Edgar Allan Poe and Joseph Smith were actually cousins. Both are related to Anthony Colby and Susannah Haddon, their son, Samuel Colby is related to Edgar Allan Poe and their daughter Sarah Colby is related to Joseph Smith. Anthony Colby 1605-1660 and Susannah Haddon 1610-1689 are early colonial New England immigrants that sailed to America in Gov Winthrop’s Fleet of 1630 on the ship “Arbella”, which was the flag ship of eleven ships.

Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston Massachusetts, his father abandoned the family and his mother died shortly after his birth in 1811. Edgar was taken in by John and Frances Allan from Richmond, Virginia, but was never officially adopted.

Poe visited the United Kingdom in 1815 and attended grammar school in Ayrshire, Scotland and then boarding school in Chelsea and then he entered the Reverend John Bransby’s Manor House School a few miles north of London. He learned to read and write the following languages: French, English, German, Russian, Spanish, Italian and was considered a master of the ancient languages of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and most of all he loved the Egyptian hieroglyphs

His style of writing changed dramatically though out his life. At first it was more religious from his schooling at the Reverend Johns Bransby’s Manor House School.

Did Edgar Allan Poe ever meet with the English poet Lord Byron while he was in England? Lord Bryon was an influence on Edgar A Poe and it was reflected in his writing. Lord Bryon once said “The best prophet of the future is the past”

Lord Byron wrote the poem “Darkness” in 1816 which is based on an apocalyptic end to the world., this is most likely the poem that influenced Edgar the most. Edgar Allan Poe used this style of writing in his poem “Al Aaraaf”, which he wrote when he was just 14 but did not publish it until May of 1829. Why did he wait so long to publish this? The long poetic works in the Book of Mormon is also very similar to Lord Byron’s work and the earlier works of Edgar Allan Poe.

Poe even copied some of Lord Byron’s work. Poe wrote “I reach’d my home – my home no more” three years after Bryon wrote “He entered in the house-his home no more” which was written right before Lord Bryon’s death and left unfinished. So maybe Poe was in grieving over Byron’s death and wrote that to remember him by. Did Lord Byron have a part in writing the Book of Mormon?

Why was Lord Bryon’s Memoirs destroyed shortly after his death?  What secrets did it have?  John Murray was Lord Byron’s friend, publisher, and executor of his will.  Murray burned the 2 volume memoirs in his fireplace.  The only one to oppose this was Thomas Moore in 1824.  It was said to be the “greatest literary crime in history” Washington Irving was good friends with John Murray. Did he know what was in the Bryon’s Memoirs? Washington Irving was lifelong friends with Walter Scott and Edgar Allan Poe. On May 29, 1829, Poe wrote to his foster father John Allan and told him he “no longer was a follower of Byron. It is plain enough that he now had two masters, an incongruous pair, John Milton and Thomas Moore. “

Edgar Allan Poe once said, “All religion, my friend, is simply out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”

The Jefferson Bible, that Thomas Jefferson created in 1819 could have influenced Edgar Allan Poe and his brother Henry to write a bible. At this time Edgar was attending the Reverend John Bransby’s Manor House School and most of his writings were based on religious ideas. Thomas Jefferson tried to fix the Bible by re-writing it without Jesus performing miracles and without the resurrection and the public opinion of the Thomas Jefferson’s Bible was not a very good one. Poe did not care for the Pilgrim’s Progress; however, it was very popular at the time. The Pilgrim Progress was written by John Bunyan in 1678 and did influence Edgar Allan Poe’s writing as well as influenced Joseph Smith in the Book of Mormon.

Edgar Allan Poe had a hard time at the University of Virginia fitting in.  The other students came from very wealthy families and most of them came from the south. Thomas Jefferson didn’t want the students to bring with them their personal slaves to the university.  So, with the price of the tuition, he furnished for each student, one slave to clean their room, clothes and to prepare their food.  Edgar’s foster family had a lot of money however Edgar did not have access to any of this money. The students past their spare time gambling and drinking, Edgar Allan Poe ran up a debt of over $2,000.00.  

Edgar Allan Poe attended the University of Virginia and was always ranked in the top of his classes., he exceled in both French and Latin. He was very fond of Thomas Jefferson, and both had a lot in common as they both spoke French fluently. Thomas Jefferson would have student guests to visit him every other Sunday for lunch or dinner on varies occasions at Monticello. Did Thomas Jefferson show him how the Jefferson disk worked? Did this get Edgar Allan Poe interested in ciphering messages?

The Jefferson disk, also called the Bazeries cylinder or wheel cypher as named by Thomas Jefferson, is a cipher system using a set of wheels or disks, each with the 26 letters of the alphabet arranged around their edge. The order of the letters is different for each disk and is usually ordered randomly. Each disk is marked with a unique number and a hole in the center of the disks allows them to be stacked on an axle. The disks are removable and can be mounted on the axle in any order desired. The order of the disks is the cipher key, and both sender and receiver must arrange the disks in the same predefined order. Jefferson's device had 36 disks

Edgar Allan Poe was there that summer at Monticello to help prepare for the big 50th anniversary celebration of the Declaration of Independence. On that day July 4th, 1826, Thomas Jefferson passed away along with John Adams. A lot of people at this time thought there was a conspiracy, even Daniel Webster, known for his active part in the anti-masonic movement said in the eulogy at Thomas Jefferson’s and John Adams funeral. “But the concurrence of their death on the anniversary of Independence has naturally awakened stronger emotions. It cannot but seem striking and extraordinary, that these two should live to see the fiftieth year from the date of that act.”

Later just five years later, on July 4th, 1831, James Monroe the fifth president was the third founding father and president to die on July 4th in a row. At that time three of the four presidents all died on July 4th.

Then again five years later James Madison he died on June 28, 1836, just 6 days early. He had told everyone he did not want to die on July 4th as well.

