Background
Ezra Thayre was born in Randolph, Vermont, to Ezra and Charlotte French Thayre.
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On June 6, 1831, Joseph Smith received a revelation instructing Thayre to depart on a mission to Missouri with Thomas B. Marsh. In preparation for this, Thayre was ordained an elder in the church by Lyman Wight. However, due to a disagreement about property that arose among Thayre and some of the Latter Day Saints living in Thompson, Ohio, Thayre was not prepared to leave when Marsh was ready.
A revelation to Smith revoked the mission call to Thayre, assigned Marsh a new companion, and instructed Thayre to "repent of his pride, and of his selfishness".
Later in 1832, Thayre did serve a mission to New York with Marsh. However, on June 21, 1834, Thayre contracted cholera, which quickly spread to the many of the other Saints in Zion"s Camp.
However, Thayre went on to make a full recovery. On March 1, 1835, Thayre was ordained a seventy in the church.
However, on May 2, 1835, Thayre"s priesthood was suspended after an unspecified complaint of misbehavior filed by Oliver Granger.
A disciplinary council was held, and Thayre was eventually restored to full fellowship in the church. In 1839, he moved with the majority of Latter Day Saints to Nauvoo, Illinois. After the death of Joseph Smith in June 1844, Thayre was part of the minority of Latter Day Saints who refused to follow the leadership of Brigham Young and the Quorum of the Twelve.
When the majority of Saints departed Nauvoo for the Salt Lake Valley, Thayer remained behind in Nauvoo.
In 1849, Thayre moved to Michigan. The date of Thayre"s death is unknown.
Genealogical confusion has also resulted because Thayre"s father was also named Ezra, but unlike the junior Thayre, he usually spelled his name Thayer. Other sources report Thayre"s birthplace as being Randolph, Massachusetts instead of Randolph, Vermont.
Membership
In 1834, Thayre joined Zion"s Camp, a group of Latter Day Saints that traveled from Ohio to assist some members of the church in Missouri. In 1838, Thayre became a member of the Adam-ondi-Ahman stake high council. In 1844, shortly after being made a member of the Council of Fifty, Thayre departed on a mission with Jedediah M. Grant, George A. Smith and Wilford Woodruff to campaign for Joseph Smith as President of the United States.
