REYNOLDS CAHOON
Salt Lake City Cemetery, UT
      A veteren of the War of 1812, and one of the first to accept the gospel of Christ by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Kirtland, Ohio. Baptized by Parley P. Pratt and within a year was called by revelation to travel to Missouri and "preach the gospel" without purse or script (D&C 52:30). A counselor to Presiding Bishop Newel K. Whitney, and later as a counselor in the Stake Presidency in Kirtland.
        In 1834 the Prophet named and blessed Reynolds's seventh child, Mahonri Moriancumer. The Prophet explained, "The name I have given your son is the name of the brother of Jared (in the Book of Mormon); the Lord has just shown (or revealed) it to me."
          The family journeyed to Missouri and settled among the Saints in the Adam-ondi-ahman Stake, until Governor Lilburn Boggs's extermination order forced them to flee to Illinois.
          Reynolds served on the building committees for the Nauvoo House, the Mansion House, and the Nauvoo Temple. However loyal, when the Prophet Joseph fled to begin his persuit of journeying to the Rocky Mountains, Cahoon and others called him a coward and the Prophet felt obligated by the Saints to return. Joseph was soon killed by the Carthage mob.
         Cahoon journeyed with the Saints to the Rocky Mountains where he died many years an upstanding member of the Church.
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