500 Little Known Facts

The polished granite monument to Joseph Smith, dedicated at the homestead site in Sharon, Vermont, is well known to most Latter-day Saints. Less known is a similar shaft of Vermont granite erected to honor his brother Hyrum. Standing on the burial lot of Joseph F. Smith, Hyrum’s son, in the Salt Lake City Cemetery, it is half the height of the monument in Sharon. It was unveiled precisely at the hour and minute of the matyrdoms, 5:20 p.m., June 27, 1918, seventy-four years after the Carthage assassinations. Representing two brothers who were separated neither in death or burial, the two monuments representing that union are separated by nearly two thousand miles.

CHC, 6:429.