<each> put into a rough square <rough> pine box. <at 8 a m> The room was then thrown open for their friends <Saints> to view the bodies <of their Martyred Prophet & > and it is estimated that <over> 10,000 persons at least visited the remains ofJoseph & that day as there was a perfect living stream of people entering in at the west door of the and out at the north door from 8 a m to 5 p m at which hour <a request was made that> the was should be cleared so that the families could take <their> farewell of <look at> the remains. The coffins were then taken out of the boxes and taken into the little bedroom in the North east corner of the , and then concealed & the door locked. Bags of sand were then placed in each end of the boxes which were then nailed up, and a mock funeral took place, the boxes being put into a hearse and driven to the grave yard by , and then deposited in a grave <with the usual ceremonies.> This was done to prevent the enemies of the Martyred Prophet & getting possessi[o]n of the bodies As it was expected <they had threatened> they would attempt to do so. As the hearse passed the meeting ground <accompanied by a few men> was preaching the funeral sermon
At about midnight the coffins with <containing> the bodies <too small for Joseph, but [2 words illegible] from Hyrum> were taken from the by , , , , , and Gilbert Goldsmith, <><, , and ,> preceded by as guard, <with his musket— they went thru the garden, round by the pump> And were conveyed to the , <which was then built to the first joists of the basement> and buried in the basement story After the bodies were interred < said he wished it to rain so that it could not be suspected that the earth had been disturbed. He had no sooner said the words than> <x> <x and the ground smoothed off as it was before, and rubbish chips of wood & stone and other rubbish thrown over so as to make it appear like the rest of the ground around the graves> a <most terrific> shower of rain <accompanied with thunder & lightning> occurred and obliterated all traces of the <of the fact that the earth had been> newly dug earth <. 5>