Kirtland, Ohio

We weren't allowed to take pictures on the tour of the inside, of the Kirtland temple, so this one is just a picture of a picture of the inside. But we did get to go inside, it was beautiful.

The Kirtland temple

This is a house that belonged to Benjamin Franklin Johnson and his family, who are our ancestors. He bought it from Joseph and Emma Smith. It was the first real home Joseph and Emma owned. Above is the house in the mid-1800s, and below in 2010.

Mom, looking up our ancestors who lived in Kirtland. We have eleven, that we found.

This building used to be an inn in the 1830's, but is now a museum for oldtown Kirtland.

If they took the process a step further, they could make "pearl-ash" which could be used to make other things, such as china.

We learned about the process that the workers used to transform the ashes, sold to them by the townspeople, into useful products like paper, soap and glass.

The ashery

The town sawmill

A room in the Whitney's house, where many priesthood meetings were held in the early days of the church.

Above the store, where Joseph and Emma lodged for a year and a half. The table in the picture above is original, and belonged to Joseph for a time.

Inside the store

We visited the old Kirtland town where the early saints moved after their persecution in New York. The store behind us in the picture above belonged to Newell K. Whitney, who was called to be the bishop of the church in Kirtland, and also housed Joseph and Emma for about a year and a half in the second story rooms above his store.