an armed mob stormed into Carthage Jail and took the lives of the prophet Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum Smith. Smith and members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were in ...

Born on December 23, 1805, in Sharon, Vermont, to Joseph and Lucy Mack Smith, Joseph Smith Jr. grew ... along with his brother Hyrum by a mob in Carthage, Illinois, on June 27, 1844.

With the coming Monday marking the 219th anniversary of Joseph Smith’s birth in Sharon ... old religious leader June 27, 1844, at a jail in Carthage, Illinois. • On the day he died, he ...