In the Fall of '68 he was called to the Muddy Mission. In 1871 he went to Kanab where he continued to dwell until his death. He donated liberally to public improvements and helped toward the erection of three temples.
He was a man of great faith and experienced many manifestations of the power of God, to which he bore a faithful testimony to the end of his life.
1. The first Mormon sermon he heard was preached by Elder John McIntosh by whom he was baptized in Jul 1841 in Gibson, Tennessee. In February 1842 he and his brother William went to Jackson County, Tennessee on a visit to their parents, and there preached and baptized fifteen or twenty persons. He moved to Nauvoo in 1842 and was ordained by President Joseph Young into the 10th Quorum of Seventies. He was on a mission in the Southern States when the Prophet Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum were martyred. He came to the Great Salt Lake Valley in 1848 and settled in Big Cottonwood with his family. In the Spring of 1854 he moved to Provo, where he lived until the Fall of 1868, and served as a member of the City Council for some years. He was ordained senior President of the 52nd Quorum of Seventy by President Joseph Young on May 21, 1857. In the Fall of '68 he was called to the Muddy Mission. In 1871 he went to Kanab where he continued to dwell until his death. He donated liberally to public improvements and helped toward the erection of three temples.
He was a man of great faith and experienced many manifestations of the power of God, to which he bore a faithful testimony to the end of his life.
1. The first Mormon sermon he heard was preached by Elder John McIntosh by whom he was baptized in Jul 1841 in Gibson, Tennessee. In February 1842 he and his brother William went to Jackson County, Tennessee on a visit to their parents, and there preached and baptized fifteen or twenty persons. He moved to Nauvoo in 1842 and was ordained by President Joseph Young into the 10th Quorum of Seventies. He was on a mission in the Southern States when the Prophet Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum were martyred. He came to the Great Salt Lake Valley in 1848 and settled in Big Cottonwood with his family. In the Spring of 1854 he moved to Provo, where he lived until the Fall of 1868, and served as a member of the City Council for some years. He was ordained senior President of the 52nd Quorum of Seventy by President Joseph Young on May 21, 1857. In the Fall of '68 he was called to the Muddy Mission. In 1871 he went to Kanab where he continued to dwell until his death. He donated liberally to public improvements and helped toward the erection of three temples.
He was a man of great faith and experienced many manifestations of the power of God, to which he bore a faithful testimony to the end of his life.
1. Millie Hoffneagle reported that after John Jared and Elizabeth Bandy were married they lived in Bedford County, Virginia, near Fincastle, about 90 miles Southwest of Lynchburg.
2. They left Virginia and traveled through what is now Tennessee and then into Breckenridge County, Kentucky and stayed there about five years. They then came up into Illinois and stopped in Morgan County near Jacksonville. Some of the boys came to Warren County to see if the Indians were gone. Leaving Morgan County after one year, they came on to Warren County.
1. Elizabeth took Esther Ann Jared into her home and raised her when her mother Sarah died.
2. Elizabeth died in the house that William Jared built in Apr 1879.
1. William settled on land where the farm home of Albert Holeman now is.
2. He bought an acre of John Jared's across the road where the barn stands and built a house there so he could live and vote in the same township where his brothers, John & Joel did..
3. He died at the hom eof Jonathan and Ruth Jared Ensor in Putnam County, Tennessee.
1. Joseph married and lived on the Curry farm.