Charles C. Rich

Charles Coulson Rich was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and served as an apostle of LDS church. He was baptized by George M. Hinkle in 1832, after having been taught by Lyman Wight in 1831. In 1838 he married Sarah D. Pea whom he had previously proposed to by letter, the two having never before met. Rich was a leader in Caldwell County, Missouri and fought in the Battle of Crooked River in 1838. After the expulsion of the Latter Day Saints from Missouri, Rich settled in Nauvoo, Illinois where he was made an original member of the Council of Fifty. He also served as a member of the Nauvoo High Council, and as a brigadier and major general in the Nauvoo Legion. Brigham Young appointed Rich a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on 12 February 1849. Rich followed the church's principle of plural marriage, taking six wives in all and fathering 51 children.