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of Northwest Missouri Mound Grove Cemetery |
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of Northwest Missouri Mound Grove Cemetery |
Travelling north about two miles on River Road from the temple lot, on the left hand side of the road, is Mound Grove Cemetery, where the son of the Prophet Joseph Smith's remains are interred. Joseph Smith III remained in Nauvoo with his mother as the main body of saints moved to the Rocky Mountains. He became president of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1860, eventually bringing the headquarters to Independence after the turn of the century. He died in Independence in the fall of 1914.
Two of his sons, both of whom became presidents of the RLDS Church, Frederick Madison and Israel A. Smith, are buried on either side of their father. It is interesting to remember that "Young Joseph" was born upstairs in the Whitney Store in Kirtland, Ohio in February of 1832. Also interred in the cemetery are the remains of three of the Saints that died of cholera at the end of Zion's Camp. These bodies were discovered near Rush Creek in Clay County in 1958, and reburied here in a ceremony that involved both RLDS and LDS Church members in March 1976.
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