Not all the Lds "prophet" quotes made about moon people arise from second-hand sources named Huntington.
Greyfoxx39 cited Brigham Young: Who can tell us of the inhabitants of this little planet that shines of an evening, called the moon? ...when you inquire about the inhabitants of that sphere you find that the most learned are as ignorant in regard to them as the most ignorant of their fellows. So it is with regard to the inhabitants of the sun. Do you think it is inhabited? I rather think it is. Do you think there is any life there? No question of it; it was not made in vain. Source: Journal of Discourses, Vol. 13, p. 271...1870 --
So this was a false prophesy made by Young (yes, no, or typical Mormon crickets' answer when forced to face reality?)
Here Brigham Young had already been leading the Lds church for over 25 years or so when he made the above comment -- including around 25 years as its "prophet."
Brigham Young's first counselor was "apostle" Heber C. Kimball: "Where did the earth come from? From its parents earths...The earth is alive. If it was not, it could not produce." (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 6, p. 36, 1857)
Yeah. We can tell the top two members of the Lds church in the 1850s, 1860s, and 1870s were in touch with the Mormon god if this was their somewhere-over-the-rainbow ramblings.
Well, Colofornian, since you don’t seem to have anything to add to the subject we were talking about (Joseph Smith teaching about moon people), I can only assume that you agree with my assertion that it is very unlikely that Joseph ever really said that quote attributed to him.