Editing Lyman Wight (section)

===Nauvoo era===
Wight was ordained an [[apostle (Latter Day Saints)|apostle]] of the church by Smith on April 8, 1841, to replace Patten, who had died in the Battle of Crooked River in 1838. Wight and [[George Miller (Latter Day Saints)|George Miller]] became co-responsible for a common-stock, religious cooperative company/church mill and logging town in the wilderness of Wisconsin. Much lumber for the [[Nauvoo Temple]] and the [[Nauvoo House]] were floated down the Mississippi River from the several Mormon mills in the area.