[4] After eight months, in December, Timpson and nine others (including John Y. Barlow; Joseph White Musser; and Rulon C. Allred) signed an "oath pledging to not advocate, teach or "countenance" the practice" of polygamy and were released.

[4] Musser died nine years later in 1954, and Timpson was a pall-bearer at his funeral service along with Leroy S. Johnson, Rulon Jeffs, and Richard Jessop.

[5] Timpson became a member of the Council of Friends, an organization that became the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, though it was not known by that name at that time.

[7] Johnson viewed Timpson as a threat, and expelled him and J. Marion Hammon from the congregation during a sermon, stating, "The Lord gave you men five and a half years to change your thinking on this principle of having one man holding the sealing powers in the earth at a time, and you have made a mess of it.

[8] On May 13, 1984, Timpson and Hammon held their first priesthood meeting outside the council, and they soon founded their own sect which came to be called the Centennial Park group.

[7][9] As both the Council and the Centennial Park group were located in the Short Creek Community, members of different factions live among one another.