On June 27, 1844, Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum were murdered by a mob in Carthage, Illinois, while being held on charges of treason.

Hyrum Smith, brother of Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith also attended the college in his teens.

The elder Smith, however, was also called to give Patriarchal blessings to the fatherless within the church, and the church as a whole, a calling he passed onto his eldest surviving son Hyrum Smith prior to his death.

* 1800 – Hyrum Smith, American religious leader ( d. 1844 )

* 1844 – Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are murdered by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.

On June 27, 1844, Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum were killed by a mob in Carthage, Illinois.

Other early Mormons who said they saw Moroni include Emma Hale Smith, Hyrum Smith, Luke S. Johnson, Zera Pulsipher, W. W. Phelps, John P. Greene and his wife Rhoda, John Taylor, Oliver Granger, Heber C. Kimball, Lucy Harris, and Harrison Burgess.

* June 27 – Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum, are killed in Carthage Jail, Carthage, Illinois.

** Hyrum Smith, American religious leader ( b. 1800 )

** Hyrum Smith, American religious leader ( d. 1844 )

The major figures of early Mormon history, including Joseph Smith, Jr., Hyrum Smith, Brigham Young, John Taylor ( Mormon ), Edward Partridge, Sidney Rigdon, Parley P. Pratt and John D. Lee, were included in the migration.

While incarcerated in the Carthage Jail in June 1844, Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, was assassinated by a mob along with his brother Hyrum Smith.

Mill Creek was originally settled by Mary Fielding Smith ( widow of Hyrum Smith ) and her children, including Joseph F. Smith, in 1848.

However since Taylor was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve before the Mormons even arrived in Utah, and was the wounded survivor of the mob attack that killed Joseph and Hyrum Smith, and served at various times as speaker of the Utah Territorial Legislature, naming the town after Taylor at any point from 1847 on is quite believable.

Bennett was called to account by Joseph and Hyrum Smith, and was excommunicated from the church.

In 1844, Taylor was with church founder Joseph Smith, Jr., his brother Hyrum Smith, and fellow LDS leader Willard Richards in the Carthage, Illinois jail when the Smiths were killed by a mob.

Mary Smith visited her husband Hyrum Smith in February with their three month old son, Joseph F. Smith who was named and blessed by his father in custody.

** Hyrum Mack Smith ( 21 March 1872 – 23 January 1918 )

Hyrum Rex Lee ( April 8, 1910 – July 26, 2001 ), usually called H. Rex Lee, was the last non-elected Governor of American Samoa.

Hyrum Mack Smith ( March 21, 1872 – January 23, 1918 ) was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ).

Sometime between June 23 – 27, 1844, Smith reportedly stated that " if he and Hyrum were taken away, Samuel H. Smith would be his successor ".

Mary Fielding Smith Kimball ( July 21, 1801 – September 21, 1852 ) was an early member of the Latter Day Saint movement, the second wife of LDS Church leader Hyrum Smith and the mother of Joseph F. Smith.

In early June 1831, Joseph Smith was ordained to the " high priesthood ", along with twenty-two other men ( including prominent figures in the Latter Day Saint movement such as Hyrum Smith, Parley P. Pratt, and Martin Harris ).

Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum were taken into legal custody and then killed by a mob at Carthage, Illinois on June 27, 1844.

While he was there, a mob of about 200 armed men stormed Carthage Jail in the late afternoon of June 27, 1844, and both Joseph and his brother Hyrum were killed.

From that time forward, Hyrum gave patriarchal blessings until his own death on June 27, 1844.

In June 1829, Hyrum was baptized in Seneca Lake, New York.

In June 1844, Taylor accompanied Joseph Smith, Hyrum Smith, and Willard Richards and others to Carthage Jail.

On June 27, 1844, a mob stormed the upper room of the prison and killed Joseph and Hyrum.

** Hyrum Heber Kimball ( 6 July 1855-4 June 1943 )

Richards was incarcerated in Carthage Jail with Joseph Smith, Jr., Hyrum Smith and John Taylor on the 27th of June 1844 when the jail was attacked by a mob and the LDS prophet and his brother were murdered.

* Hyrum Smith ( 27 April 1834-21 September 1841 )

Hyrum himself was killed in 1844 along with Joseph, resulting in a Succession crisis that broke the Latter Day Saint movement into several smaller denominations.

There, the church thrived until Smith and his brother Hyrum were killed by a mob in 1844.

Emma was left a pregnant widow — it would be on November 17, 1844, that she gave birth to David Hyrum Smith, her and Joseph's last child together.

In 1844 Joseph Smith, and his brother Hyrum Smith were murdered by a mob while in custody in the city of Carthage, Illinois.

Hyrum refused and, in 1844, traveled with Joseph to Carthage, Illinois where both were charged with riot and treason.

At the time of Joseph's assassination in 1844, most Latter Day Saints agreed that his brother, Hyrum Smith, would have been chosen successor, had he not also been assassinated.

When Hyrum was assassinated in 1844, his youngest brother, the Apostle William Smith became Presiding Patriarch.

However, Samuel died suddenly on July 30, 1844, just a month after Joseph and Hyrum were killed.

In July 1844 while traveling, Lyman learned that Smith and his brother Hyrum had been killed by a mob at Carthage, Illinois.

After Hyrum was murdered in 1844, Mary Smith chose to follow the direction of Brigham Young and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.