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The speaker’s evangelical fervor poured forth naturally: he was Joseph Fielding Smith, 84, grandnephew of the founder, grandson of the prophet’s martyred brother Hyrum, son of former Mormon ...
The martyrdom of both Joseph and Hyrum Smith led to the Saints trekking further ... When Smith is in Carthage and reading from the Book of Mormon to receive personal comfort, he and the others ...
June 27: While in jail, Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum are shot and killed by members of a mob. No one will ever be convicted of the crime. A struggle for the leadership of the Mormon movement ...
Alvin, their eldest, was born in 1798, and Hyrum two years later ... According to Mormon belief, an angel named Moroni came to Smith on the night of September 21, 1823, and told the teenager ...
3 The resulting manuscript, the Book of Mormon, was published in March 1830. On April 6, 1830, Joseph Smith organized The ... killed along with his brother Hyrum by a mob in Carthage, Illinois ...