Show Biography of Brigham Young and History of th the e Mormon Church I M. M R. R Werner Verner in in Ladies Home Hom Journal After Atter the forcible suppression ot rt their newspaper William Law ann ami I his hill a associates left Nauvoo for tae tle neighboring cit city of Carthage which I was composed largely of f anU- anU anti Mor tor- tor mon people They swore swore Oll a warrant warrant war war- rant for tho the arrest of Joa Joseph ph Smith Smail and his bis s Nauvoo Common Cot COl and Joseph Smiths Smith's muni ii tl coin COH with powers under the Inar Nauvoo charter charler promptly rc I the prophet t and his associates by hy a I writ nil of habeas corpus corfu This 1 use ice C o of the charter whipped the people of Carthage into a fury First they ked eked Governor Ford for the militia Ford visited Carthage and when h h- arrived there on Juno June 21 Ul ne ile an armed force of citizens rl ready nd to arrest Smith lh and his common coun coun- Goffer nor Ford addresses i t meetIng meeting meet- meet Ing of or mob and militia at Cart Carthage has and assured them thou that Joeph Smith would be made mado to answer charges harge for tor the suppression of the Nauvoo but t he be alto also ba no personal harm mu must t come to him II until the law la had authorized It it and ana he tent sent Smith notice DOUM to appear ai u Carthage to to answer the charge made against him Meanwhile the prophet had declared Nauvoo to ve be e under f I martial law and no one was waa allowed to enter o orto to leave leavo the ct city V without strict search h. h On Monday June Jane 24 I J Joseph ph Smith SIth hi his hla brother Hyrum Byrum and all ail thu members b a of or the Ule Municipal Common Council of or Nauvoo went t Carthage to 10 surrender mader themselves theme on chart char M Mot S 3 I of ot riot lot All except Joseph Smith 7 and nd Ms his brother Hyrum Brum were wen discharged till dis charged on oa ball but the tho two to leadens loaders tado tad load o ers ens were held In jail aU on a charge se 01 of because Smith b had declared a Nauvoo under martial law which he hethe he t i the charge charse said uld amo d to a J ilk declaration del dec i i ft ot o war again the state ot or i i Illinois At the gore 0 ni or ug lot Ioa I I the brothers were e. showed alar e a lar laJ o room in the Ille Carthage air jata at I whore where they could tee Me some lome oL ot th their ther I I I I I I friends On Thursday June 27 a sultry summer day Governor Ford went to te Nauvoo 1 with a force 0 or voluntary soldiers to address the Mormons and assure them that their prophet have fair pia play The prisoners mea mear while spent the afternoon with John Jahn Taylor Talor who was visiting them At about five o'clock in the j evenn-j there was a noise in the compound outside the jail jan followed I by a few rifle shots Then men rushed rush l up the stairs of the jail to the room in the tH second story where the prisoners were sitting Tho The door of the room was pushed open oven and shots were fired fired fired fir fir- ed at the prisoners and their ors Hyrum Smith was hit in e e taco fac and the head and fell crying c. I ant n f dead man As he was falling three more bullets struck him anc am 1 killed him Th The Prophets Prophet's ts Untimely End Joseph Smith had a revolver which a I friend had smuggled into the jail Jan and with this he wounded three of the mob When ho he could no nu longer keep them from rom entering tilt tile room he be rushed for the window to I Jump out when a ball struck him and he tell fell out ont of or tho the window shouting O 0 Lord my God It IS Ts said laid that when the prophets prophet body hit the ground he was wn still alive One of the R assailing mob propped it up against the wall van of n Pa 3 well four fou men advanced eight paces and roa their rifle balls baUs Into lt U. U and Josepn died i I I I According to lo Mormon accounts the mob that killed their prophet and their patriarch was made up 01 of about one hundred and fifty met men with their faces disguised b by black paint Elder Stevenson estimated that a athe aa a- the time of his death the was wa thirty eight years year IX ex mow mon s s rand and six Is da days old and that it was waR just fourteen years ears two months an anc ne da days after the tbt foundation of the Mormon church when I Us is prophet was vas killed The bodies of Joseph Joaeph and were removed from the jail to lIal Hac- Hac mon Ilton's Hotel in Carthage A rev fe- e. e days lAter Uter the bodies of the prop e rand and d the patriarch