Elder Neil L. Andersen and his wife, Sister Kathy Andersen, speak about multiple witnesses of the prophetic calling of Joseph ...
wrote historian Richard Bushman in Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling. Smith’s mother grew up in gloomy circumstances, depressed by death and illness. She later wrote that she spent her ...
Born on December 23, 1805, in Sharon, Vermont, to Joseph and Lucy Mack Smith, Joseph Smith Jr. grew up on a series of tenant farms in Vermont, New Hampshire, and New York. Though in his youth ...