The Death of Joseph Smith Revisited

The Death of Joseph Smith from a Formby, Tasmania The North West Post News Article c. 1844 

 

From the National Library of Australia

 

The death of the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints reported as a pneumonia rather than gunshot wounds and a nasty fall.

 

This rare article reads as follows:

 

THE MORMON LEADER.

DEATH OF JOSEPH SMITH.

SALT LAKE CITY. Nov. 8.

Joseph Smith, who for thirty years

was the head of the Mormons, has died

after a three days' illness. The cause

of death was; pneumonia. He was once

the principal partner with Harris, and was one of the ten richest men in America.