A beautiful statue stands on the west side of the Nauvoo Temple. It depicts Joseph and Hyrum Smith as they rode up Mulholland Street toward Carthage to what would be their martyrdom. It was early on a Monday morning, June 24, 1844. Eunice Billings Snow, who was fourteen years old at the time, later described that day:
On the last day which he [Joseph Smith] spent in Nauvoo, he passed our house with his brother Hyrum, both riding. My mother and I were standing in the door yard and as he passed he bowed with uplifted hat to my mother. Hyrum seemed like one in a dream. sad and despondent, taking no notice of anyone. They were on their way to the Carthage Jail, and it was the last time I saw the prophet alive.
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