Item Detail
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6231
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English
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The Eight Witnesses
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Historical Record
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October 1888
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7
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609-22
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Brief account of experiences of eight wittnesses, and short biographies of Christian Whitmer, Jacob Whitmer, Peter Whitemer, Jr., John Whitmer, Hiram Page, and Samuel Harrison Smith. Briefy section, too, on Mary M. Whitmer, who testified she was shown the plates. Whitmer family is described briefly, and the article includes a nice diagram showing the lifetimes of the witnesses along with their activity in the Church. Samuel Smith's biography containes story of his first mission, including the giving the Book of Mormon to John P. Greene