Daniel Tyler

Ruth Welton Tyler

Daniel Tyler Chronology

2 Nov. 1816 - Born at Sempronius, Cayuga, New York.
About 1820 - Daniel saw a vision and understood it to mean he would be restored to health and that he had a special mission to perform.
About 1823 - Tylers moved to Springfield, Erie, PA
1829 -Daniel’s Grandfather Tyler saw a vision of an angel who said his family would live to see the true church established again on the earth.
Dec. 1823 - Hyrum Smith came and converted the Tyler Family to the Church. (Same period of time Jared Carter converted Welton Family) Another account says it was Orson Hyde and Samuel Smith who converted Tyler Family.
16 Jan 1833 - Daniel is baptized by Lincoln Hoskins. A hole had to be cut through the ice in Lake Erie before he could be baptized.
Prob. 1833 - Tylers moved to Kirtland, Ohio
4 Aug. 1834 - Daniel ordained a priest under the hands of Lorenzo Wells Angus.
1834 - Zion’s Camp. Daniel was only 17 ½ years old. The life sketch someone did of him says he was in Zion’s Camp. There is some question about it because he did not mention it and I have no other source. His age makes it marginally possible.
About 1835 - His life sketch says he attended School of the Prophets. Included in his writings we have are some details about the builders of the Kirtland Temple. Also about hearing Joseph Smith pray during this period. He was at the Kirtland Temple dedication and received his partial endowment there.
11 Apr. 1836 - “Father Tyler” (Andrews) mentioned as being restored to fellowship in a meeting at Kirtland.
1836 - Kirtland Camp. Daniel did not leave Kirtland with that group although an Elder Tyler is mentioned in the writings about it. It had to have been a different Tyler.
11 Sep 1836 - Married to Ruth Welton in Kirtland
12 Sep 1836 - Left for Caldwell Co., Missouri with Ruth and his father’s family. They wintered in Lake County, Indiana.
2 May 1837 - Daniel’s father died on the journey at Bloomfield, Indiana. Daniel’s brother Comfort, 19 years old (2 years younger than Daniel) fell from a horse here and received injuries from which he died 3 weeks later at Huntsville, Missouri.
3 Aug 1837 - Arrived at Far West Missouri and bought 10 acres at the eastern part of the city. Ruth said that Mother Tyler also purchased a small farm but had to leave it to the mobbers.
1838 - Persecutions in Missouri raged. Ruth gave poignant account of taking up a pitchfork to defend home and fully expecting to die at the hands of the mobbers. Daniel wrote about Sidney Rigdon’s “Salt Sermon” and the repercussions. He also gave a touching account of how Joseph Smith forgave an errant brother.
Dec. 1838 - Daniel had a vision in which he was told to call his father up from the grave. (64 years later in a blessing he was told that he would call up his dead.)
29 Jan 1839 - Signed a covenant with others in Far West to assist each other in leaving Missouri. (His name on list of those filing claim against State of Missouri. His losses listed as $301.50.) He wrote an article in which he told of Haun’s Mill and said those people had not heeded the Prophet’s call to come into town for safety. Ruth also mentions Haun’s Mill in her autobiography but neither says they were actually there. I believe they were not. They just mentioned it as part of the Caldwell County persecutions.
13 Feb 1839 - Tylers left Far West, arriving at Exeter on the 3rd of March. They paused there briefly (with Ruth’s parents, I believe) before continuing on to Pike’s County.
4 Jun 1839 - Were in Griggsville, Pikes County, Illinois where Perintha Olive was born on that date. Think Perintha Olive was later called Allie or Alice.
1840 - Daniel ordained an elder by Harrison Burgess and called to go on a mission to the southern states. (Wonder if he was really ordained a Seventy here because he must have been an elder while in Kirtland, attending the School of the Prophets and having his endowment. Later the same date, 24 Sep 1844, is given for him being ordained a Seventy and a High Priest, which had to have been in error.)
Early March, 1840 - He was in Scott County, Illinois, teaching. Missionaries were instructed to teach on the way to their field of labor, which he did. He taught also in Morgan and Green Counties, baptizing 23 people before going on.
Dec 1840 - Left by water to go to Mississippi.
1841 - Ruth and Perintha joined him in Mississippi for last year of his mission. During these years of missionary labors in the South, Daniel’s name is mentioned often in The Times and Seasons as a traveling agent and giving some details of his successes.
6 Apr 1841 - Wrote a letter from Copiah County, Mississippi telling about the success of the work and the urgent need for more missionaries there. Times and Seasons Vol. 2 Issue # 16; June 15, 1841.
Oct 1842 - Returned home from mission, probably to Griggsville, Pike Co., Illinois.
10 Apr 1843 - Called again to go to Mississippi (Natchez) on a mission. Uncertain when he actually left. Brethren were told to arrange for the welfare of their families before departing on missions.
Sep 1843 - Ruth had twin girls at Griggsville, Pikes Co., Illinois. Both died within two months.
June 1844 - Daniel in Mississippi at time of martyrdom of the Prophet. Soon Ruth heard that Daniel had been murdered. She did not know different until October.
24 Sep 1844 - Daniel ordained High Priest (one account says Seventy) and appointed to preside over the Southern District of the Mississippi Mission.
Oct 1844 - Elders called home for Conference. Ruth went, hoping to see Daniel there, alive and well. He had just arrived on the steamship and they met on the road. She did not at first recognize him because he was so bloated from having been poisoned with buttermilk by one of the enemies of the Church. That was the first she knew for sure he was not dead as reported. They saw the mantle of Prophet Joseph fall on Brigham Young and both understood it the same way.
12 Sep 1845 - Tylers apparently living in community of Yelrome (not on map but probably in Hancock County, not far from Nauvoo). Daniel wrote a letter from there on this date offering a proposition to the mobs. It did no good and they shortly had to move to Nauvoo for safety. Doc. Hist. Of Church Vol. 7:32:441:8 and 442:1.
Also Sep 1845 - Tylers moved to Nauvoo. Ruth was born there in October and died the same

