After arriving in Richmond, Ray County, Mo., in1838 with only a team and a wagon, David Whitmer eventually built a two-story home on this site.
Kenneth Mays
David Whitmer, one of the Three Witnesses of the Book of Mormon, became disaffected from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints while living in Missouri in 1838. He subsequently moved to Richmond, Ray County, Mo., and spent a half century there until his passing in 1888.
After arriving in 1838 with only a team and a wagon, David eventually built a two-story home on this site. In 1878, it was destroyed by a tornado and then rebuilt.
At the time the tornado hit, the second or printer's copy of the Book of Mormon was being stored in a trunk in the home. The manuscript, mostly written in the hand of Oliver Cowdery, survived with little damage. The manuscript today is in the possession of and cared for by the Community of Christ.
Only about three lines of the entire Book of Mormon text is missing from that copy.
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Kenny Mays is a teacher at the Salt Lake University Institute adjacent to the University of Utah and a board member of the Mormon Historic Sites Foundation. For decades he has been studying and photographing LDS Church more ..
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Smart man. People who find out they've been duped tend to become disaffected.
Corvette,
If your comment applies to David Whitmer, I disagree with part of your assessment. I believe he was a smart man and was regarded as a good man. He had significant disagreements with Joseph Smith, but I don't think he ever More..