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Mormon leaders immediately proclaimed Pratt as another martyr, [99] [100] with Brigham Young stating, "Nothing has happened so hard to reconcile my mind to since the death of Joseph." Many Mormons held the people of Arkansas collectively responsible. [101] "It was in accordance with Mormon policy to hold every Arkansan accountable for Pratt's ...
After a person died, the living entered into a period of intense mourning. Some even wished death upon themselves in the wake of the death of another. [21] 19th-century Latter-day Saints were encouraged to bereave the dead, and often did so through eloquent obituaries in newspapers.
[49]: 11,13 Singer, also a polygamist, had died in a shootout with police 9 years earlier. [49]: 11 One officer was shot by John's son and others were wounded. [50] June 27, 1988 Texas: 4 O'Clock murders: 4 people Ervil's successor Heber LeBaron of the Church of the Firstborn led the murder of four apostates. [51] November 4, 2019 Sonora, Mexico
It is believed that he died of peritonitis from a ruptured appendix. [155] His last words were "Joseph! Joseph! Joseph!", invoking the name of the late Joseph Smith Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. [156] On September 2, 1877, Young's funeral was held in the Tabernacle with an estimated 12,000 to 15,000 people in attendance. [157]
Latter Day Saint martyrs are persons who belonged to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) or another church within the Latter Day Saint movement who were killed or otherwise persecuted to the point of premature death on account of their religious beliefs, or while performing their religious duties.
In discussing the Mormon pioneer heritage, "there is no hint of polygamy or millennial land claims or any other distinctive Mormon doctrine, just the idea that a prophet Joseph Smith came up with a new sacred book asking people to lead holy lives." [12] Smith dies as a martyr without mention of Mormon destruction of a Nauvoo newspaper, which ...
In 1833, a mob of settlers attacked a Mormon newspaper's printing office, destroyed the press, and tarred and feathered two Mormon leaders. Mormons were driven from Jackson county. [7] [8] After losing the 1838 Mormon War, Smith was jailed and his followers were forced out of Missouri.
The answer, published in July 1838, states, "Moroni, the person who deposited the plates from whence the book or Mormon was translated, in a hill in Manchester, Ontario County, New York, being dead, and raised again therefrom, appeared to me, and told me where they were..." [194] May 11: Apostle William E. McLellin is excommunicated.