Show I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 HISTORY or OF OSEPH JOSEPH SMITH I 1 I 1 ssi remillia 1840 I 1 I 1 I 1 i saturday 5 elders young and Rl chAds went weri t I 1 from Manch manchester epter to liverpool and in the evening i organized org a company of brints bound for new I 1 york by choosing elder theodore theadore turley to preside with six counselors I 1 sunday 6 elder young preached pro ached on onmon monday night elders young and richards isaid on oil board the north amp tica fiti the saints and on morning about nine the ves sel el went out with a sto steamer amor the elders accompanied I 1 allied them fifteen or twenty miles and tad teft left them 1 i in good spirits elder richards returned to manchester the same evening and elder young on the I 1 monday 7 this evening elders kimball woodruff and GA G A smith mith preached south I 1 temperance hisil london elder john benbow who had previously fur far dished two t 0 hundred and fifty pounds towards printing lo 10 the hymn book book of mornion ac I 1 relinquished all claim to said except such i i assistance as his friends who might wish to ami p mf j grate to america the next seratin might neady i trying ieving I eving the remainder to the disposal of brigham Brig liam young willard richards aud and wilford woodruff who iwho borrowed said moneys for the benefit of the church of jesus christ of vitter ij itter day saints for over ever also the avails of the gadfield elm chapel when sold wednesday R there was a terrific storm on the north of scotland I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 friday I 1 11 I 1 there wits was a tei terrible earthquake biake at mount ararat which destroyed the town of ma kit chevan damaged all the at erivan and devastated the two districts of Sha and Sour mate in armenia A mass was loosened from froin men moeut tit ararat and destroyed ev everything ary in its way for nearly five milos miles the tae village of was buried with one n thousand tit inhabitants h a bit i ants sunday sanday 13 elder baptized four hi london monday lath my father joseph smith senior Patria patriarch reh of tile the whole Clig church reli of jesus christ of latter day saints died at nauvoo he was born bora an on the alth day of july 1771 iu in topsfield Tops field eael county tie was the second of the seven sins af asahel and mary I 1 smith asahel was barq in ath 1744 lie hit was the youngest son soil of df simiuel Sini uel and priscilla smith samuel was burn born january 1714 in topsfield Tops field he was the eldest son of samuel and rebecca smith samuel was vas born in fu tops field january 1666 and was tho the son of f robert robart and mary smith sinith who emigrated 1 from old england 1 I 1 my father removed with I 1 his father fa to tunbridge orange county court tv vermont Verni ont in 1791 and insisted aisted in ili clearia clearing a large farm of a apay heavy growth t it of timber we he married marr jed lucy daughter of drw J solomon 01 omon and L 11 clydla diat mack on the bf january 1796 by whom bom he hak had I 1 alvin smithy born fob fab lith 1798 died nov I 1 im im 1894 hyrum bora baru 1800 I 1 sophromia Soph rouia 49 may alth 1803 joseph I 1 ic dec 1805 samuel I 1 harrlson harrison Is march 1808 I 1 ephraim Eph Kuin 11 t makr march 1304 1810 died march 1810 I 1 1 1 william y 1 I march maich 1811 catherine 4 july 1812 don curios marci lucy r july 1824 t at hill hia marriage he owned a handsome farm i in n tunbridge tu abridge ju in inoue rented renta it andea and engaged in meroa mercantile business and soon after embarked ro barked in a venture of ginseng to send to china and was swindled butof out att the entire proceeds prop eeds by the shipmaster and agent ho he was consequently obliged to sell ills his farm and all of his effects to pay his s I 1 debts I 1 I 1 about the year 1818 1918 he removed to palmyra wyne county now new york bought it a farm farin and cleared acres acrea which he lost ili ia abris eie ei e of f not being able to pay the last installment of the money at the time it was dup this was the thac essae aae esth a great numb maniber na niber of farner fu i broer in in new york who had calept cleared land lad tin tinder der similar sli allar contracts he afterwards arnov moved ea to manchester i ontario county newyork new york I 1 procured I 1 a abbel with 6 acres acrea of rand a where he lived livedis anul aul lie be tok to grupd u ohio I 1 r he ggs ws flie first person afo received my tekli tes ti after biad beep hii the angel and exhorted me to be OB faithful and diligent to the messaged message I 1 had received he ws wot baptized 1830 1 in ab in cora company pany with my brother don cagos carboa 1 he be took ja fl mission to st lawrence york on his roulean rou route leat sev iral atral of the Cahail inn ports where he be distributed at a few copies of tho book of mormon visited his father brothers ayd aud sister slater residing fit st lawrence county na y bore testimony to the truth wah result td zu eventually ll yin m all taa family coming into tile the church excepting his hia brother jess i o sawn savan sai I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 heren HeTe with his finnity to kirtland in 1831 was ordained patriarch and president of th eHigh priesthood under the handset oliver cowdery sidney frederick G williams anday self on alib of 1833 