Difference between revisions of "Joseph Smith's family as trustworthy and hard-working"

Contemporary witnesses regarded Joseph Smith's family as trustworthy and hard-working

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• Question: Are there no contemporary pro-Mormon statements from reliable and informed sources who knew the Smith family and Joseph intimately?
• Question: Was Joseph Smith's family lazy, shiftless and seeking to make a living without performing any labor?
• Question: Was "money digging" Joseph Smith, Jr's primary source of income during his early years?

Question: Are there no contemporary pro-Mormon statements from reliable and informed sources who knew the Smith family and Joseph intimately?

What contemporary witnesses are there to the work ethic of the Smiths?

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• What contemporary witnesses are there to the work ethic of the Smiths?
• Orlando Saunders
• John Stafford
• Joseph Knight
• Josiah Stowell
• 1819 trial

See also: Joseph Smith: personality and temperament, Joseph Smith: character, Lazy Smiths?, and No positive witnesses of Smiths?

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