Samuel F. Whitney reports that Elizabeth Ann Whitney had a seer stone.

Date
Jan 1888
Type
Periodical
Source
Samuel F. Whitney
Critic
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Late
Reference

Samuel F. Whitney statement in Arthur Deming, Naked Truths About Mormonism 1 no. 1 (January 1888): 3

Scribe/Publisher
Deming & Co.
People
Samuel F. Whitney, Elizabeth Ann Whitney, Newel K. Whitney, Joseph Smith, Jr.
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

Jo's peep stone was called the Urim and Thummim. Mormon elders and women often searched the bed of the river for stones with holes caused by the sand washing out, to peep into. N. K. Whitney's wife had one. I took it to search for a cot I had lost from my injured finger. She said it was wicked to trifle with sacred things. There was much talk about Mormons digging for hidden treasures soon after their arrival in Kirtland.

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