Strang's church still maintains a congregation in Voree, and the local historical society has erected a monument to the Mormon settlement there.

In Strang's church, women were — and still are — permitted to hold the offices of Priest and Teacher ( but not any other offices ) from as early as 1856.

Bennett founded a secretive Strangite fraternal society known as the Order of Illuminati, but his presence disrupted Strang's church and ultimately led to his excommunication.

Since many of his early disciples had looked to him as a monogamous counterweight to Brigham Young's polygamous version of Mormonism, Strang's decision to embrace plural marriage proved costly to him and his church.

Strang's church also fielded a mission to England, one of the primary sources of converts to Mormonism.

Since Strang refused to appoint a successor, and insisted that the next Strangite prophet must be ordained by angels just as he and Joseph Smith had been, Strang's church was left leaderless and vulnerable.

( 2005 ) Strang's death and the loss of his Beaver Island settlement were twin catastrophes for his church.

This second group claims that it is the sole true remnant of James Strang's church.

Animal sacrifice was instituted in the Strangite church under Strang's leadership, for forgiveness of sins and as a part of Strangite celebration rituals.

After Joseph Smith was assassinated, Cowdery's brother Lyman recognized James J. Strang as Smith's successor to the church presidency, and in 1847, Oliver moved to Elkhorn, Wisconsin near Strang's headquarters in Voree and entered law practice with his brother.

James J. Strang's church in Voree suffered a significant schism in 1849, led by former follower Aaron Smith.

While his church suffered persecution there, it continued to grow, steadily gaining converts from other Latter Day Saint sects until Strang's assassination in 1856.

Most of his initial adherents, including all of those listed above ( with the exception of George Miller, who remained loyal to Strang until death ), would leave Strang's church before his demise.

Eternal marriage formed a part of Strang's teaching, though he did not require it to be performed in a temple ( as in the LDS church ).

Thus, such marriages are still contracted in Strang's church in the absence of any Strangite temple or " endowment " ceremony.

Rather, Strang's book comprises a rather elaborate constitution for a Mormon kingdom, in which the Prophet-leader of the Latter Day Saint church equally rules as king over God's kingdom on earth.

Although some of these witnesses later left Strang's church, none of them is known to have ever denied their testimony as given in the Book of the Law.

No official determination has apparently been made by the Strangite church as to whether these words should be considered part of Strang's translation or not.

The " Letter of Appointment " is still accepted and defended by members of Strang's church.

It was sold under the trading name Strang's Coffee citing the patented " Dry Hot-Air " process.

Strang's claim was bolstered by his discovery of the Voree Plates, purporting to contain the last testament of an ancient Native American, one " Rajah Manchou of Vorito ".

Strang's defense of polygamy was rather novel.

* Though construction on a temple was started at this site, it was never completed, due to the poverty and divisions among Strang's followers.

Although his long-term doctrinal influence on the Latter Day Saint movement was minimal, several early members of Strang's organization helped to establish the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which became ( and remains ) the second-largest Mormon sect.

As a youth, Strang kept a rather profound personal diary, written partly in a secret code that was not deciphered until over one hundred years after it was authored ( by Strang's own grandson Mark Strang, a banker in Long Beach, California ).

Shortly after Strang's departure, Joseph Smith was murdered by an anti-Mormon mob in Carthage, Illinois.

One former Strangite claimed that Strang's law partner conspired with Strang to fabricate his Letter of Appointment and the Voree Plates, though no proof of this was ever produced.

However, not all of these followed him to Beaver Island in Lake Michigan, where Strang's headquarters was moved in 1848.

Strang's first wife was Mary Perce, whom he married on November 20, 1836, when she was eighteen and he was twenty-three.

His second wife, married on July 13, 1849, was nineteen-year old Elvira Eliza Field ( who disguised herself at first as " Charlie J. Douglas ," Strang's purported nephew, before revealing her true identity in 1850 ).

Strang's third wife was thirty-one year old Betsy McNutt, whom he married on January 19, 1852 ; his fourth was nineteen-year-old Sarah Adelia Wright, married on July 15, 1855.

Strang's last wife was eighteen-year-old Phoebe Wright, cousin to Sarah, whom he wed on October 27, 1855, less than one year before his murder.

The Book of the Law of the Lord was published in two separate editions during James Strang's lifetime.

In fact, the 1856 edition was not bound at all until after Strang's death, as he was assassinated before this was completed.

Although Strang's group relocated to Beaver Island, Michigan in 1850, his parents remained in Voree.

The non-Mormon Christopher Sholes – inventor of the typewriter and editor of a local newspaper – perused Strang's " Voree Plates ", a minuscule brass chronicle Strang said he had been led to by a vision in 1845.

These concerned, among other things, Baptism for the Dead, the building of a temple in Voree, the standing of Sidney Rigdon, and an invitation for Joseph Smith III, eldest son of Joseph Smith, Jr., to take a position as Counselor in Strang's First Presidency.

Strang's published translation of the Voree Plates reads as follows:

The LDS Church and the Community of Christ, the two largest factions of the Latter Day Saint movement, each reject James Strang's claims to prophetic leadership and his " Voree Record.

Comparison of the script used in the coded portions of Strang's diary and the script used on the Voree Plates shows remarkable similarities between the two.

According to a Strangite website, one Derek J. Masson, a non-Mormon scholar, reportedly argued in an unpublished 1977 paper: A Comparison of the Voree Record with Some Eastern Scripts that Strang's translation was sound.

Furthermore, this same site alleges that a second non-Mormon scholar, Robert Madison, concluded in his 1990 A Preliminary Linguistic Analysis of James J. Strang's Voree Plates that the text on the plates appears to represent a genuine, albeit unknown, language, and that Strang's translation appeared to be " a superb ( if poetic ) rendition of that text into English.