Visitors to historic Kirtland, Ohio, and Nauvoo ... The latter group, including founder Joseph Smith’s wife Emma and her children, remained in the Midwest and cared for these properties while ...

On Tuesday afternoon, the Salt Lake City-based faith announced the purchase of the valuable Ohio ... Joseph Smith’s writing desk from the Kirtland Temple. • Emma Smith’s walking stick ...

This violence claimed many lives, including Mormon prophet Joseph Smith's ... Mormons to migrate from New York to Ohio in 1831. There, in Kirtland, Smith received his first taste of mob violence.