by Dan Wees | Jan 19, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“[Lucy Mack Smith] once came to my mother to get a stone the children had found, of curious shape. She wanted to use it as a peepstone.” Samantha (Stafford) Payne – 29 June 1881 affidavit, Ontario County Clerk’s Office, Canandaigua, New York, published in the...
by Dan Wees | Jan 18, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“One day as I was taking Orson [Pratt] and Luke [S. Johnson] down to my Grandfathers [near Sackett’s Harbor, New York] in the carriage; we were passing a spot where but a little time before a thief had hid some money and it could not be found; Luke said to me...
by Dan Wees | Jan 18, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“When I was twelve years old [in 1958], my grandfather, who had been a mission president in the 1940s, gave me a small stone. He was a Latter-day Saint who frequently had visions and dreams. Grandfather said that he found this stone while he was pondering the...
by Dan Wees | Jan 17, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“There are men among us, holding the Holy Priesthood, who in events of their lives would rather stare into a bit of flint-glass that enterprising dealers name a seer-stone, for the solution of their troubles, than to go with the power and authority of their Priesthood...
by Dan Wees | Jan 17, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“[Elias Pulsipher] found a brown colored stone about 2 ½ inches wide and 6 inches long with two holes in it. The Prophet Joseph examined it and declared it to be a seer stone. It is not known if Elias could use it but his daughter could. She located drowned persons,...
by Dan Wees | Jan 16, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“Mormon elders and women [in Kirtland, Ohio] often searched the bed of the river for stones with holes caused by the sand washing out, to peep into. N.K. Whitney’s wife had one. I took it to search for a cot [i.e. bandage] I had lost from my injured finger. She said...
