Benjamin Saunders says Joseph never got drunk.
- Type
- Manuscript
- Source
- Benjamin Saunders Non-LDS
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- Scribed VerbatimReprintLate
- Reference
Benjamin Saunders Interview, in William H. Kelley, "Miscellany"; rep. Dan Vogel, Early Mormon Documents (Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, ), 2:137
- Scribe/Publisher
- William Kelley
- Audience
- N/A
- Transcription
Their morals were good. The old man sometimes would drink until he felt quite happy at our log rollings and raisings: but he was not quarrelsome. He was not a bad man. would attend regularly to his business. It was rulable for people to drink at those timesf.] The Smiths were no worse than others, and not as bad as some, but still they would take a drink. . . . Did you ever See young Joe drunk? No. Did you ever See any of the boys drunk. No.
- BHR Staff Commentary
William H. Kelley was an apostle in the RLDS Church and upon reading newspaper articles that defamed Joseph Smith's character he began to conduct interviews with people in the Palmyra area that knew Joseph and his family.
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