Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner's Reminiscence of Joseph Smith Discerning Those at Carthage Jail were Being Fed Human Flesh

  

One day while in this jail, a mean of meat was brought to them. Joseph the Prophet put a piece to his mouth and quickly laid it down saying, 'Don't eat a it of it. It is not fit to eat.' Whereupon the men who had served it laughed and said, 'We feed the Mormons on their own beef,' meaning human flesh. General Doniph[a]n was disposed to favor the brethren as much as he could. Brother Henry said that only God knew what their suffers were while confined there. (Diary of Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner, 1936, p. 6)