Biography
Warren Farr Parrish was born 10 January 1803 in Mendon, Monroe County, New York, United States to John Parrish (1777-1850) and Ruth Farr (1783-1842) and died 3 January 1877 Emporia, Lyon County, Kansas, United States of unspecified causes. He married Elizabeth Patten (1797-1834) 1823 in Westmoreland, Cheshire County, New Hampshire.
Conversion to Mormonism
Elizabeth was the next-oldest sister of David Wyman Patten, who joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on 15 Jun 1832 and who was the senior apostle in the Quorum of the Twelve at the time of his martyrdom on 25 Oct 1838—from a blast to his abdomen during the Battle of Crooked River in Missouri.
David W Patten came to Theresa, Jefferson, New York, in 1833 as a missionary to his family members and others living in that area. A number of his family members were baptized on 30 May 1833. Elizabeth was not named as one who joined that day, yet her husband Warren Farr Parrish was among those baptized by Brigham Young on that day. Elizabeth must have been well acquainted with the doctrines of the gospel of Jesus Christ since so many of her family members joined the church.
Zions Camp Participant
One of the most interesting episodes in the early history of LDS Church was the march of Zion's Camp (1834). The members of the Church in Missouri were being persecuted, and the Prophet Joseph made it a matter of prayer and received a revelation on February 24, 1834. The Lord instructed the Prophet to assemble at least one hundred young and middle-aged men and to go to the land of Zion, or Missouri. (See D&C 130:19–34.)
Zion’s Camp, a group of approximately one hundred and fifty men, gathered at Kirtland, Ohio, in the spring of 1834 and marched to Jackson County, Missouri. By the time they reached Missouri, the camp had increased to approximately two hundred men.
Warren marched in the camp with his wife (Betsey Parrish) who was the sister of fellow marcher, David Patten, a future apostle of the church. Betsey died from the cholera epidemic that his the camp.
= Later Years
Warren Parrish held a number of positions of responsibility, including that of scribe to church president Joseph Smith Jr. and even became a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy on February 28, 1835.
Parrish and other leaders became disillusioned with Joseph Smith (1805-1844) after the failure of the Kirtland Safety Society (1836) and left the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Parrish remained in Kirtland, Ohio, with other disaffected former church leaders and formed a short-lived church which they called the "Church of Christ", after the original name of the church organized by Smith. This church disintegrated as the result of disagreement between church leaders, and Parrish later left Kirtland, then became a Baptist minister, and remained so for the rest of his life.
Marriage and Family
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Mary Parrish (1828-) | |||
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Martha Parrish (1837-1900) | |||
Siblings
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Azariah Parrish (1800-) | |||
| Sarah Parrish (1802-1875) | 1802 Jefferson County, New York, United States | 1875 Pamelia, Jefferson County, New York, United States | Ira Jerome Patten (1806-1860) |
| Minerva Parrish (1802-1844) | |||
| Martha Parrish (1803-) | |||
| Martin Parrish (1803-) | |||
| Warren Farr Parrish (1803-1877) | 10 January 1803 Mendon, Monroe County, New York, United States | 3 January 1877 Emporia, Lyon County, Kansas, United States | Elizabeth Patten (1797-1834) Martha Hadley Raymond (1804-1875) |
| Chester Parrish (1806-1877) | |||
| William Rice Parrish (1810-1875) | |||
| Elizabeth Parrish (1810-1882) | |||
| Hannah Melissa Parrish (1812-1893) | |||
| John Lyman Parrish (1819-1877) | |||