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Carthage Jail; Carthage, Illinois
Carthage Jail, where Joseph Smith was killed on June 27, 1944; Carthage, Illinois; postcardPhotograph
Joseph Smith Collection
Copies of legal documents concerning the arrest and death of Joseph Smith, founder of the LDS church.; Background; Records; Miscellaneous Legal Documents; Smith, Joseph Jr., Hyrum Smith, Wm. Smith, legal document, 2 pp., 4 June 1844; Coolidge, Joseph W., legal document, 10 April 1848, 2 pp. (Carthage); Amos Davis vs. Joseph Smith, Orson Spencer & John P. Green, 24 February 1844, 2 pp. (Carthage); Smith, Mary, legal document, 22 May 1846, 2 pp. (Carthage); Davis vs. Smith, 6 August 1844, 2 pp. See #3; Davis vs. Smith, 23 May 1844, 1 p.; Davis vs. Smith, 23 May 1844, 2 pp.; Davis vs. Smith, 19 March 1844, 2 pp.; Davis vs. Smith, Subpoena for R. D. Foster, C. I. Higbee, & C. A. Foster, 21 May 1844, 3 pp. (Carthage); Smith, Mary, 13 August 1844, 2 pp. (Carthage); Thomas Ford, subpoena, 19 May 1845, 2 pp.; Riley, John & Hyrum Smith, 27 December 1844, 1 p. (Nauvoo); Smith, Hyrum & A. W. Babbitt, 20 November 1840, 2 pp. (Pleasant Garden, Indiana).; Smith, Joseph Jr., Porter Rockwell & others, 25 June 1844, 3 pp. ( Expositor); Joseph Smith Estate, 30 June 1844, 2 pp.; Joseph Smith Estate Papers, 28 November 1844, 2 pp.; Babbitt, A. W., 29 August 1844, 2 pp.; Ferris, John M., 8 August 1848, 2 pp.; McKee, James, 2 September 1848, 1 p.; Coolidge, Joseph W., 19 September 1844, 2 pp.; Smith, Emma, 29 August 1844, 2 pp.; Richardson, W. A. & Joseph Smith estate, 9 November 1845, 2 pp.; Coolidge, Joseph W., 3 April 1849, 2 pp.; The People vs. Joseph Smith, Subpoena , 26 June 1844, 2 pp.; Babbitt, A. W., 8 August 1844, 2 pp.; Smith, Joseph Jr. 10 April 1842, 2 pp.; Coolidge, Joseph W., 28 July 1845, 2 pp. (Nauvoo); Davis vs. Smith, 24 May 1844, 2 pp.; State of Illinois vs. Chancy Higbee, 28 November 1844, 2 pp.; Highee, Chauncy L, subpoena for Nancy Rigdon, Sarah Pratt, Emiline White & Others 3 October 1842, 2 pp.; Estate Papers of Emma Smith as guardian, 3 May 1847, 12 pp.; Smith, Emma, 5 August 1851, 2 pp.; Bidamon, Emma, 30 July 1851, 2 pp.; Smith, Joseph, 22 June 1844, 1 p.; Smith, Joseph, cot. 19, B44, 1 p.; Smith, Joseph & Emma Smith, 17 July 1844, 1 p.; Smith, Joseph, Bill, 14 April 1845, 2 pp.; Smith, Joseph, estate papers, 22 May 1845, 6 pp.; Long, Rosaman, Charge of Bigamy, 27 March 1843, 2 pp.; Long, Rosaman, 27 March 1843, 2 pp. [See # 39]; Long, Rosaman, 27 March 1843, 2 pp.; List of the murders of Joseph & Hyrum Smith, 9 June 1845, 2 pp.; Smith, John--infant, 18 May 1846, 3 pp.; Estate of Edward Lawrence, 6 May 1845, (Joseph Smith guardian), 5 pp.; Farmer, Franklin, 23 March 1843, 2 pp.; Higbee, Chauncy, 3 October 1842, 3 pp.; Robinson, Ebenezer, 14 September 1842, 3 pp. (Higbee); Bidamon, Emma, 30 April 1848, 4 pp.; Higbee, C. S., 10 September 1842, 1 p.; Higbee, Chauncy, 24 May 1842, 2 pp.; Smith, David H., 3 May 1847, 3 pp.; Smith, Emma, 17 July 1844, 2 pp.; Smith, Joseph, 12 June 1847, 6 pp.; Davis vs. Smith, 8 May 1844, 2 pp.; Verdict of Jury, Joseph Smith for purgery, 23 October 1845, 4 pp.; People vs. Perry, 23 October 1844, 2 pp.; Davis vs. Smith, 23 May 1844, 3 pp.; Davis vs. Smith, 23 May 1844, 2 pp.; Subpoenas for the murders of Joseph Smith; Smith, David H., 3 May 1844, 2 pp.; People vs. Joseph Smith, 25 June 1844, 5 pp.; People vs. Joseph Smith, May term of Hancock County Court, 1844, 3 pp.; People vs. Smith, 27 May 1844, 3 pp.; Materials concerning Franklin A. Worrell collected at Carthage; Estate papers of Thomas C. Shar
The Day Joseph Smith Was Killed
Joseph and Hyrum Smith were killed on June 27, 1844, in the recently constructed jail in Carthage, Illinois. Years later, local resident Amanda Benton Smith recorded her own account of the events of that day. Twenty-eight years old and a mother of six, Amanda was the wife of Carthage Grey captain Robert F. Smith—the militia officer responsible for protecting the Latter-day Saint prisoners and defending the town. In her reminiscence, Amanda describes learning of the Smiths’ deaths and draws a vivid picture of the vacant Hancock County seat as local citizens fled to the countryside in anticipation of the Latter-day Saints’ retaliation, which never came
Carthage Jail-Illinois P.19
24351 Carthage Jail showing the assassination of Joseph Smith. Assassination of Joseph Smith, from The Rocky Mountain Saints, by T.B.H. Stenhouse. P.16
Court house, scene of trial of the murderers of Joseph and Hyrum Smith, Carthage, Ill.
Black and white stereograph of the court house in Carthage, Illinois, scene of the trial of the murderers of Joseph and Hyrum Smith
Carthage Jail-Illinois P.1
Carthage Jail. Where Joseph & Hyrum Smith were assassinated. Utah Writers\u27 Project
Carthage Court House P.2
Courthouse, scene of trial of the murderers of Joseph and Hyrum Smith, Carthage, Illinois
[Monnaie : Statère, Électrum, Carthage, Zeugitane]
Ancien possesseur : Smith-Lesouëf. Ancien possesseurAppartient à l’ensemble documentaire : MonnGr
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