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Oliver Cowdery
American Mormon leader during the formative period of the Latter Day Saint movement (1806-1850)
- Child of William Cowdery and Rebecca Cowdery
- Married to Elizabeth Ann Cowdery
- Dated 3 October 1806 CE – 3 March 1850 CE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
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Life
One office on record
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
- 1834 CE – 1838 CE Assistant President of the Church
Family
The family of Oliver Cowdery
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 3
Family 3
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a shared religious affiliation
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Connections
How Oliver Cowdery connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Documented influence 1
What this means
A transmission argued from evidence. Not shared symbols, and not a short path through a database.
Does not imply shared symbols as evidence · a short path through a database
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Sources
Sources and evidence
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4 statements on this record
- 2 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 2 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
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Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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