Editing Lyman Wight (section)

===Jackson County conflict and Zion's Camp===
With many of his converts, Wight went to settle in [[Independence, Missouri]], to build the "[[City of Zion (Mormonism)|City of Zion]]". The [[Mormons]] in [[Jackson County, Missouri|Jackson County]] were at odds with their non-Mormon neighbors, who resorted to vigilantism to drive the church from the county.

On July 23, 1833, Wight signed an agreement with the vigilantes which specified that the Latter Day Saints would leave Jackson County by 1834. The Saints were driven out anyway into neighboring [[Clay County, Missouri|Clay County]]. The church membership called on several elders to go up to Kirtland to tell Joseph Smith about the events. When the elders refused, Wight stepped forward to make the journey, despite his wife being ill with a three-day-old child and only three days of food. [[Parley P. Pratt]] volunteered to go with Wight.

Wight and Pratt arrived in [[Kirtland, Ohio]], on February 22, 1834. Two days later, they testified about the conflict in Missouri to the newly formed [[presiding high council|high council]]. This led to the organization of [[Zion's Camp]]. Smith sent out men, two by two, to recruit volunteers. Wight left on April 21 with [[Hyrum Smith]] to recruit from the northwestern United States. Recruitment was difficult, as many people did not want to leave their homes to defend others in Missouri. Smith and Wight recruited about twenty individuals, including [[Hosea Stout]], who was not a church member at the time but was impressed with their preaching. They met with the main company on June 8 at the [[Salt River (Missouri)|Salt River]] in Missouri, bringing the total to 207 men, 11 women, 11 children, and 25 wagons.

Wight tolerated the conditions of the company—including the eating of moldy and rancid food—under the promises from Joseph Smith that they would not be afflicted by it. After a 900-mile march, the members of the camp reached Missouri where they were smitten with [[cholera]]. They were then discharged without having accomplished their goal of returning the Latter Day Saints to Jackson County. At the end of Zion's Camp, Wight wrote up the discharge orders, and remained in Missouri according to Smith's request.