Edgar Allan Poe at the University of Virginia stayed in the dorm, Room # 13 in the West Range. In his dorm room window glass pane, he etched the following stanza:

O Thou timid one, let not thy

Form rest in slumber within these

Unhallowed walls,

For herein lies

The ghost of an awful crime.

This windowpane is now on display at the University’s Rotunda. Is this a confession and what was the awful crime?

Edgar left the university and joined the army. He also did not fit in with the soldiers in the Army or at West Point.  He told them stories of going to school in Europe and also later going back to Russia where he was arrested in St Petersburg and later rescued from prison by an American priest.  The soldiers believed it was just one of his wild tells that was not true and was told just to get attention.  But later this will appear as fact in the Russian Encyclopaedia.  So, who was the American priest that helped him out of the prison? 

On January 28, 1831, he was court martialed on two counts, Gross Neglect of Duty and Disobedience of Orders.  This is when he arrived to roll call naked. These acts were deliberate acts to ensure his dismissal, which officially took place on March 6.   

Edgar A. Poe went to West Point and was really good at cryptographic and then he became an editor of the newspaper. He would put letters and articles in the paper for people to try to cipher.  At this time this was the easiest and cheapest way to write to a bunch of people and yet it was still a secret private message.  People would also send him messages to cipher as well.  A lot of Poe’s short stories had hidden messaged coded in them. Freemasonry did influence his work and plots; however, Edgar A Poe thought the freemasonry’s Pigpen cipher was very basic and elementary. Edgar A Poe's cipher method was later used during the civil war and in the correspondence letters that involved the assignation of Lincoln.

Edgar Allan Poe wrote cryptographic articles to challenge his readers.  He wanted them to send in their codes and he would break them and tell his readers how it was done.  WB Tyler is one of these people that would send in codes to be broken and we now know it was Edgar Allan Poe that was sending these into the newspaper using that name as an alias.  Poe published two ciphers in December 1839.  In 1985, Professor Louis Renza proved that WB Tyler was actually Edgar Allan Poe.  In 1992 Professor Terence Whalen solved the first cipher, which turned out to be a passage in Joseph Addison’s 1713 play “CATO”.  This play premiered on April 14, 1713. The second code was much harder to crack and in July 2000 was finally decoded using a poly-alphabetic substitution cipher.  This is what was decoded that Poe wrote hidden within knowing that it may not be decoded until after he was gone. 

            “Ye who read are still among the living; but I who write shall have long since gone my way into the region of shadows.  For indeed strange things shall happen, and secret things be known, and many centuries shall pass away, ere these memorials be seen of men. And, when seen, there will be some to disbelieve, and some to doubt, and yet a few who will find much to ponder upon in the characters here graven with a stylus of iron” EAP Shadow – A Parable

What secret things will be known? There will be some to disbelieve and some to doubt and yet a few who will find much to ponder. What is he referring to? Is this a clue to look for these secret things or did he think they will be discovered first before this cipher was decoded?

Edgar Allan Poe put ciphers in the Philadelphia paper Alexander's Weekly Express Messenger, he would put them in the paper asking people to cipher them. During this time period he wrote an essay on "A few words on secret writings". His short story "The Gold Bug" published in 1843 incorporated a lot of ciphers within the story that the secret message would lead to a buried Captain Kidd’s treasure. Could have Edgar Allan Poe have known of Captain Kidd’s connection with the freemasonry? In 1695 the English royal commission Kidd as a privateer to seize French ships. Kidd was a Scottish sailor born in 1655 and died on May 23, 1701. He pretended to sail under and flying the French color flag which got him up close to attack the French ships. In the Trinity Church’s graveyard along Wall Street in New York, there are some of Captain Kidd’s crew buried there with freemasonry symbols on the gravestones. Some of Kidd’s treasure may have been from ancient Roman which could have been Templar treasure from Jerusalem or Constantinople. Captain Kidd helped build the Trinity Church in New York. This is the famous church made famous in the movie National Treasure. Captain Kidd was hung but the rope broke the first time, and he was hung on the second try.

Edgar Allan Poe was fascinated by Captain Kidd’s life.  Edgar Allan Poe was not very creative with names and places he would always use names of people that he knew of or had heard about, and his stories took place in places he had been to or had read about. Captain Kidd was on the Island of Mobila one of the Comoro Islands when fever struck his crew.  Fifty men died in about a week after stopping on April 13, 1697, at the Island of Johanna, they then set sail from the island on April 18th.  Henry Avery also liked the Comoro Islands.  Captain Kidd departed in a ship early 1698 to go taken back to New York, where he was arrested at the Governors house in Boston.  Sent to England and was hung on May 23, 1701.  Since he was arrested in Boston, everyone thought his enormous treasure was buried nearby somewhere.  He was hung for crimes he committed in Moroni on Grand Comoro.   Did Edgar Allan Poe get inspired by Captain Kidd which gave him names and places in the Book of Mormon?   Angel Moroni which met Joseph Smith on October 22, 1823.    Kidd’s treasure also had stories of murdered guardian ghosts same as in the book of Mormon.  Did he get the name Cumorah hill form Captain Kidd as well? Joseph Smith was also inspired by Captain Kidd, before he wrote the Book of Mormon, he was a treasure hunter.

Edgar Allan Poe wrote “An Enigma” which is a poem sonnet that has conceal an anagram of Sarah Anna Lewis. Using the first letter of the first line, then the second letter in the second line, and so on, he spells out her name. These letters all have a predetermined order and a predetermined place in every line of the poem in order to spell out her name. Poe also sends in cryptography valentine poems to Frances Sargent Osgood as well using this same method.

Poe also used a method called “steganography” which needs an agreement between the sender and receiver on how it is written and how to extract the message. This can be as simple as taking the first letter of each sentence or the first letter from each line. This can be complex since the hidden message has predetermined positions within another text of letters. In “Eureka” Poe talks about Champollion the person who deciphered the Egyptian hieroglyphs, Poe then states, “that he himself has stolen a golden secret from the Egyptians”.

