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Camera location41° 55′ 52.05″ N, 112° 02′ 24.72″ W  Heading=0° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 80003890.

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English: Utah Historic Site (UHS) marker at the Martin Harris Monument at his grave site. Located at the town cemetery at Clarkston, Utah, USA, the location is adjacent to the place where an annual pageant entitled, "Martin Harris, the Man Who Knew", is held each August. Harris was an Latter Day Saint or Mormon leader in the early history of the church.

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National Register

Utah
Historic Site

MARTIN HARRIS GRAVESITE

This gravesite was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on November 28,
1980, as the only remaining site in Utah associated with Martin Harris—one of the three
witnesses to the "Book of Mormon, Another Testament of Jesus Christ."

A committed supporter of Joseph Smith, Jr., the Mormon Prophet, Martin Haris mor-
tgaged his farm to secure $3,00 for the printing of the first edition of the Book of Mor-
mon. He followed Joseph Smith and the Saints to Kirtland, Ohio, but disaffected and re-
mained there when Joseph and other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-
day Saints moved on to Missouri, and later to Illinois.

During the intervening years he never denied his witness of the Book of Mormon, and
in fact, in his later years bore his testimony to all who would listen. In 1870, at the age
of 87, he traveled to Utah, alone and in poor health, and was rebaptized. He lived with
his oldest son. Martin Harris, Jr., in Clarkston until his death on July 10, 1875. The pre-
sent monument, the third to mark the Martin Harris gravesite, was placed July 10, 1925.

Division of State History N-376
Date Taken on 18 August 2006
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Author Leon7
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