was if a member of the fir high council organized oil on alie tl of february Feb ruay 1834 when lie he confer coti ferre redon don we roe and ray my brother brio samuel H a fathers oles bles I 1 sing aing ln 1836 be e traveled in compi company iny with his bro broth thor xo p aw nuee es in new york nan Pen tania vermont eimont and new hampshire Hampe Harp hire shim is I 1 it 1 n I 1 the branches of the q hureh in those states and bestowing patriarchal blessings blessing on several huldd pers preaching preach big tile gospel to al all who w ho would acar ba r mid baptizing many I 1 the they y arrived lit kirt t abid I 1 ft ad of october 1836 I 1 in lyall q 0 was 04 in a p prisoner ri I 1 but fortun fortunately itel obtained his bis libeks Q after a very tedious jo I 1 j ik the ring ind sarn mer of af 1838 he eat D llouel llo urt url V after I 1 audi 4 A were thrown in into to abe le y b bat 10 lied fled from under th the exterminating a r il lilbarn W boap imade w h I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 in ill midwinter to Qui quincy licy illinois frani raw ach whence ho he removed ved to commerce aein in the spring 1839 the exposure exposures she he suffered brought on n cori a ori of which he died on tins this day of Sep september tamber 1840 aged 69 years two months and two days he was 6 feet ia high was ver very y straight and remarkably wh firo proportioned portioned his hig ordinary weight was about lbs ibs find he be wits was very strong aud and active in MR his young n 11 days he was filmed famed its as a wrestler and jacob ai hk 0 he never wrestled wt with th but one anan whom he be could not throw he go was one of the most belie benevolent volen of men meni opening his house to alt all wh who ovre were destitute while at utincy Qt incy illinois he fed s of the poor p r saints who were flying from the missouri bour i persecutions alteio lie he had arrived arrive d there penniless himself I 1 I 1 his funeral amoral ag attended on tuesday is bhela when the following address addre was delivered by elder Elde robert rRobert B thompson aon the athe occasion which has brought us this day is ope one olio of no ordinary hu importance portON for I 1 not got has had a a single I la family to mourn mour rl aad pd sop sar row rolv on account 1 bf the death of tile the dividu af funeral otiquia s we hie atty clebra 1 but buta a whole society yea lea thousands will 0 this I 1 day have to say a tar jib in jymm 1 is istone gone the man nian wliam we have been accustomed to look O ok up toasa to asa Patri patriarch ark a father and a i counselor 4 is no more moreau an of mortal mortality iq he I 1 has baa dropped bisby his clay tenement lit bid adieu to terrestrial scenes and hits his spirit 1 nav now free and bared reams and expatiates in i that world where the spirits of just men made ma do perfect dwell and where pain and jilk sickness copt tribulation and death I 1 cannot come s tife the friends we have lost los prior to ow our late venerable ori ablit and lamented father were such ascender 1 ed life sweet andja d in society we took great pleas pleasure ro and who aed a bistre in tiie the several walk of af lifa in ili which they moved andio and to whom we feet endeared by y friendships sacred ties their virtues anaf kindnesses will long be remembered by the sorrowing widow tile the disconsolate husband the wd weeping elling dU children I 1 aron the almost distracted and heartbroken brak parent and by a large cirel varent of acquaintances in ana frie frieu rids djs these Thes like elike theatt the stars irp in yonder firmament shon e in several and sued that station an which they had been called ili by tw the providence of god with h honor to themselves aud to the cli church arch wid and w we feet feel to mingle our tears 1 with 1 their surviving relatives I 1 i 1 but on oil this occasion lati jve we reit realize lize that we have 8 suffered more than ai an bereavement and coli consequently we feet feel ther the more izore 1 interested ii ite rested irever if ever there was a man who had ila claims hris oil the affect affections ians of the I 1 com community ra unity it ats waff our beloved but now dece deceased meI patriarch if ever there was all event eveah calculated to raise the feelings of sorrow in thin th human buman breast and cause us to drop di op the sympathetic th etl tear it certainly is tb the present for forA truly ruly we can say with ohp the X king it 9 0 of f israel A prince and a great man has fallen I 1 a in israel A man mail endeared cousby to us by every feeling calculated to entwine around ind and adhere io to ilie hunan heart beart by almost indissoluble 1 bonds A mau man faithful to his god and to the in ili every si situation tuition and tinder mider dil all cir cu which he was called callea to bass pass whether in prosperity surrounded by the somi domi forts of life a smiling progeny and abid alethe all the enjoy 1 J menis of the domestic decle called u upon pon rike like the patriarchs of old to leave the land of his I 1 11 I 1 s nativity to journey in strange lands and become surged to all tn tha trials and persecutions i which havo have been heaped aped he upon the saints with a liberal liand hand ty by characters destitute of every principle ni of morality Wora lity or ar religion reli on alike regardless of he tender d r offspring tile