Edgar Allan Poe short story “The conversations of Eiros and Charmion” the two men talk about the end of the world that was hit by a comet.   In the short story the characters talked about the scientists saying that not to worry, that it will not harm us and will miss hitting Earth. The scientists were wrong, or they did not want to tell them the truth. 

Some people claim that if time travel becomes possible in our future and if anyone from our future traveled back to our past, then that person would have been Edgar Allan Poe. Poe liked to use names and places that he was formulary to him.

“The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket” In 1838 Poe published this novel which details of a mutiny on a whaling ship lost at sea and the sailors revert to cannibalism by drawing straws. The boy named Richard Parker draws the short straw and is eaten. In 1884 almost 50 years later four men lost at sea and shipwrecked without food they then elect to kill and eat 17-year-old cabin boy named Richard Parker.

“The Businessman” in 1840 a man suffers from a traumatic head injury to a young boy frontal lobe leading to a life of sociopathic outbursts and violent behavior. In 1848 a railroad worker suffered a brain injury after taking an iron spike to his frontal lobe. He survived and had personality changes as well.

Eureka - Last book Poe wrote, which is a 150-page prose poem. He describes the big bang theory, the Olbers’ paradox about light from the expanding universe has not yet reached our solar system, Darkness at Night was published in 1987. Alberto Cappi speaks out that no astronomer in Poe’s day could have known about non-static universe. Poe talks about black holes and that there is a black hole in the center of our galaxy. He is the first to bring up the big bang and how the universe was created with a single “primordial particle” that exploded outwards in “one instantaneous flash”. This was 80 years before other scientists started thinking about this possibility.

I am not saying Poe is a time traveler, but it does make good science fiction and makes us think about the possibilities for now. Albert Einstein’s good friend, Kurt Godel, was studying for his US citizenship test in 1947. Some claim Kurt Godel along with Aristotle to be the smartest person to have ever lived. He found the flaw that would have allowed the American democracy to be legally turned into a dictatorship. Albert Einstein was present as a witness in the court room. Judge Phillip Forman asked Godel what the government of Austria was, Godel replied “It was a republic, but the constitution was such that it finally was changed into a dictatorship” The judge made a comment that this could not happen in the US and Godel responded “Oh, yes, I can prove it”. Godel later became so paranoid that he starved himself to death. He believed time travelers from the future was out to kill him because he knew how to change the loophole in the constitution. He was very suspicious of all food and that someone was trying to kill him and trying to poison his food, he weighed only 65 pounds.

Edgar Allan Poe was very clear that you should not take Eureka literally and that it needs to be read as a prose poem. Why was it so important for him to have this book “copy written” by an attorney before copy writing was popular? So many people read Eureka when it was first published and for that matter people today are still trying to understand the scientific facts he was describing. The scientific and literal facts is not what he was truly writing about, and he intended us to read this as a poem. The literal words is not what Poe intended at all. This prose poem, Poe claims to be his best work he had ever written not for its literal content or story. Remember Poe is a master of so many languages and to get his prose poem to work and to be able to hide a message within it. This is what Poe was best at. Poe could easily find a word that means the same thing or even miss spell the word on purpose or even make up a word that does not exist or just change the grammar or font type set in the word to make his cipher work. Why did he say in Eureka that the speed of light was only 167,000 miles per second when he knew in 1729 Bradley’s value his 188,500 miles per second and then in 1849 the year, he wrote Eureka, Fizeau measured the speed of light as 194,000 miles per second? Edgar Allan Poe dedicated “Eureka” to the explorer Alexander von Humboldt. Alexander von Humboldt understood this book as an “enjoyable satire on science”. Poe once said that “Eureka” contained “The answers to all the big questions and was not meant for the scientific value”.

Edgar Allan Poe “presents his Eureka as an offering to those who feel rather than those who think – to the dreamers and those who put faith in dreams as the only realities.  I offer this Book of Truths, not in its character of Truth-Teller, but for the Beauty that abounds in its Truth; constituting it true.”  These are hints in on how to read or decode Eureka as not for what the actual content but to be read as a poem.  Line by line.  Why are some words chaptalized in the middle of a sentence, why was spelling and grammar a big issue and the font type that changed all of sudden?  Poe states in the introduction “What I here propound is true: -- therefore it cannot die: or if by any means it be now trodden down so that it die, it will “rise again to the Life Everlasting.”  Then he finishes the introduction by saying “Nevertheless it is as a Poem only that I wish this work to be judged after I am dead.”  He once said that he will be the most famous person to ever lived on earth but for reasons not yet known and these reasons will not come to light for another 2000 years.  Is Eureka, Edgar Allan Poe’s confession? Edgar signed copies of Eureka with his handwritten comments correcting the printer’s errors, are these corrections needed to decode Eureka?

After Eureka was published, he wrote “I have no desire to live since I have done Eureka, I could accomplish nothing more.” He told a friend that “he believed his contemporary generation was unable to understand it but that it would be appreciated, if ever, two thousand years later.” Why would it take so long, two thousand years for us to finally understand the impact Eureka has? Poe once said that Eureka would one day be found to be “of greater importance than Newton’s discovery of gravitation.”

Poe also wrote in Eureka (paraphrasing Kepler), “ I care not whether my work be read now or by posterity. I can afford to wait a century for readers when God himself has waited six thousand years for an observer. I triumph. I have stolen the golden secret of the Egyptians. I will indulge my sacred fury.” We have waited more than a century, it’s time we read Eureka the way Poe intended it to be read.

Edgar Allan Poe dedicated “Eureka” to Alexander Von Humbolt, a German geographer, naturalist and explorer. Humbolt claimed Eureka was written as a satire and should not be based on facts.

