Smith Family Cemetery - Nauvoo, Illinois
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BruceS
N 40° 32.440 W 091° 23.538
15T E 636147 N 4489010
Marker for the family cemetery for the Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saints movement, family and friends in Nauvoo, Illinois.
Waymark Code: WMF9PQ
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 09/15/2012
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Text of marker:
Smith Family Cemetery
The Smith Family Cemetery is the final resting palce of Joseph Smith, his wife Emma, and brother Hyrum, Lucy Mack and Joseph Smith Sr., and many other family members and friends.
After Joseph and Hyrum were assassinated at teh Carthage jail on June 27, 1844, their bodies were returned to Nauvoo where they laid in state in the dining room of teh Mansion House. Fearing for the safety of the bodies, the coffins were emptied and buried in a tomb near the temple while the bodies were secretly buried between the foundation walls of the Nauvoo House. When constructin of the Nauvoo House resumed in 1845 they were secretly reburied under a small building (now reconstructed) southwest of the Homestead.
In 1928, Frederick Madison smith, president and prophet of the church from 1915-1946 and grandson of Joseph Smith Jr., hired Kansas City, Missouri surveyor W.O. Hands to located teh unmarked graves of Joesep and Hyrum. Once located, the were moved a few feet north and reburied a final time.
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