His parents, Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith ... Alvin, their eldest, was born in 1798, and Hyrum two years later. The family moved to Sharon in 1804, onto farmland rented from Lucy ...

In 1823, Joseph Smith said he was visited by an angel named ... much of his adult life and was killed along with his brother Hyrum by a mob in Carthage, Illinois, on June 27, 1844.

On Feb. 4, 1846, a year and a half after the deaths of Joseph Smith and Hyrum Smith, the first families left Nauvoo, Illinois ...