Why did Edgar Allan Poe write Eureka and why was it so important to him? Did the death of Joseph Smith on June 27, 1844, be the reason for Edgar Allan Poe to write and code messages within Eureka? Eureka was published less than four years later in March 1848

In the Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith only used the name Jehovah two times. You would have expected to see the name Jehovah used more since the people of the Book of Mormon were of Jewish descent. The name “Jehovah” is an Anglicized version of the Hebrew “Jahveh” or “Yahweh”. Joseph Smith instead of using Jehovah he uses our “Lord”, which is more related to the newer English version than ancient Hebrew. Jehovah or YHWH which is the proper name of God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. However, at the end of the last chapter, Joseph Smith ends the Book of Mormon using the name Jehovah. Moroni 10:34 “And now I bid unto all, farewell. I soon go to a rest in the paradise of God, until my spirit and body shall again reunite, and I am brought forth triumphant through the air, to meet you before the pleasing bar of the great Jehovah, the Eternal Judge of both quick and dead. Amen. The End”

Edgar Allan Poe also ends Eureka using the name Jehovah. “Think that the sense of individual identity will be gradually merged in the general consciousness—that Man, for example, ceasing imperceptibly to feel himself Man, will at length attain that awfully triumphant epoch when he shall recognize his existence as that of Jehovah. In the meantime, bear in mind that all is Life—Life—Life within Life—the less within the greater, and all within the Spirit Divine. The End”

Edgar Allan Poe was mumbling "Reynolds" over and over as he was dying on October 7, 1849. Could this have been Joseph H. Reynolds, Reynolds Cahoon or Governor Thomas Reynolds of Missouri? Sheriff Joseph H. Reynolds was involved in the extradition of Mormons. and arrested Joseph Smith. Reynolds Cahoon constructed the temple in Kirtland, was a member of the Kirtland Safety Society, Kirtland High Council and was the inaugural member of the Council of Fifty that Joseph Smith organized in 1844. Reynolds Cahoon advised Joseph Smith to surrender to the law in Carthage that led to Joseph’s death. Governor Thomas Reynolds made charges against Joseph Smith in connection with the Mormon War in 1838 and the attempted assassination of former Governor Boggs in 1842 and the extradition of the Mormons in 1843. Some say Poe could have died from rabbis that he got from a cat and the cat died later that week.  Others believe since it was election time, and he was found next to a voting pole that he was drugged in order to get him to vote for a certain candidate. This election fraud was common at that time, and they were usually left in a back alley to sleep it off and some would die. Then others believe that he was spreading to much anti-freemasonic information in his short stories, did he know too much, everyone at the time knew that Edgar was very much involved in the anti-masonic movement, since it was very political at the time. Still others believe he was just robbed he had $2,500.00 on him (which is over $75,000.00 dollars today), why did he have this much money with him? What was the money for? Poe may have suffered from lead poisoning from the treatment of syphilis, which had heavy amounts of lead. Poe also had a cocaine and opium addiction. At the time cocaine and opium was popular, which was in the form of laudanum. The opium trade led to the war of 1839 between Great Britain and China. Edgar Allan Poe wrote “Kubla Khan” as a result of an opium dream. In 1848, Poe attempted suicide by overdosing on laudanum.

Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Frances Sargent Osgood and Edgar Allan Poe was this a love triangle and the reason that Griswold hated Edgar Allan Poe?  Did Osgood have Edgar A Poe’s child?   Or was there more to this?  Are the love letters just a front that may have decrypted messages within the letters?

After Edgar Allan Poe’s death, Rufus W. Griswold gains control of Edgar Allan Poe’s rights to all of his work. However, Griswold did not really want to sell any of his books. Griswold puts a pamphlet inside each book that is sold that undermines Edgar Allan Poe’s character, saying he was addicted to drugs and that he had mental problems. In Europe Edgar Allan Poe’s popularity grow stronger since Griswold didn’t have control of his work there.

The toast master that brings cognac and three roses to celebrate his birthday for seven decades to Edgar Allan Poe’s grave site, what was he celebrating? Was this a second wave time traveler? He started in 1930’s about 80 years after Poe’s death thru 1998.

It seems like the Mormons are keeping a close eye on Edgar Allan Poe as if they are still afraid of him or are they grateful toward him?  Edgar Allan Poe’s New York house was moved to the Edgar Allan Poe’s Park in 1903. This house is less than 200 feet, door to door to an LDS church, which is just across the street.  Why do they want to be so close to him, both symbolically and physically?    

At the time the Book of Mormon was written, Edgar Allan Poe was communicating a lot with 2 individuals. One was his older brother William Henry Leonard Poe the other was Dr. Charles Anthon.

On August 1, 1831, Henry Poe died at the age of 24 from tuberculosis shortly after the Book of Mormon was published. Edgar was with Henry when he died, and his death influenced him and in his writings. Like Edgar, Henry was also a poet and was also inspired by Lord Byron. On May 19, 1827, Henry published “Dreams” and then shortly after that he published the short story “The Pirate”. In this short story the main character was named Edgar Leonard which is a combination of both brother’s names. Henry was a sailor and traveled around the globe. Was it Henry that was arrested in St Petersburg instead of Edgar? Did Henry influence the Book of Mormon by the places that he had been? Did the public ridicule of the Jefferson Bible influence the brothers, and did they think they could write a better bible, that would lead to the Book of Mormon?

Dr. Charles Anton was a professor of Latin and Greek at Columbia College. This is where Joseph Smith’s scribe, Martin Harris visited Charles Anthon many times. Charles Anthon was Edgar’s friend, in which they both loved the ancient languages and worked together in Egyptian hieroglyphs, which Joseph Smith claimed to have translated the Book of Mormon from the reformed Egyptian writing that was on the plates. In 1828 the Anthon Transcript that was to confirm the authenticity of the translation in writing, however Anthon is believed to have said it was a hoax. Later in 1980 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believed the Anthon Transcript to be a forgery by Mark Hofmann. Anthon reported tore up the authentication and stated that there was no such thing as angels and asked Harris to bring him the plates for translations, which Harris never did.

