A monumental day in Missouri
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RICHMOND, MO.
It was quite literally a monumental day for the Church in western Missouri Nov. 19.
At a pioneer cemetery in Richmond, Church officers and scholars led community members in commemorating the placement 100 years ago of a monument to the Three Witnesses to the Book of Mormon.
The same day, a new monument to the Eight Witnesses to the Book of Mormon was dedicated in Liberty, Mo., some 30 miles west of Richmond.
Earlier that day in Richmond, a marker was unveiled identifying the location of the old log cabin jail where Joseph Smith, imprisoned and awaiting trial on false charges, rebuked guards who were boasting of atrocities committed against the Latter-day Saints in Missouri.
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