Visitors to historic Kirtland, Ohio, and Nauvoo ... from the temple pulpit where Joseph Smith had preached. “I was able to enlighten the huge audience about not only Mormon history but ...

On Feb. 4, 1846, a year and a half after the deaths of Joseph Smith and Hyrum Smith, the first families left Nauvoo, Illinois ...

but his assassination made it clear that the period of relative calm the Mormon faithful had enjoyed in Nauvoo, Illinois, was coming to an end. In 1845 mob violence against the Mormon community ...