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Smith's sons Joseph III and David were too young: Joseph was aged 11, and David was born after Smith's death. [14] The Council of Fifty had a theoretical claim to succession, but it was a secret organization. [b] Two of Smith's chosen successors, Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer, had already left the church. [15]
Joseph Smith was born on December 23, 1805, in Vermont, on the border between the villages of South Royalton and Sharon, to Lucy Mack Smith and her husband Joseph Smith Sr., a merchant and farmer. [6] He was one of eleven children. At the age of seven, Smith had a bone infection and, after receiving surgery, used crutches for three years. [7]
Smith was born in Vermont in 1805, and his family moved to New York in 1817. At age 20, Smith—described in court records as "Joseph the glasslooker"—faced his first criminal charge, a misdemeanor count of being a "disorderly person". In 1830, he faced the same charge. Smith left New York for Ohio.
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An 1841 engraving of Cumorah (looking south), where Joseph Smith said he was given golden plates by an angel named Moroni, on the west side, near the peak.. Cumorah (/ k ə ˈ m ɔːr ə /; [2]), also known as the Sacred Grove, is a drumlin in Palmyra, New York, United States, [3] where Joseph Smith said he found a set of golden plates which he translated into English and published as the Book ...
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Shortly thereafter, Joseph's eldest brother, Alvin, dies. Smith meets and marries Emma Hale, against the objections of her parents. A few years later, Smith retrieves and translates the golden plates. During one session of translation, Smith and his scribe, Oliver Cowdery, pray to learn more about a