![]() ![]() He lingered this way, in pain and distress, until the end of July, when he succumbed to death-the last of the Smith brothers to be sacrificed. Now, hours later, he confided to his mother that he had been suffering a terrible pain in his side ever since the chase indeed, he had become so weak that he could not sit up without help. ![]() He escaped them in the end and was able to ride into Nauvoo in time to see his brothers’ bodies brought back to the Mansion House. When that failed, they chased after him on horseback for more than two hours. But some of the very mobsters who had been part of the deed, realizing who he was, attempted to shoot him on the spot. Samuel Smith, riding alone into Carthage on the day of the martyrdom, did not realize that his two older brothers lay dead. But Lucy had yet another personal anguish on her mind. ![]()
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