month. Ruth joined the Female Relief Society there.

No date given - Daniel’s life sketch says he was a member of the Nauvoo Legion. Not aware of him having written on the subject but it would have been only briefly because they were not in Nauvoo very long. However, the Nauvoo Legion was continued in Utah and that may be what he was referring to.
June 1846 - Crossed the Mississippi River and moved on to Pisgah.
16 Jul 1846 - Daniel volunteered for the Mormon Battalion at Pisgah. Also Ruth’s brother, David Welton. Ruth proceeded to Council Bluffs, Iowa.
28 Jan 1847 - Emily Percinda born to Ruth in Winter Quarters (Council Bluffs, Iowa).
30 Jan 1847 - Mormon Battalion arrived in San Diego.
16 Oct 1847 - Daniel arrived in Salt Lake from California.
18 Oct 1847 - Daniel departed Salt Lake heading for Winter Quarters to join Ruth. He later wrote a very interesting account of the trip.
18 Dec 1847 - Daniel arrived at Winter Quarters and is united with Ruth and two daughters.
June 1848 - Tylers left with Amasa Lyman’s Emigration Company to cross the Plains.
18 Oct 1848 - Arrived at Mouth of Emigration Canyon. Settled in Little Cottonwood.
25 Oct 1848 - Baby girl born and died same day.
Early 1849 - Moved to Salt Lake -- 10th Ward.
22 Feb 1849 - Daniel called to be first counselor to Bishop David Pettigrew.
22 Nov 1849 -(This date according to an article in The Juvenile Instructor. Earlier than given in his life sketch) Daniel badly injured in wagon accident. His head was ran over and leg badly broken. He was housebound for 3 months and 7 months on a crutch).
27 Jan 1850 - Daniel Moroni born in Salt Lake City.
Summer 1850 - A Sister Moore prophesied his leg would heal and he would go on a foreign mission and preach in 4 languages and return with many sheaves. All came true.
12 Sep 1851 - Fitz Henry born. Lived one year.
April 1853 - Called on European Mission (See Journal)
27 Nov 1855 - Released from mission presidency because of poor health. Went to England and visited Conferences there until departure.
18 Feb 1856 - Left Liverpool on ship “Caravan” as leader of 457 members.
24 Mar 1856 - Landed in New York. Remained 4 days at Castle Gardens, then proceeded to Iowa. He later wrote an article about the voyage.
5 Apr 1856 - Arrived at Iowa City, Iowa with his group.
June 1856 - Called to be Bishop of L.D.S. Camp waiting to cross plains.
25 Aug 1856 - Departed in Edward Martin’s Handcart Company. He was counselor to the captain and chaplain of the company. He wrote this in a Juvenile Instructor article and as of now it is all we have of his writings about that trip: “I was captain of a shipload of about 400 Saints crossing the Atlantic Ocean, and counselor to Captain Edward Martin of the latest company of handcarts in 1856, and by his request saw all out of camp in the morning and in camp at night, besides being chaplain of the company and having to oversee the burying of the dead, besides other arduous duties under perhaps the most trying circumstances of any company that ever traveled among the Saints in this dispensation. Our company from Iowa City to Winter Quarters numbered over 300 souls: from that point Elder Jesse Hanen having charge of a company of between three and four hundred was called to other duties and this company was added, making hard upon 700. We arrived in Salt Lake November 30, 1856. Thus was fulfilled the last item of to me the then marvelous predictions (Sister Moore’s prophesies).”
