Symonds R-y-d-e-r’-s Great-Great Granddaughter’s Gift to the Church

Symonds Rider

To understand this next fact and the significance of it, you must know that Symonds Ryder is the individual who apostatized from the Church due to the misspelling of his name on his mission call. Rather than being spelled R-y-d-e-r his name was spelt R-i-d-e-r. Symonds was part of the mob which tarred and feathered Joseph Smith 24 March 1832. What was it his great-great-grand daughter donated to the Church in 1959, over a century after the apostasy of Symonds?

A)                 The original rough draft of the Articles and Covenants (section 20 and 22 of the Doctrine and Covenants)

B)                 The tar bucket that Symonds used the night Joseph Smith was tarred and feathered

C)                 An original copy of the Book of Mormon

D)                 An original Book of Commandments

Yesterday’s answer:

(D)   Used it as stationary

The following is in reference to the last of the Saints driven from Nauvoo:   When the city was evacuated, he [Daniel H. Wells] was one of the last to leave, and being fired upon by the enemy’s cannon after crossing the river into Iowa, he sent one of the balls with his compliments to the governor of that state as an evidence of Illinois’ respect for its sister state. . . .

Chronicles of Courage, comp. by Lesson Committee (Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1992), 3:6.