The mummy of Padihershef, found in Thebes, was imported to the United States by Dutch merchant Jacob Van Lennep, said Paul Chapman, Zervas Distinguished Professor of neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and attending surgeon at MGH. As a gift to the young hospital, which admitted its first patient in 1821, Padihershef’s primary purpose was to raise money: in Boston and later Baltimore, spectators paid 25 cents to see what a local newspaper called a “curious relic of Antiquity.” Upon its arrival at MGH, the mummy was briefly examined by surgeon John Collins Warren (then dean of HMS), who unwrapped its head and neck. Detailed academic study, however, has occurred only in the past 50 years, when Egyptologists transcribed the coffin’s hieroglyphics to determine the mummy’s name, age, and former occupation: Padihershef, meaning “gift of the god Hershef,” had been a stonemason during Egypt’s Twenty-Fifth Dynasty, in the early seventh century B.C.E.

Padihershef, one of the first complete Egyptian mummies to reach the United States, arrived in 1823 as a gift from the City of Boston. For well over a century, the mummy and its inner coffin have been on display in the hospital’s original operating room, a background to countless scientific lectures and achievements—most notably, the first public demonstration of surgery under anesthesia in 1846, which has given the amphitheater its present title: the Ether Dome.

Van Lennep sent Padi to Boston on the ship Sally Ann along with his standard shipment of raisins, wool, rugs and opium. He arrived at Boston Harbor on April 25th, 1823, and was given to the hospital on May 4th. Padihershef was the first mummy ever shipped to the United States, as far as we know. He caused a sensation and was promptly put to use raising funds for the hospital which charged the curious 25 cents a visit. He was briefly leased to an oddities impresario who took him on a tour of American cities so visitors could pay $2.50 to catch a glimpse of him.

Between April 1833 and June 1835, Michael Chandler toured the eastern United States, displaying and selling seven of the mummies as he went along. In April 1833, he displayed them first at the masonic hall and then the arcade in Philadelphia. His display attracted large crowds wherever he went. The first complete mummy ever displayed to the public in the United States arrived just ten years earlier in 1823, and had set off a mania in the United States for mummies and Egypt.[32] Chandler's exhibit of eleven mummies was the largest ever up to that point in the United States.[20] While Chandler was in Philadelphia, a doctor named W. E. Horner gathered six other doctors and gave Chandler an unsolicited endorsement of his collection:

Van Lennep Jacob van Lennep (24 March 1802 – 25 August 1868) was a Dutch poet and novelist. His first poetical efforts had been translations from Byron, of whom he was an ardent admirer, and in 1826 he published a collection of original Academische Idyllen

In early July 1835, Joseph Smith and other Latter-day Saints in Kirtland, Ohio, acquired four ancient Egyptian mummies and several papyrus scrolls from Michael Chandler, an antiquities dealer visiting the area. Shortly after receiving this certification, Joseph Smith, Joseph Coe, and Simeon Andrews purchased the four mummies and at least five papyrus documents for $2,400,[56] which is about $70,000 in 2019 US dollars.[57]

Poe himself was no stranger to mummies. When he was 14, he undoubtedly saw a mummy on display in the Virginia State Capitol, which was only a couple blocks from Poe’s home.

"Some Words with a Mummy" is a satirical short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in The American Review: A Whig Journal of Politics, Literature, Art and Science in April 1845. It is an important early portrayal of a revived Egyptian mummy.

Rosetta Stone is Deciphered on September 27th, 1822: Thomas Young deciphered the Rosetta Stone, allowing for the translation of Egyptian Hieroglyphics into modern languages. Young made significant contributions to the decipherment of ancient Egyptian writing systems. He started his Egyptology work rather late, in 1813, when the work was already in progress among other researchers.

Thomas Young FRS (13 June 1773 – 10 May 1829) was a British polymath who made notable contributions to the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, language, musical harmony, and Egyptology. He was instrumental in the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs, specifically the Rosetta Stone.

Young has been described as "The Last Man Who Knew Everything". At age 14, Young was translating passages from the Bible into 13 languages, including Chaldean, Samaritan, Syriac and Ethiopian. He invented a new universal phonetic alphabet.

By the age of fourteen, Young had learned Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Syriac, Samaritan Hebrew, Arabic, Biblical Aramaic, Persian, Turkish, and Ge'ez. in 1803 he showed how a ray of light split in two produced a pattern of light and dark bands, corresponding to the places where the waves added together or cancelled out and vanished.

Young described the characterization of elasticity that came to be known as Young's modulus, denoted as E, in 1807, The Young's modulus relates the stress (pressure) in a body to its associated strain (change in length as a ratio of the original length); that is, stress = E × strain, for a uniaxially loaded specimen.

Young's equation describes the contact angle of a liquid drop on a plane solid surface as a function of the surface free energy, the interfacial free energy and the surface tension of the liquid. Young's equation was developed further some 60 years later by Dupré to account for thermodynamic effects, and this is known as the Young–Dupré equation.

"Languages", Young compared the grammar and vocabulary of 400 languages. In a separate work in 1813, he introduced the term Indo-European languages, 165 years after the Dutch linguist and scholar Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn proposed the grouping to which this term refers in 1647.

It was Jean-Francois Champollion (1790-1832), a French linguist, who finally achieved the breakthrough: Unlike Young, he spoke fluent Coptic and knew a great deal about Egypt and its culture. He discovered that the characters of the Demotic script stood for syllables, while the Ptolemaic hieroglyphs in turn reflected sounds of the Coptic language.

