Zebedee Coltrin
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Zebedee Coltrin (7 September 1804–21 July 1887) was a Mormon pioneer and a general authority in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints from 1835 to 1837.
Coltrin was born in Ovid, New York. In 1814, his family moved to Strongsville, Ohio. In 1828, Coltrin married Julia Ann Jennings.
On 9 January 1831, Coltrin was baptized into the Latter Day Saint church by Solomon Hancock. Just weeks after, Coltrin was assigned to go to Missouri as a church missionary with Levi W. Hancock. On 17 July 1832 Coltrin was ordained a high priest and in 1834 he served another mission, this time to Upper Canada. Also in 1834, Coltrin joined Zion's Camp and marched from Ohio to Missouri to assist Latter Day Saints there.
Coltrin became a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy on 28 February 1835. The next day, Coltrin was appointed to be one of the first seven presidents of the Seventy. When the church hierarchy realized that Coltrin had previously been ordained a high priest, Coltrin was released as one of the presidents of the Seventy on 6 April 1837.
Coltrin was a Mormon pioneer and traveled to the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. In 1852, Coltrin settled in Spanish Fork, Utah Territory. Coltrin practiced plural marriage, and his second wife, Mary Mlott, fathered his eight children.
In 1873, John Taylor ordained Coltrin to be a church patriarch, a position he held until his death in Spanish Fork at the age of 83.
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- Andrew Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, vol. 1, p. 190; vol. 4, p. 697
