In the mid-1980s we visited Carthage jail with our family and carefully looked around at--and felt the spirit of--that sacred place and relics, including the long-dried blood of Joseph on the floor in front of the window. Not long after the turn of this century my wife and I visited there again with some friends and since it was the friends' first time we were showing them the fateful cell. We approached the window from which Joseph was shot/lept/was killed and looked at the floor. The curator/missionary there said, "If you are looking for Joseph's blood, it is no longer there. President Kimball visited here a couple of years ago and upon seeing the blood still preserved on the floor in-situ, asked that it be cleaned up and varnished over, stating, 'It's time that we let some things heal.'"
Richard JukesJune 28, 2025
Superlative rendition and very sentimental portraits/photographs that bring back the very deep feelings of our tender visit there. Thank you so much for sharing!
Susan MorrisJune 28, 2025
Thank you for these eyewitness accounts. I read them and wept as though the martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum were only yesterday. And thank you for the lines from Eliza R. Snow. I think I see how her poetic phrases informed the beautiful prose that John Taylor later penned in what is now Doctrine and Covenants 135. Praise to the men!
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Carlin BartschiJune 30, 2025
In the mid-1980s we visited Carthage jail with our family and carefully looked around at--and felt the spirit of--that sacred place and relics, including the long-dried blood of Joseph on the floor in front of the window. Not long after the turn of this century my wife and I visited there again with some friends and since it was the friends' first time we were showing them the fateful cell. We approached the window from which Joseph was shot/lept/was killed and looked at the floor. The curator/missionary there said, "If you are looking for Joseph's blood, it is no longer there. President Kimball visited here a couple of years ago and upon seeing the blood still preserved on the floor in-situ, asked that it be cleaned up and varnished over, stating, 'It's time that we let some things heal.'"
Richard JukesJune 28, 2025
Superlative rendition and very sentimental portraits/photographs that bring back the very deep feelings of our tender visit there. Thank you so much for sharing!
Susan MorrisJune 28, 2025
Thank you for these eyewitness accounts. I read them and wept as though the martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum were only yesterday. And thank you for the lines from Eliza R. Snow. I think I see how her poetic phrases informed the beautiful prose that John Taylor later penned in what is now Doctrine and Covenants 135. Praise to the men!
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