aged sire whose silvery locks 0 4 and nd fun furrowed owed cheeks ought to have been a sufficient shield from their cruell cruelty Y but like the apostle paul he could exclaim and his life and conduct haye have fully borne art out the sentiment I 1 men t ajoue of these thi things gs move me neither caunt I 1 my ife dea deat so that I 1 may inay finish rrt my course with joy I 1 I 1 I 1 tile the principles ijes of the gosp gospel e too well established I 1 itt a that breast I 1 and had got sure a footing there ever ev er to be torn do doan oe or prostrated by the fierce winds of li persecution the blasts of poverty or the swollen waves wave of distress wid trib no iao thank god his hou house se was built upon po it a rocc co s stood amid the contending 1 I elemente elem eMte hn unshaken n I 1 the life father has indeed been an eventful one having to take a conspicuous part in the great wark work I 1 of the lust last days being designated t by tile tiie ancient prophets who once dwelt on ell chii lis as tile the father of him whom I 1 I 1 the lord bad promised to raise up tip in chelist the last list days to lead his people israel and by a uniform I 1 consistent cousis tent and virtuous course for a long series of years he har hai proved himself worthy 01 of such a son and such a 4 amily by bv whom he had bad tile the happiness of being surrounded in ili liis his dying m moments 0 most mok of whom had tile the satisfaction of receiving ceiling his dying benediction 1 he was already in the wane of life hen the light of truth broke in upon the world boridy arld and with pleasure lie he hailed its benign and enlightening rays ray rayland sand an was ws chosen by the almighty to 0 be e one of the witnesses to the chebook book of korpon Mor pon froni that time ills his only aim was at the promotion of t truth ith his bis soul was up ap alt with ta tue things 4 of the kingdom ills his bowels yoa yearned aped over tile the I 1 ell children 11 adje of of men and I 1 vivas more than ills his meat and his drink to do the will of lils ins rather father who is in ili hea heaven verr by un nce aBing industry of himself and family lip he had secure secured 4 a home in tite the state of new ew york where he no iio doubt expected with very every honest and citizen to enjoy the I 1 blessings b I 1 jessings of 01 peace eacil and liberty but when the p principles of vath truth were introduced and d the gospel of jo jesus christ irist was promulgated by himself and family friends forsook enemies raged and persecution was resorted to by wicked and ungodly men in i that he helas vas obliged to flae from that place anderek a homet leoine in ia arbore a hospi hospitable tale land in ohio he met ait with many manir kindard kin daud jeue friends and was mas kindly welcomed by tile the saints many of continue to th this is day andwan call 16 to mind the various scenes which th there ere transpired many iny ot of which opre were of such a nature as not I 1 to bi be easily obliterated while the house of the lord was building lie he I 1 took toa great interest in its itil erection and daily watched its progress iud and had the pleasure of taking ai part at the opening aad seeing it crowded lif hun hundreds d 9 of pious worshippers wor shippers As the king of israel longed for far and desired to see tile completion of the house of tho the lord sq edid aid he be and w with ith 14 hiB he could oto lahn 0 10 lord V 1 love the habitation of f thine house and the place where here thuie thine hor honor to dwell in ill the house hoase of lid lord aird arid to I 1 enquire in his temple was his dailyda daily delight I 1 and ili it it he 6 enjoyed many blessings and mart enany hours in sweet communion with his hi heavenly has trod its sacred alloys stilita solitary ry and ebone alone froni long before the kingbay has gilded the easte eastern i rn hb fand d behas he has uttered tiered his as pi rations within its wals when nature natum ba haff beert aslea P in I 1 i i holy hajy enclosures have the visions jOns af pf heaved cep e n opened op e n ed to his aud and his hia boul lm hw feasted feasta on the riches richeson of eternity and there file teachings have the et and humble been deen instructed while the wid avid ow and the orphan have haie I 1 received his bis patriarchal blessings I 1 there he be saw sav tho work WK spreading reading ap far alid wide saw the elders eiders of israel Isra elgo jo forth under his blessing blessi Ag fIg bore them up by tf vi prayer of faith abad hailed them thein 1 wel dople lybee kiy acey utia aaen returned ref arned bringing I 1 9 wit e thera J e ra with lifis his aged partner b 4 open py days day in the bosom of bis fawlk V ed d wlm oil a ll 11 the teoder I 1 I 1 icess f I 1 I 1 ife A and n d on the I 1 I 1 1 I 1 es i of abich yea by 0 fd patriarch but shall pass to im a xea J vs roe truly painful and id tryl t 1 1 I 1 1 11 1 Z 1 I 1 1 I i tile the I 1 scene soon abon v vanished il I 1 shed the C alm I 1 in 1 was soon succeeded try by a storm and the frail bark was driver driven by the tero pest aud foaming ocean for mail y who had once been proud to acknowledge him a father and il 8 friend aud who sought counsel at his lla hands nap joined with ith tile thy crier enemies nier of truth and sought his destruction and would bit naye e rejoiced to we see his aged and venerable form im aured in |