Benjamin Saunders reports to William H. Kelley that that Joseph had little education.
Benjamin Saunders, interviewed by William H. Kelley, circa September 1884,30, “Miscellany,” RLDS Church Library-Archives, Independence, Missouri in Dan Vogel, comp. Early Mormon Documents, 5 vols. (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1998), 2:140
Joseph did had but little education. They were big stout men but never was quarrelsom. would put up with any thing and every thing rather than have a quarrel.