"This allowed Champollion to prove that the Coptic language was behind the hieroglyphic script," Hanover-based Egyptologist Christian Loeben told DW. "That's how he deciphered the hieroglyphs The top and middle texts are in Ancient Egyptian using hieroglyphic and Demotic scripts respectively, while the bottom is in Ancient Greek. The decree has only minor differences between the three versions, making the Rosetta Stone key to deciphering the Egyptian scripts.Jean-François Champollion was not a mathematician, having very little mathematical training. We have included him in this archive, partly because his approach to solving the problems of hieroglyphics was similar to the approach that a mathematician would take in solving problems, partly because some mathematicians worked on the same problems, and partly because his work in understanding hieroglyphics eventually led to others understanding more about the mathematical skills of the ancient Egyptians. By the age of ten, Jean-François had not only mastered French but could read Greek and Latin and recite passages from Homer and Virgil, In 1808 he first began working on the Rosetta stone. Let us briefly explain the importance of this object. The Rosetta stone was found by soldiers from Napoleon's army when digging the foundations of a fort near the town of Rosetta in July 1799. It was clear to the officer in charge that it was an important discovery which, after Napoleon's defeat, became the property of the British. Champollion's interest in Egyptian history and the hieroglyphic script developed at an early age. At the age of sixteen, he gave a lecture before the Grenoble Academy in which he argued that the language spoken by the ancient Egyptians, in which they wrote the Hieroglyphic texts, was closely related to Coptic. This view proved crucial in becoming able to read the texts, and the correctness of his proposed relation between Coptic and Ancient Egyptian has been confirmed by history. This enabled him to propose that the demotic script represented the Coptic language. Already in 1806, he wrote to his brother about his decision to become the one to decipher the Egyptian script: But later in life, Champollion suffered from muscle weakness, limb paralysis and ultimately could not breathe. He didn’t suffer from heart disease or lack of blood flow. “Furthermore, at the moment of decipherment of hieroglyphs (1828), he is noted to have collapsed, though this may be viewed as a vasovagal [fainting] episode as a result of extreme emotional outpouring. In his final weeks he became emotionally labile consistent with progression of pseudobulbar dysfunction, and eventually demonstrated a ‘locked-in’ syndrome before his death.”

If you ask AI to compare Edgar Allan Poe’s poetry with the book of mormon you get this response. Given the distinct differences in thematic content, literary style, and purpose between "Al Aaraaf" and the poetry in the Book of Mormon, it is unlikely that they were written by the same person. Poe's early work, including "Al Aaraaf," reflects his individual style and thematic interests, which are markedly different from the scriptural and moral focus of the Book of Mormon.

Joseph Smith claimed that the Book of Mormon was translated from ancient records, and its content reflects a different religious and historical context compared to Poe’s literary output. While both works explore profound themes, their stylistic and thematic differences suggest separate origins.

Conclusion: The literary and thematic differences between Poe's "Al Aaraaf" and the poetry in the Book of Mormon suggest that they were not written by the same person. The poetic elements in each work reflect different influences and purposes, with Poe's work focusing on Romantic and mystical themes, and the Book of Mormon's poetry emphasizing religious instruction and Biblical style.

If you ask AI to compare Henry Poe’s poetry with the book of mormon you get this response. While William Henry Leonard Poe's poetry and the poetry in the Book of Mormon share some similarities in their use of traditional poetic forms, their thematic focus and stylistic execution differ significantly. Henry Poe’s poetry is more personal and emotionally driven, reflecting Romantic influences, whereas the poetry in the Book of Mormon is doctrinal and scriptural, using a formal and structured style aimed at religious instruction. Therefore, while both bodies of work exhibit poetic qualities, their differences in theme, tone, and purpose suggest that they are products of distinct literary and religious contexts.

Key People in the Anti-Masonic Movement, Mormon and Freemasonry and their connections with one another

Edgar Allan Poe was famous for his pollical views and his strong opinions against the freemasonry. Why did he dislike the freemason’s pollical views so much? Napoleon, Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe were all freemasons. Edgar Allan Poe was born in 1809 during the Napoleonic wars. Napoleon died in 1821. In 1800, Napoleon, the First Consul of the French Republic, regained the ownership of Louisiana in exchange for Tuscany. On April 11, 1803, agreed to sell all of Louisiana for $15 million, and signed the Louisiana Purchase Treaty on April 30, 1803. The USA tried to stay neutral in the Napoleonic War, however it led to the War of 1812 against the British. The War of 1812 was from June 18, 1812, to February 17, 1815. Shortly after the war, Poe’s family sailed to the United Kingdom in 1815, and Poe attended school.

William Morgan - a freemason that started this powerful movement against the freemasons, by exposing masonic secrets in his book. Later he was kidnapped and killed by masons in Western New York.

Lucinda Pendleton - William Morgan’s wife. When they got married, she was 18 years old, and William was 45. Six years later William was kidnapped after publishing his book with the masonic secrets. Later in 1830 she married Brother George W. Harris in Batavia, NY. In the spring of 1938 Joseph Smith stays with the Harris family for a few months. At that time Lucinda marries Joseph Smith and is Lucinda Pendleton Morgan Harris, however like most of Joseph Smith’s marriages Lucinda still lives with her previous husband George Harris. They then relocated to Nauvoo in early 1840’s along with Joseph Smith. Joseph Smith was then killed in Nauvoo on June 27, 1844. After Joseph’s death her marriage was commemorated in a proxy sealing for eternity to Joseph Smith in the Nauvoo Temple on January 22, 1846. She left the church and died at the home of her daughter, Lucinda Wesley Smith. Why did Lucinda Pendleton Haris Smith leave the Mormon Church after Joseph Smith died?

Lucinda Wesley Smith - some people believe she had a relationship with Benjamin Johnson and Joseph Smith when she was 16. Her mother talked her into marrying David Bates Smith instead.

Solomon Southwick - Newspaper publisher and editor, bank president and political figure, was the principal organizer of the Anti-Masonic Party. He died suddenly in Albany on November 18, 1839. Wrote and published “A Solemn Warning Against Free-Masonry” Edgar Allan Poe published articles in the “The Family Magazine” which was edited by Solomon Southwick.

Thurlow Weed - New York newspaper publisher and lead the Whigs party throughout the 1830s and 1840s. Thurlow Weed was one of the original founders of the Republican party. Friends with Edgar Allan Poe - Letters between the two are on the internet.

