We left South Bend and headed for Nauvoo. We decided to go a little backwards and see Carthage Jail first. I don't think there is really a reason why we did, we just did. We watched a movie on a compilation of what people who knew him thought of Joseph Smith and the kind of man he was. We then took a tour of the jail. The walls of the jail are 3 feet thick and actually serves as the go-to tornado shelter for those in the area. The jail had three rooms: A "waiting" room for those who are going to trial within a few hours or maybe a day; the "dungeon" that is your typical jail cell - no real windows, just slits in the rock, iron bars and straw on the ground; and the jailer's bedroom. The bedroom is where Joseph, Hyrum, John Taylor, and Willard Richards were staying because the jailer felt that they were innocent and wrongly accused, so he did what he could to make them feel comfortable.
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The bullet hole on the edge of the door
was used to break the lock. The bullet hole
in the door was the hole that hit and
killed Hyrum almost instantly. |
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The bedroom where the Prophet, Hyrum, John Taylor, and Willard Richards.
And the window that Joseph fell out of after being shot multiple times in the
front and the back.
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Memorial to Joseph and Hyrum with the jail
in the background. |
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