Mary Whitmer
Mary Musselman Whitmer (August 27, 1778 – January 1856) was a Book of Mormon witness and the wife of Peter Whitmer, Sr.
Through her son David,[1] she and her family became acquainted with Joseph Smith around 1828. In 1829, she was caring for three boarders (Smith, Emma Hale Smith, and Oliver Cowdery) in addition to her large household while the Book of Mormon was being translated.[2] She said that she was often overloaded with work to the extent she felt it quite a burden. During this time, the male boarders and members of her household were speaking of being shown the golden plates.[3] One evening, when she went to milk the cows, she said that a stranger with a knapsack spoke to her, explained what was going on in her house, comforted her, then produced a bundle of plates from his knapsack,[3] turned the leaves for her, showed her the engravings, exhorted her to faith in bearing her burden a little longer, then suddenly vanished with the plates. Whitmer always called the stranger "Brother Nephi".[3]
Whitmer was baptized a member of the Church of Christ by Oliver Cowdery in Seneca Lake, April 18, 1830. She was the mother of five of the Witnesses to the Book of Mormon.[3] She was excommunicated from the church with the entire Whitmer family in 1838.
Notes
- ↑ "Peter Whitmer", wn.com, World News (WN) Network, retrieved 6 February 2013
- ↑ "Mary Whitmer", FAIRwiki at FAIRMormon.org, Foundation for Apologetic Information & Research (FAIR), retrieved 6 February 2013
- 1 2 3 4 "Book of Mormon/Witnesses/Other Book of Mormon witnesses", FAIRwiki at FAIRMormon.org, FAIR, retrieved 6 February 2013
References
- Whitmer, John C. (October 1888). "The Eight Witnesses". The Historical Record. Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson. 7: 621.
- Juvenile Instructor. 24: 22. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - Jenson, Andrew (1901). Latter-day Saint biographical encyclopedia: A compilation of biographical sketches of prominent men and women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. 1. Salt Lake City, Utah: The Andrew Jenson History Company (Printed by The Deseret News Press). p. 283. Retrieved September 8, 2014.
- Keith W. Perkins, "True to the Book of Mormon—The Whitmers", Ensign, February 1989.