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....
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...
I came to Nauvoo in the fall of 1842. At this time I met the Prophet Joseph Smith, and knew him from then till the time of his death. I was only a boy of eleven when I first knew him, but I always loved him, and no amusements or...
The Prophet Joseph Smith was blessed with a noble mother who made a covenant with the Lord to serve him, which led her to seek with all her heart for the true religion and the way of salvation. She looked for the truth for about 3 years before the Prophet...
ELDER LEVI CURTIS, of Springville, Utah, relates the following incident which, as he states, was told him by one of the principal parties referred to. About the month of August, 1856, William D. Huntington and I went into Hobble Creek Canyon to get a tree or log suitable for making...
My grandfather, Israel Barlow, was a very trusted bodyguard to the Prophet Joseph Smith. Shortly before the martyrdom (the exact date not being available), the Prophet called upon him and requested that he make a journey of many miles on horseback and deliver a message from the Prophet to a...
Upon another occasion my grandfather was assisting in the building of the Temple at Nauvoo and was driving a pair of beautiful high-spirited black mares. One day while backing his wagon in at the quarry which was down by the river's edge, the Prophet came over to him and said:...
Elder Joseph Taylor, Sen., of Harrisville, Weber County, Utah, was born June 4th, 1825, in Warren County, Kentucky. He was baptized into the Church in Ray County, Missouri, in the summer of 1835. In Zion's Camp, on the Salt River, Monroe County, Missouri, in June, 1834, he first met the...
