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    Wooded Groves to Marble Temples, The Five Prophets from Nauvoo. Book One, Brigham Young
    Wooded Groves to Marble Temples, The Five Prophets from Nauvoo. Book One, Brigham Young
    Wooded Groves to Marble Temples, The Five Prophets from Nauvoo. Book One, Brigham Young
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    Wooded Groves to Marble Temples, The Five Prophets from Nauvoo. Book One, Brigham Young

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    When Joseph Smith, Jr. and his brother Hyrum were killed at the Carthage, Hancock County, Illinois Jail on June 27, 1844, a struggle for leadership of the Latter Day Saints (The Mormons) Church developed. At that time in Nauvoo there were living five men who would eventually lead the church. It was Brigham Young who stepped into the void and followed Joseph Smith, Jr. as President of the Church. This is his story, Book One, Brigham Young.

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    PublisherRay Speckman
    Release dateOct 24, 2017
    ISBN9781370817382
    Wooded Groves to Marble Temples, The Five Prophets from Nauvoo. Book One, Brigham Young
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    Ray Speckman

    Ray Speckman has spent the largest part of his entire life traveling the roads less traveled, smelling each rose (and yes an occasional dandelion) he passes.He admits to being nosey and his brain is like a sponge always wanting more information.He is a widower. He has two children.Ray lived at Missouri's Lake of the Ozarks for many years where he was involved in the newspaper and radio business, taught at Columbia College at the lake, owned a restaurant and was involved in many philantrophic and community activities.Ray also produced and hosted a decade long television program, Ozark Daze on the Columbia, Missouri NBC affilliate, KOMU-TV. Ray also produced historically based documentaries for regional and national distribution.Today he resides near the Lake with a widow, Joyce Mitchell who he smiles and refers to as "my sugar momma." He also says they live "comfortably in sin as mature grandparents."Together they have a boutique shop that also sells antiques and wines in Versailles, Missouri.Ray and Joyce travel extensively and together enjoy the backroads and new people, places and opportunities together.Ray is compiling, updating and discovering new adventures for his continuing work of Ebooks that has published now on Amazon/Kindle and Smashwords.He also has published Ebooks "Stranger in the Mirror" detailing the strength of his wife Marti as she struggled with cancer.

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      Wooded Groves to Marble Temples, The Five Prophets from Nauvoo. Book One, Brigham Young - Ray Speckman

      Wooded Groves To Marble Temples

      The Five Mormon Prophets from Nauvoo

      Book One

      BRIGHAM YOUNG

      By Ray Speckman

      Copyright © 2017 Ray Speckman

      All rights reserved.

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      Brigham Young

      1801-1877

      Second President of Church of Latter Day Saints

      1847-1877

      Contents

      Author’s Preface

      Author’s Introduction

      Chapter One: Succession, Confusion and Disorder

      Chapter Two: An American Moses Emerges

      Chapter Three: An American Hegira

      Chapter Four: Growth, Trials and Tribulations

      Chapter Five: Mayhem, Massacre and Reformation

      Chapter Six: A New West

      Chapter Seven: A Legacy Left

      Author’s Preface

      It was in a wooded grove, a drumlin hill near Manchester, New York called Cumorah, that Joseph Smith claimed to have received his instructions from God and the Golden Plates from the angel Moroni that became the Book of Mormon.

      It was in groves of woods in New York and Pennsylvania that first assemblages of people gathered to hear the words of Joseph Smith. Another of those groves was in Nauvoo, Illinois, located just west of then unfinished temple, about halfway between the temple and the Mississippi River.

      One of the most fabled stories of the grove in Nauvoo is the story of Louisa Beaman, the third plural wife of Joseph Smith, being disguised as a man and escorted, under cover of night, and there sealed with the prophet.

      Today, an area east of the newer ostentatious marble temple (the first Nauvoo temple was destroyed) is designated to re-establish that grove. Protected by a woven-wire fence, waist high immature trees grow, establishing new roots in homage to the beginnings of the church.

      Five men who ascended to the leadership of the Mormon Church were in Nauvoo at the time of the killing of Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum at the Carthage Jail on June 27, 1844.

      After some serious struggling (political-like), Brigham Young became the leader to succeed Smith and following a series of skirmishes with non-Mormons vigilantes of Illinois, were forced to leave Nauvoo. Young and the four other men who would be presidents of the church and the Mormons (except for a few who remained in Illinois) departed west in the winter of 1846 for the Salt Lake (now Utah) basin.

      Departing with Young (Church President 1847-1877) were four other men who would eventually become leaders of the church, John Taylor (1877-1887), Wilford Woodruff (1887-1898), Lorenzo Snow (1898-1901) and Joseph F. Smith (1901-1918).

      These five men were believers in polygamy. Collectively they married 84 times and sired 214 children.

      Their presidencies of the Church were filled with strife, drama, difficulties with the Federal Government, plague, famine, church economic plight and good fortunes.

      In their time some who hid out from authorities, others were criminally charged, and even one who appealed a criminal conviction to the United States Supreme Court.

      One of their number was bi-sexual and all assisted, in his own way, the rise to dominance of the Mormon religion.

      And in 1893 the famous, statuesque and imposing structure, the Salt Lake Temple, was dedicated after 40 years of construction.

      This ornate, opulent temple became the template for more temples, a successful ostentatious marketing tool that began with an infantile fantasy of Joseph Smith, Jr.

      From wooded groves to magnificent marble temples, these five men of Nauvoo stewarded the rise of the church over sixty years.

      Author’s Introduction

      This is a book of fiction.

      It is historically correct.

      How can it be historically correct and also fiction?

      Years of research on the Mormon community leads to some very interesting and subjective conclusions.

      The research has involved reading hundreds of printed and on line books. It has included reading thousands of on line posts by the church, Mormons and anti-Mormons.

      My rewarding journeys included visitations to Mormon and ‘splinter’ sites after the death of Joseph Smith, Jr. Those included locations in New York, Pennsylvania, Kirtland, Ohio, Independence and Far West, Missouri, Quincy and Nauvoo, Illinois, the basin of the great Salt Lake in what is now Utah, and the trails

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