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...
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...
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...
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...
"At the time William Smith and others rebelled against the Prophet, as recorded in his history, when the walls of the Kirtland Temple were raised but a few feet above the ground, I attended a meeting 'on the flats,' where 'Joseph' presided. Entering the school-house a little before meeting opened,...
