A morning at Carthage Jail

Carthage Ill. June 20, 2016

Our mini-family reunion.

Joseph and Hyrum memorial walkway.

 “In life they were not divided, and in death they were not separated!

John Taylor

The Carthage jail was run by a little family who actually lived there.

The entrance to the visitor's center.

Quick history of the jail: 

1839- Work began on the jail. This was the year the Mormons came to Nauvoo.

1844: Joseph and Hyrum were martyred at the jail.

1866: Property was auctioned to Bryant F. Peterson for $1100.

1877: James Browning bought property for $1500.
His family lived there for over 30 years.

1903: The Church, under Joseph F. Smith's direction, purchased
the property fro $4000, approximately the cost of the original construction.

1903-1938- The property was leased/rented to individuals for residential use.

1938: Joseph and Eunice McRae were sent to supervise the
restoration to its 1844 appearance.  They stayed for 20 years.

1963: A visitor's center was constructed on the property.

1989- Major renovation was made to the property and
then the site was dedicated on June 27, 1989. 

                                              Malea

The cell where Joseph, Hyrum and the others would have been had the jailer not 

offered his own room. All would have been killed had they been in here.

The jailer's bedroom, where the martyrdom took place.

All listened intently as we heard the dramatization of the last minutes of Joseph's mortal life.

The original door with the bullet hole from the slug that took Hyrum's life.

The window from which the Prophet Joseph jumped in an effort 

to save the lives of the other men with him. 

The prophet was shot and killed as he jumped. 
His body would have landed near here.

Malea and Colton stand on sacred ground.

The Shirley's stand near the well house where Joseph fell.

 

                  Dad and I felt we were on sacred ground.           The Mitchells

 

                                 Bradley, Andy and Nathan                          Joshua

 Nathan

  Profile of a blogger!

 

FOOT RACES AT CARTHAGE! 

 

The Testimony that was sealed with blood.

"Standard of Truth has been erected; no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, 

but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent, till it has penetrated 

every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, 

till the purposes of God shall be accomplished and the Great Jehovah shall say

 THE WORK IT DONE!" Joseph Smith JR.