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Joseph and Hyrum Smith are martyred at Carthage Jail. Explain that on June 27, 1844, Governor Thomas Ford left Carthage to speak to the Saints in Nauvoo. The day previous, the governor had met with the Prophet Joseph Smith and promised to take Joseph and Hyrum with him if he left Carthage.
- The Martyrdom: The Prophet Seals His Testimony with His Blood
On June 23, they crossed the Mississippi River, but later...
- The Martyrdom: The Prophet Seals His Testimony with His Blood
It was near midnight on June 24 that Joseph Smith, his brother Hyrum, and over a dozen members of the Nauvoo City council arrived in Carthage, Illinois to answer, for a third time, the charge of “riot” for their destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor press.
On June 23, they crossed the Mississippi River, but later that day, brethren from Nauvoo found the Prophet and told him that troops would invade the city if he did not surrender to the authorities in Carthage. This the Prophet agreed to do, hoping to appease both government officials and the mobs.
Jun 27, 2017 · As we stood there, I shared the story behind the statue with my family, of how Joseph felt inspired to cross the Mississippi river and head west to establish a permanent place for the Saints, but after some of his associates accused him of cowardice, he returned to Nauvoo and rode to Carthage jail and to his death.
The violent deaths of the Prophet Joseph Smith at the age of thirty-eight and his brother Hyrum Smith (age forty-four), Associate President and patriarch of the Church, dramatically ended the founding period of the LDS Church.
Jun 26, 2019 · In 1928, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (now known as the Community of Christ) had the bodies of Joseph, Hyrum and Emma Smith relocated before the rising Mississippi River could submerge their graves.
Aug 30, 2001 · Sun sets over the horseshoe bend of the Mississippi River near where Joseph, Hyrum, Willard Richards and Porter Rockwell crossed in a leaky skiff. After Joseph came from his family to leave, “his tears were flowing fast.
