I have a question....how did B. Young and J. Smith die?
In their sleep? Or...some other way?
PLEASE don’t go to wiki or Google....does anyone REALLY know???
Thanks!
Joseph Smith was being held in a jail when a mob attacked and killed him. That’s as much as I remember at the moment without checking other sources.
Me? Joseph Smith was in jail for treason. He had declared martial law and called out the Nauvoo Legion. That was his own created army and he gave himself the rank of General. He referred to himself as General Smith and wore a General's uniform. This was after he had ordered the Nauvoo Expositor (a newspaper) destroyed and the type scattered because it had printed one copy that, among other things, accused him of polygamy. At the time, Joseph Smith publicly lied and said he wasn't a polygamist, although he had many wives, including women who were already married to other men, 14-year old girls, and girls he had pressured into marrying him by telling them the eternal souls of Smith and their entire families depending on them marrying Smith.
While in the jail, he had also ordered the Nauvoo Legion to come rescue him. They didn't. They and the Danites had already been involved in deadly action against non-Mormons, including the U.S. military. Mormons smuggled pistols into the jail to Smith and his brother. When a mob came, Smith shot and killed at least two men. Springing to the window, he called out the disgress sign of the Masons, but was shot and killed after murdering two men. So, he was in jail for committing treason, after ordering destruction of a printing press for exposing his polygamy, and was killed after murdering two men, while trying to give the Masonic sign of distress.
Brigham Young was almost certainly poisoned by arsenic by one of his wives.
Do I pass?