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

* 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Hyrum Smith ( February 9, 1800 – June 27, 1844 ) was an American religious leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the original church of the Latter Day Saint movement.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Over the next few months, David traveled with other missionaries like John Murdock, William Smith, Zebedee Coltrin, John F. Boynton, Hyrum Smith, or Reynolds Cahoon.

Convinced of its authenticity, he traveled to Palmyra, New York, and spoke to Hyrum Smith at the Smith home.

During 1831, he also traveled with Hyrum Smith, and preached in Tennessee.

The " Dream Mine " of John Hyrum Koyle, as well as the pond, became synonymous with Salem.

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 ).

His brother, Hyrum, who was Assistant President of the Church, ( and as such would have been Smith's natural successor ) had died with him.

Upon arrival at Shakespeare, Ender quickly and easily crushes Morgan's attempted bloodless coup, with a little help from Minister of Colonization Hyrum Graff back on earth.

The renovated and enlarged Hyrum Manwaring Student Center and a new auditorium building with seating for 15, 000 were recently dedicated on the Campus.

After arriving in Utah Territory in 1848, Joseph's mother Mary Fielding Smith worked with her sister and brother to raise the two widows ' families, as well as continuing to care for Hyrum and Jerusha's younger children.

Following Bean's ' death ' ( In actuality, he faked his death with the help of Hyrum Graff and went into self-imposed exile in space to prolong his genetically shortened lifespan ), Petra eventually marries Peter Wiggin, the Hegemon and brother of Ender Wiggin even though she loves Bean.

:" Hyrum is credited in Church history with being an astute organizer who gave ecclesiastical leadership to the emerging Church.

" She spent the night pleading with the Lord to spare her life so she could bring up her children ( Alvin and Hyrum ) and " be a comfort " to her husband.

She went from sect to sect ; and sometime after 1824, she and three of her children, Hyrum, Samuel, and Sophronia, joined Western Presbyterian Church, the only church with a meetinghouse in Palmyra.

This is certain in that she never made it to Utah, instead she stayed with her daughter-in-law, Emma, and other family members ( notably Joseph Smith III, David Hyrum Smith, Alexander Hale Smith, and Frederick G. W.

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.

Hyde was called on a succession of missions for the church, serving with Hyrum Smith, Samuel H. Smith, and John Gould.

Lyman left on April 21 with Hyrum Smith to recruit from the northwest.

Hyrum and Lyman recruited about twenty individuals, including Hosea Stout, who was not a Church member but was impressed with their preaching.

Brigham Young compared Pratt's death with those of Joseph and Hyrum Smith, and many Mormons blamed the death on the state of Arkansas, or its people.

Thereafter, the majority of the Presiding Patriarchs of the LDS Church were descendants of Hyrum, in keeping with the tradition of lineal succession.