Question: Did Joseph and others with him remove their garments in order to avoid being identified as polygamists?

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Did Joseph and others with him remove their garments in order to avoid being identified as polygamists?

Criticism

  • Critics claim that prior to leaving for Carthage, that Joseph Smith removed his garments, and advised others to remove theirs, in order to avoid identification as polygamists.

To see citations to the critical sources for these claims, [[../CriticalSources|click here]]

Response

Did Joseph and others remove their temple garments prior to leaving for Carthage?

What were the reasons for removing their garments?

"Elder John Taylor confirmed the saying that Joseph and Hyrum and himiself were without their robes in the jail at Carthage, while Doctor Richards had his on, but corrected the idea that some had, that they had taken them off through fear. W. W. Phelps said Joseph told him one day about that time, that he had laid aside his garment on account of the hot weather." [1]

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Conclusion

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Endnotes

[note] George D. Smith (ed), An Intimate Chronicle The Journals of William Clayton, 222-24.

Further reading

FAIR wiki articles

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FAIR web site

  • FairMormon Topical Guide: Martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith FairMormon link
  • Lance Starr, "Was Joseph Smith a Martyr or a Murderer?," (Mesa, Arizona: FAIR, May 2003) PDF link

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External links

  • Joseph I. Bentley, "Martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith," in Encyclopedia of Mormonism, 4 vols., edited by Daniel H. Ludlow, (New York, Macmillan Publishing, 1992), 2:860–862. FAIR link
  • Reed Blake, "Martyrdom at Carthage," Ensign (June 1994): 30.off-site
  • Stephen R. Gibson, "Was Joseph Smith Really a Martyr?," in One-Minute Answers to Anti-Mormon Questions (Bountiful, Utah: Horizon Publishers, 2005) ISBN 0882907840. off-site
  • W. John Walsh, "Was Joseph Smith a Martyr?" off-site

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Printed material

  • Dallin H. Oaks and Marvin S. Hill, Carthage Conspiracy, the Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith (Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1979), 1. ISBN 025200762X. (Key source)

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