Thurlow Weed was also good friends with Joseph Smith and Martin Haris. Joseph Smith wanted Weed to publish the Book of Mormon. Joseph called on Thurlow Weed in Rochester, New York, former editor and publisher of the Rochester Telegraph and then the publisher of the Anti-Masonic Enquirer. Weed’s second refusal led Joseph to the Rochester office of Elihu F. Marshall, a book publisher.

Thomas Moore was famous for his political views and was a writer for the Whigs that supported the anti-freemasonry movement. Thomas Moore destroy Byron’s Memoirs. Poe before the age of 14 wrote “Al Aaraaf” in Europe which has a connection with Moore and Byron.

Daniel Webster - ran in the 1836 presidential election and supported Harrison in 1840 and was appointed Secretary of State and then returned to the Senate in 1845.

John Quincy Adams - Like Poe, he spoke eight languages. Famous for his support in the Anti-masonic movement. “To all members of the Masonic fraternity, who entered it before the murder of Morgan I would extend the most liberal Toleration. Most of them took the Oaths without reflecting upon what they imported or sheltering their consciences under the great names which had gone before them. They were always taken by surprise, summoned to take the Oath without knowing what it was. Now the case is otherwise. How they can now take or administer the cutthroat Oath to keep Secret, what all the world knows, I cannot comprehend. “The masons lost 70% of their members within 5 years. If Joseph Smith had help writing the Book of Mormon, you would think he would have sent them a signed copy of the Book of Mormon as a thank you gift. He only sent out a hand full of signed copies. One that was signed by Joseph Smith was Emma Smith’s personal Book of Mormon that Joseph gave to Charles Francis Adams Sr the son of John Quincy Adams in Nauvoo just before Joseph was killed. Charles then wrote below his signature, “The above is the autograph of the chief of the Mormons who gave me this book at Nauvoo on the 15th of May 1844. Did John Quincy Adams have a part in writing of the book of Mormon? This is a stretch, but we need to feel in the gaps. Let’s say Edgar Allan Poe and his brother, Henry Poe wrote the bible. Was it Henry Poe that got arrested in St. Petersburg Russia and not E. A. Poe? At the time of his arrest John Quincy Adams was the first official US representative to Russian and he could have been the one that got Henry out of prison. Joseph Smith’s brother, Hyrum Smith signed one of the first books printed in Palmyra, NY in 1830, “Hyrum Smith’s Book”. This book was owned by freed slaves and was keep in their family for 140 years.

Emma Smith, which is Joseph Smith’s first wife. In l825 Joseph Smith lived in Palmyra, NY near the banks of the Erie Canal. Late in 1826, Joseph Smith had been searching for lost treasure by using a seer stone. Josiah Stowell hired Joseph Smith to locate the lost Spanish Silver “Dream Mine” treasure. Joseph Smith was arrested for “pretending to discover where lost goods may be found by using a seer stone”. The trial was in South Bainbridge, NY in 1826. While Joseph was working for Stowell, Joseph and his father boarded with the Hales, which is how Joseph meet Emma Hale. Joseph and Emma eloped because her father did not think very kindly of Joseph. They got married in South Bainbridge, NY in 1827. Emma was with Joseph and help him script the Book of Mormon. Why did she leave the Church of Mormon after Joseph died?

V. President John C. Calhoun - Well known Freemason that did not care for Joseph Smith and did not think he should run for presidency. Joseph Smith was also not very impressed with Calhoun. His son John C. Calhoun Jr and his brother Patrick arrived in Nauvoo the day that Governor Thomas Ford was sent to arrest Joseph Smith. John C. Calhoun Jr. and Patrick Calhoun meet with Joseph Smith on June 22, 1844, at the Masion House which was guarded by 300 men. Joseph Smith was killed 5 days later on June 27, 1844.

William Wirt - A former Freemason, was the first Anti-Masonic nominee for president in 1832 election. US attorney General. He was the prosecutor in the Aaron burr’s trial for treason. Like Edgar Allan Poe both of William Wirt’s parents died before he was eight. In 1970s Wirt’s skull was stolen out of his tomb in Washington DC and later returned in 2005. Wirt spent a lot of time at University of Virginia and Edgar Allan Poe helped him with his campaign and he was told he would have an office if he was elected president.

President William Henry Harrison -The Anti-Masonic candidate in 1835 changed to Whig Party in 1839, was only President for 31 days March 4, 1841, to April 4, 1841

Zachary Taylor Whig Party - President of United States died 16 months into his term on July 9, 1850. Some believe Taylor was assassinated as a result of being poisoned. His body was exhumed on June 17, 1991, and no evidence of poisoning as arsenic levels were too low. The evidence concluded Taylor had contracted Cholera Morbus, however there is no confirmed cholera outbreaks in Washington at that time.

Millard Fillmore 13th President of the United States the last member of the Whig Party, succeeded to the presidency in July 1850 upon the death of Zachary Taylor

Abraham Lincoln’s personal, campaign and political advisor was William H. Seward. William H. Seward was a member of the Anti-Masonic Party and Whig Party. He was elected to the New York Senate in 1830 as an Anti-Mason. Andrew Johnson a member of the Whig Party at the time of Lincoln’s assassination. The assassination attempts against Seward and Andrew Johnson failed. After Lincoln’s assassination, Andrew Johnson became president and accompanying him was his ex-slave, Henry. He freed is slaves on August 8, 1863, the slaves remained with him as paid servants. Anti-Mason Thaddeus Stevens also an advisor to Lincoln

John Wilks Booth member of the Knights of the Golden Circle, Boston Corbett shot Booth on April 26, 1865. Boston Corbett with devout religious beliefs. Out of response to two prostitutes’ actions in 1858 Corbett made himself a eunuch, had a full dinner, took a stroll through the city and then checked himself into the Massachusetts General Hospital. He was quoting Matthew 19:12 “there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuch for the sake of the kingdom of heaven.”