30 Nov 1856 - Company arrived in Salt Lake and he returned home to Tenth Ward.
1857 - Called to take a posse of militia to Echo Canyon to watch the movements of Johnston’s Army. His family would be among those who left Salt Lake and moved south until the threat was over. (It was during this period of panic that the Mountain Meadow Massacre occurred, and which as far as we know, Daniel never mentioned although the trial of John D. Lee was held in the Beaver Court House and must have been of more than passing interest to Daniel Tyler, who most certainly would have been personally acquainted with him.)
19 Oct 1862 - Called to Southern Utah (Pine Valley) to help strengthen a weak settlement. He taught school there and they stayed 3 years.

Sometime in 1865 - Called to Beaver, Utah, again to help strengthen a weak settlement.
No date given - Member of Beaver’s first High Council.
No date given - Served as counselor to John Hughes in the presidency of the High Priests Quorum. Quote from “Monuments to Courage” (History of Beaver County): “Among the prominent citizens of Beaver was Daniel Tyler who had been president of the Swiss Mission prior to his residence in Beaver. A member of the Mormon Battalion.... He was a deep student, gifted in writing and teaching, and added greatly to the growth and stability of the community. ...Was recognized as an authority in the doctrines and teachings of the Church.
12 Mar 1866 - Beaver Stake established with John R. Murdock as president, William Fotheringham as first counselor and Daniel Tyler as 2nd counselor.
No date given - Daniel served as Justice of the Peace in Beaver.
No date given - Daniel Tyler, a member of the Mormon Battalion and a member of considerable literary ability, taught school for a short time in the log Tithing Office.” (Monuments to Courage)
January 1871 - Daniel Tyler dedicated the new Relief Society Building.
I Nov 1872 - Ruth called to be first counselor in the Relief Society.
10 Dec 1873 - Daniel Tyler ordained Patriarch in Beaver Stake by President Brigham Young. He held other offices at same ti me.
6 Jun 1876 - Ruth called to be president of the Relief Society.
25 Jul 1877 - Daniel released as member of the stake presidency.
26 Jul 1877 - Daniel called to be president of the High Priests Quorum with James Farrer and George Eyre as counselors.
About 1881 - Daniel Tyler wrote book on Mormon Battalion.
6 Dec 1886 - Beaver divided into two wards. Ruth called as president of Beaver First Ward Relief Society.
5 Mar 1897 - Ruth called to be Stake Relief Society president.
14 Mar 1897 - Ruth Welton Tyler died.
About 1900 - Daniel sold his Beaver home for $800 and lived with his daughter, Alice Tanner until his death.
7 Nov 1906 - Daniel died at nearly 90 years of age.