Who buried the golden plates?

Four years later Smith purportedly received plates of gold from Moroni, who, as the last of the ancient prophets, had buried them in a hill called Cumorah (near Palmyra, New York) some 14 centuries earlier.

When were the golden plates buried?

September 22, 1823
Introduction. The golden plates containing the Book of Mormon were buried in the Hill Cumorah, about three miles southeast of the Smith family farm. In the early hours of September 22, 1823, the angel Moroni showed Joseph Smith in vision exactly where the ancient record was hidden.

Did Sidney Rigdon return to the church?

Baptist ministry and tanner On May 31, 1817, Rigdon was baptized by Rev. He married Bentley’s wife’s sister, Phoebe Brooks in June 1820, and remained in Ohio until February 1822, when he returned to Pittsburgh to accept the pastorate of the First Baptist Church there under the recommendation of Alexander Campbell.

What happened Jesse Gause?

By 1836, when he would have been 51 years old, he had died at Montgomery, Chester County, Pennsylvania. In that year his brother assumed the guardianship of Martha’s children. However, his sister stated in 1873 that Gause “died away from his family”, suggesting that he died estranged from his children.

Did Oliver Cowdery ever come back to the church?

In 1838, as Assistant President of the Church, Cowdery resigned and was excommunicated on charges of denying the faith. Cowdery became a Methodist, and then in 1848, he returned to the Latter Day Saint movement.

How did Joseph Smith translate the golden tablets?

Smith dictated the text of the plates while a scribe wrote down the words which would later become the Book of Mormon. Eyewitnesses to the process said Smith translated the plates, not by looking directly at them, but by looking through a transparent seer stone in the bottom of his hat.

Did Emma Smith see the gold plates LDS?

Although Emma Smith never saw the gold plates in the same way the other witnesses did and was also counseled by the Lord not to murmur because of the things which she had not seen (see D&C 25:4), she did have close contact with the plates and the work of her husband.