Big Black Jackson was a familiar name by which we knew a man in Nauvoo who had wormed himself into the company and good graces of Joseph the Prophet. Jackson had done this and been a long time at it, with the wicked design from the beginning of getting Joseph...
Introduction: This section of Lucy’s history shows the Smith Family being led by the hand of the Lord to the state of New York. At this time Joseph Sr. and Lucy decided to leave Vermont due to crop failure and famine. However, the Lord was moving them to Palmyra, New...
“… I was taken by surprise when I was informed by the Prophet Joseph, who came to me June 4th [1837], being the Sabbath day, while I was seated in the front stand above the Sacrament table on the Melchisedec side of the Temple in Kirtland, who opened the door...
We never suffered ourselves to go into any important measure without asking Brother Joseph to inquire of the Lord in relation to it. Such was our confidence in him as a Prophet that when he said, “Thus saith the Lord,” we were confident it would be as he said; and...
One day while crossing a large prairie, six or eight miles from any house, we crossed a small stream. The ground was frozen deep on each side, and we sprung one of the axletrees of Brother Barnard's carriage. Brother Barnard said we could not travel with it any farther. Brother...
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...
