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English
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The Death of Joseph Smith
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American History
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December 2001
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36
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no.5
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54-62
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Details the early history of the Church , culminating with the 1844 arrest and shooting of church founder Joseph Smith and his older brother Hyrum Smith at the hands of an angry mob in Carthage, Illinois. After the Smith brothers' death, church leadership fell to Brigham Young, who led the Mormons to Salt Lake City, Utah, by 1847.