While he [Joseph] was acting as mayor of the city, a colored man called Anthony was arrested for selling liquor on Sunday, contrary to law. He pleaded that the reason he had done so was that he might raise the money to purchase the freedom of a dear child held...
I will write one more incident in the life of the Prophet as related by him to Brother James Bird, who died a few years since at St. George. It was as follows: On the morning that Governor Boggs’ exterminating army attempted to come into Far West, Joseph the Prophet...
Sophronia almost died, and Joseph went through a major operation directed by Dr. Nathan Smith. He was the only doctor at the time in the whole world who knew how to perform this needed operation, and he lived in the area. Joseph had a special mission to perform on this...
Here are three very short stories, told by three different people, that demonstrate the unselfish and generous nature of the Prophet Joseph Smith. John E. Page: At the time Brother Page was called to go on a mission to Canada, he objected, for the reason that he was destitute of...
All of Lucy’s and Joseph Sr.’s children became ill with typus fever, or typhoid fever as we call it today. In this epidemic of 1812 -1813 many thousands of people died. Through the power of their faith in the Lord, God in his mercy heard their prayers and all their...
My father, Thomas Colborn, a member of Zion's Camp, and well acquainted with the Prophet Joseph, moved from the state of New York to Nauvoo with his family in the spring of 1843. I was then in my ninth year. Upon arriving there, we camped down by the river in...
The Prophet Joseph’s mother received a vision in answer to her prayers many years before Joseph had his first vision. During the time of her vision, she was earnestly seeking the true religion and wanted her husband Joseph Sr. to also know the truth. She went out in a grove...
About this time the construction of the Kirtland Temple had started. Ira Stearns Hatch, although not a member of the Church, and Wealtha [his wife] decided to make a contribution to its construction. Ira was very anxious to visit the Prophet, Joseph Smith, and feel the spirit of the man....
