EBM sees mummies and papyri, describes LMS explaining who the mummies are, says JS knows their identity by revelation.

Date
1880 - 1909
Type
Manuscript
Source
Eudocia Baldwin Marsh
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reprint
Late
Reference

Eudocia Baldwin Marsh, Reminiscence, 1880–1909, 18–19, in Eudocia Baldwin Marsh, "Mormons in Hancock County: A Reminiscence," eds. Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis, Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 64, no. 1 (Spring, 1971): 38

Scribe/Publisher
Eudocia Baldwin Marsh
People
Eudocia Baldwin Marsh, Joseph Smith, Jr., Lucy Mack Smith
Audience
N/A
Transcription

After dinner we were told that in an adjoining room some Egyptian Mummies were exhibited for a small sum—Some of the party expressing a wish to see them, we were ushered into the room where we found them presided over by the mother of the Prophet, a trim looking old lady in black silk gown and white cap and kerchief.— — With a long wand she pointed out to us the old King Pharioh of the Exodus himself, with wife and daughter and gave us a detailed account of thier lives and doings three thousand years before— — Upon my asking her how she obtained all this information—she replied in a severely virtuose tone and a manner calculated to repress all doubt and further question—"My Son Joseph Smith has recently received a revelation from the Lord in regard to these people and times—and he has told all these things to me"— — We left the house without faith in these revelations—neither did we believe in the old ladies faith in them which seemed hard on the mother of the "Prophet"— —

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