by Dan Wees | Jan 13, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“On Sunday last I saw and handled the seer stone that the Prophet Joseph Smith had. It was a dark, color, not round on one side. It was shaped like the top of a baby’s shoe, one end like the toe of the shoe, and the other round.” Samuel Bateman, Diary – 17 August 1887...
by Dan Wees | Jan 12, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“It was among an ignorant and credulous people of this kind, capable of believing in the necromantic virtues of a big stone held in a hat, and of treasure descending perpetually under the spades of the searchers by enchantment, a people already prepared for any bold...
by Dan Wees | Jan 12, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“President Young exhibited the Seer’s stone with which the Prophet Joseph discovered the Plates of the Book of Mormon, to the regents this evening. It is said to be a silecious granite dark color almost black with light colored stripes some what resembling...
by Dan Wees | Jan 11, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“‘Mormon Hill’ had been long designated as the place in which countless treasures were buried; Joseph the elder, had ‘spaded’ up many a foot of the hill side to find them, and Joseph, Jr. had on more than one occasion accompanied him.”...
by Dan Wees | Jan 11, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“People of all classes were affected by the urge to find treasure … Excitement over the possibilities of Indian treasure or Spanish gold was at a feverish pitch during the adolescence of Joseph Smith.” Ivan J. Barrett/BYU religion professor, Joseph Smith and the...
by Dan Wees | Jan 11, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“Mr. Alva Hale [Emma’s brother] says: ‘Joe Smith never handled one shovel full of earth in those diggings. All that Smith did was to peep with stone and hat, and give directions where and how to dig, and when and where the enchantment removed the...
