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Liberty Jail, Clay County, Missouri

September 10, 2017 by shelley

Liberty Jail, Clay County, Missouri

Even though some of the grandchildren had started to leave, B.J., Jenn and family stayed a few days longer allowing for some fun activities with just their family.

We live a stone’s throw from major L.D.S. church history sights in Missouri…

One we visited with B.J., Jenn and family was Liberty Jail, Clay County, Missouri where Joseph Smith was imprisoned  the winter of 1838-39… (for more history)

Liberty Jail, Clay Co Missouri

Pictures from Liberty Jail

Liberty Jail, Clay Co Missouri

Picture of Original Liberty Jail

Original Key Liberty Jail, Clay County Missouri

Original door of Liberty Jail, (owned by Community of Christ)

Liberty Jail, Clay Co Missouri

Liberty Jail, Clay Co Missouri

Liberty Jail, Clay Co Missouri

Liberty Jail, Clay Co Missouri

Picture of Original Extermination Order of the Mormons by Governor Lilburn W. Boggs 1838

Extermination order of the Mormons by Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs 1838

Extermination order of the Mormons by Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs 1838

It would take until the bicentennial of our country 1776 for Governor Kit Bond to rescind this extermination order!

Rescission of Extermination Order by Missouri Governor Kit Bond 1976

Rescission of Extermination Order by Missouri Governor Kit Bond 1976

And in 1998 Governor Mel Carnahan issued a commendation of the Mormons…

Commendation from the State of Missouri signed by Governor Mel Carnahan 1998

Filed Under: Church, Family, Missouri Church History Tagged With: Clay County, Extermination Order, Liberty Jail, Missouri Mormon history, rescinding extermination order

Liberty Jail…Young Women’s Activity

July 13, 2014 by shelley

Liberty Jail…Young Women’s Activity

For our Mutual Activity we went to Liberty Jail, where Joseph Smith was imprisoned over the winter of 1838-39.

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In 1833 a small jail was constructed in Liberty, the seat of Clay County, Missouri. In 1856 the building was abandoned. After a short tenure as an ice house, it fell into disrepair and was finally demolished near the turn of the century. Today, thousands of Latter-day Saints and other tourists visit the partially reconstructed jail and view it as what the LDS historian B. H. Roberts called a “prison temple” because of a notable prisoner it housed: the Prophet Joseph Smith languished within its four-foot-thick walls from December 1, 1838 until April 6, 1839. Sharing this incarceration were his brother Hyrum (see Smith, Hyrum), who served as his second counselor in the presidency of the Church; Sidney Rigdon, his first counselor; and three other brethren-Lyman Wight, Alexander McRae, and Caleb Baldwin.

They were held on a variety of unsubstantiated charges stemming from the “Mormon War” (see Missouri Conflict), which had culminated in their betrayal and the fall of the LDS settlement of Far West, Missouri, a few weeks earlier. As they awaited trial, they suffered severe privation. Confined to the lower level or dungeon portion of the building, they slept on the straw-strewn stone floor with little light and scant protection from the Missouri winter. Alexander McRae described the food they were served as “very coarse, and so filthy that we could not eat it until we were driven to it by hunger” (CHC 1:521). He also recorded that several attempts were made to poison them.

Notwithstanding these trying physical conditions, Joseph Smith’s greater suffering seemed to come from his anguish for the thousands of Latter-day Saints, including his own family, who were being driven from the state under the executive order of Governor Lilburn W. Boggs calling for the extermination of the Mormons (see Extermination Order). In a very long, two-part letter to the Church, written between March 20 and March 25, Joseph cried out, “O God, where art thou? And where is the pavilion that covereth thy hiding place? How long shall thy hand be stayed, and thine eye, yea thy pure eye, behold from the eternal heavens the wrongs of thy people and of thy servants, and thine ear be penetrated with their cries? Yea, O Lord, how long shall they suffer these wrongs and unlawful oppressions?” (D&C 121:1-3).

In answer, he was told to be of good cheer: “My son, peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment; And then, if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high; thou shalt triumph over all thy foes” (D&C 121:7-8). Some of Joseph Smith’s most sublime writings are found in this letter. The counsel of the Lord concerning the proper exercise of priesthood authority (D&C 121:33-46) is among the most quoted latter-day scripture. Excerpts from the letter make up sections 121, 122, and 123 of the Doctrine and Covenants.

In early April 1839, the prisoners were moved to Daviess County for trial; and then while being taken to Columbia, Boone County, on yet another change of venue, they learned from their captors that, for a variety of reasons, it would be agreeable to the officials if they would escape. With the aid of their guards, the prisoners hastened to join the exiled Latter-day Saints who were gathering in western Illinois.

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Filed Under: Church, Missouri Church History Tagged With: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Clay County, Joseph Smith, Liberty Jail, Missouri Church History

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