were taken to toI toOn On Oa Lost Last Page Pace From Page On One BRIGHAM 1 YOUNG Nauvoo greeted with wailing an ante and buried burled near Joseph Smiths Smith's former home He had c c e- e pressed a wish to be buried burled in i a tomb near the temple but ut Emma Emm Smith objected and refused to allow the he the church to carry out that wis wish thousand Mormons gathered around round the bodies of their dead leaders The memory of f the prophet was perpetuated a few days lIars later The TIte rough ough boards bo-ards which had been used as s temporary coffins were sawed in and distributed among Josephs Joseph's Josph's Jos- Jos phs ph's and I Hyrum's rums friends who had haa canes anes made of or them each with a alock aock lock ock of oC the prophets prophet's hair hall set in the top op These canes are considered sacred acred relics today todar By their reckless shots on that thai June dune day the men of Carthage se a new religion on a firm basis anu instead of aiding alding to to exterminate Mormonism which was as their avowed avowed avow ayo ed object they created In In the mines minds of or man many thousands the Idea or a day latter J Jesus us el-us Christ Mormonism Mormon Mormon- ism sm had developed all aU the paraphernalia paraphernalia her her- nalia with ancient Christianity It only lacked a martyr and the moo mOD supplied the they final touch with generosity Joseph vas was a assassinated at ex the right t time ime for his Ilis religion however true cruel and unfortunate his death was for Cor himself as he did during the rew last ast years of ot his life in all pro probability ability his church would nave naye nee nee- broken into splinters oy uy the impact of or his o own on n ambitious pretensions or smashed into lUto kindling by the rage raSe of hostile mobs 1 ord made an enort erron to discover the or Josepn Joseph and Hyrum i smith and to bring to o trial HUt nut the tho mOb moo was aeter- aeter mined that should not oe ue pus pus- ana more than a 3 a men under arms guarded the court courtroom room Toom to keep awa away Mormons who might sit on the jury or bear testimony mony The accused were all aCi ac ac- i Claimants for the Keys When Joseph Smiths Smith's body fell from Crom the window ledge to the ground outside Carthage jail on that sultry in June 1 44 Brigham Brigham Brig Brig- ham Young was in the railway stion s s- s slon lon UOn at Boston Haston w waiting to take the tim rain to salem ahem it was almost two weeks after that he lie first first heard the news and he hurried to Nauvoo with the others of the apostles whom he ie could gather on the way He m may mec Or Orson on Pratt Orson Hyde and Wilford Wilford Wil- Wil ford Cord Woodruff at Albany and nd trav traveled traveled travel travel- ld l- l ed d the rest of oC the way with them Brigham Young wrote that the first thing he thought of at upon hear hear- hearing Ing ng of oC the death of oC the prophet was who now had the l keys eys of oC the kingdom kingdom kingdom king king- dom The first thing tb thil i thought bought of was whether Joseph Joeph had taken aken the keys of the kingdom him lira from the e earth Brother Drother Orson Pratt sat on my left we were both leaning back on our chairs Bringing Bring ing jag my hand down on my knee I 1 Isaid Isaid said The keys kes of oC the kingdom dom aro are right here with the church Perhaps Brigham Young meant to tol imply l by boY th that t gesture th that t the keys koys or of the Kingdom were right there in ii his liis pocket but be that th-at as J at t ma may he lie soon decided that if It they worn n nit t there he was going to pick he lockAs lock As soon as Sidney Ri hear of Joseph Smiths Smith's death he hurr eT back to Nauvoo He arrived theton there thet thereon on August 3 3 1844 almost a wee wees before BrIgham Young In gad and he lie stet ret about trying to rapture capture the control of the headless church He urged that a conference o of ti tl people Ople he called at once and he he the people peole that he had been sI 1 ny jv JY heaven to be their and be he received several to corroborate the appointment He finally finall- su In tn arranging a ea- ea a- a ference tE-rence of the people for August 1 a. a The Conference was first set for Tor ur up- C G but it was postponed and l t was this delay delav which was fatal t tc Sidney Ridney Rigdon's Ri dons don's plans for a Young and amI the apostles reached ached Non Nau- m- m Too yoo at eight o'clock in the evening of oC August 6 G. 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