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Trip 05
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Images from my road trip to West Virginia and Virginia
Included are picture along the way
to and from
Monument to Joseph and Hyrum Smith
On June
24, 1844, the Prophet Joseph Smith, with his brother, Hyrum, and in
company with 17 other men, left Nauvoo for Carthage on what would be his
final horse ride to answer charges against them for causing a riot.
This statue depicts the brothers beginning that fateful journey. Not far
from this location by the temple, Joseph turned and said, "This is the
loveliest place and the best people under the heavens; little do they
know the trials that await them."
As they were nearing Carthage, Joseph spoke to the company, saying "I am
going like a lamb to the slaughter, but I am calm as a Summer's morning.
I have a conscience void of offense towards God, and towards all men. I
shall die innocent, and it shall yet be said of me - 'He was murdered
in cold blood.'"
His prophecy came true three days later when he and his brother Hyrum
were killed while awaiting trial in the Carthage Jail.
www.historicnauvoo.net
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