[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] Elder B. Young expressed his feelings to me upon a variety of subjects. Among others wished me to keep an account of things as he should look to me for his Journal some day. ...
[Lyman Wight] informed me that Joseph told him while they were in Joal [Jail] that he should not live to see forty years but told him not to reveal it untill he was dead.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
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ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman_Wight (died ~ age 62).
ReplyDeleteThe false prophecy Joseph Smith gave about Lyman Wight in 1839 came crashing down on JS's own head 5 years later when JS was age 38.5.