Latter-day Saints & Masons

The first five Latter-day prophets were Freemasons, Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff and Lorenzo Snow. All were members of the Lodge in Nauvoo; the location Joseph was killed. Joseph Smith’s last words was the Masonic Distress Call for any Mason who hears another Mason utter the Grand Hailing Sign must come to his aid. He must have known there were freemasons in the mob that was going to kill him, which were fellow members in the Lodge in Nauvoo and some of these masons could also have been members of the church. As he yells “Oh Lord, my God, is there no help for the widow’s son?” No one comes to his aid. Was this all planed out ahead of time to make his own death’s prophesy come true?

Joseph Smith’s brother, Hyrum Smith was also a freemason. Joseph Smith’s father was a freemason while they lived near Palmyra, New York, which is a town along the banks of the Erie Canal.

Same symbols. All-Seeing Eye, Handshakes and Handclasp, Bees and Beehives, Holiness to the Lord, the endowment

Prophesies

Edgar Allan Poe and Joseph Smith both had similar prophesies

Civil War, both accurately predicts the sequence of events that lead to the Civil War.

Both believed that an apocalyptic event would start from an asteroid or a comet hitting the earth.

At the time Joseph Smith was assassination he had a lot of dreams and prophesies that center around the USA future after an apocalyptic event. At the time he was running in the US Presidential election in 1844. On March 11, 1844, Joseph Smith set up the Council of Fifty, which was organized for the protection of civil and religious liberty. The Council of Friends was later formed which is a three-member council body and function as the political Kingdom of God for the 1000-year time period between the apocalyptic event and the Second Coming of Jesus. Then the Melchizedek priesthood was formed with the authority veto power over the Council of Fifty, this was held by a single individual. Joseph Smith was ordained “King” on April 11, 1844, to hold the office of the Melchizedek priest and was set to preside over the political kingdom of God. Joseph Smith was killed two months later on June 27, 1844.

Joseph Smith’s “White Horse Prophesy” was that after an apocalyptic event the US government would hang by a tread and a dictatorship would be set in place to protect the people. The LDS community by using the Mormon Welfare system came together all over the world to give aid to those in need. With the support of the people the LDS leaders were able to bring the US government back to the people and restored their civil rights. Shortly after they restructured the United Nations along with the new world government known to the LDS leaders as the Kingdom of God on Earth, which would allow each individual to live under true freedom and liberty.

Lucinda Pendleton Morgan Harris Smith & Joseph Smith’s assassination prophesy

Lucinda Pendleton marries William Morgan in 1819. William Morgan starts the anti-masonry moment in 1826. November 24, 1830 – Lucinda Pendleton gets remarried to George Washington Harris in Batavia, NY. Lucinda and Joseph Smith have an affair that starts in 1838, if not before. Joseph Smith may have had an affair with her daughter Lucinda Wesley Morgan Smith. Lucinda Wesley Smith - some people believe she had a relationship with Benjamin Johnson and Joseph Smith when she was 16. Her mother talked her into marrying David Bates Smith instead. June 10, 1844 – Lucinda Pendleton Harris’ husband George W. Harris is said to preside over and leads a city council meeting, where he is on record of being the one to propose the destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor. Destroying this printing press led to Joseph Smith’s arrest and assassination a few days later just as Joseph Smith had prophesied. On June 27 – Joseph Smith was killed at Carthage jail.

After Joseph Smith death, George Harris files for divorce and then both Lucinda Pendleton and George Harris left the church.

1819↑October 7 – Lucinda Pendleton (18 years old) marries William Morgan (about 45 years old) in Richmond, VA. They would have 2 children together, Lucinda Wesley Morgan and Thomas Jefferson Morgan.

1826↑Unknown – Lucinda Pendleton Morgan’s husband William Morgan (well-known anti-Mason) goes missing. His “disappearance and presumed murder in 1826 ignited a powerful movement against the Freemasons, a fraternal society that had become influential in the United States. After Morgan announced his intention to publish a book exposing Freemasonry’s secrets, he was arrested on trumped-up charges. He disappeared soon after and was believed to have been kidnapped and killed by Masons from western New York.”

1827↑January 18 – Joseph Smith Jr. lawfully marries Emma Hale in South Bainbridge, New York. She bore him 9 children

1830↑November 24 – Lucinda Pendleton gets remarried to George Washington Harris in Batavia, NY. George had previously been married to 2 wives: Elizabeth, married about 1800 and Margaret, who died in 1828. Lucinda’s first husband died in 1826.

1831↑January – Joseph Smith moves to Kirtland, Ohio, a state where bigamy is a first degree misdemeanor and punishable by up to six months in jail

1834↑Fall – Lucinda Pendleton Harris is baptized by Orson Pratt in Terre Haute, IN

1836↑April 3 – “Sealing power” is received for the first time in this generation at the Kirtland chapel, according to Warren A. Cowdery’s notes

1838↑March 14 – Joseph Smith first on record of meeting Lucinda Pendleton Harris’s husband George,

1840↑Late July – Lucinda Pendleton Harris’s husband George Harris leaves on a mission to the eastern states (mainly New York) until September 1841.

1841↑September – Lucinda Pendleton Harris’s husband George Harris returned from a mission to the eastern states, having been gone since late July 1840.

1844↑-June 10 – Lucinda Pendleton Harris’ husband George W. Harris is said to preside over and leads a city council meeting, where he is on record of being the one to propose the destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor:

June 27 – Joseph Smith was killed at Carthage jail.
Late June (estimated)– Lucinda Pendleton Harris is later interpreted as Joseph Smith’s wife based on a single reference by non-Mormon journalist B. W. Richmond.

1845↑December 12 – Lucinda Pendleton Harris and George Harris both receive their endowment in the unfinished Nauvoo temple

1846↑January 2 – Lucinda Pendleton Harris is “proxy sealed” to Joseph Smith in the Nauvoo Temple “for time and all eternity”, with Joseph Smith having no say or choice in the matter, being a corpse that died 18 months earlier. In the same ceremony, Lucinda Pendleton Harris is sealed to her husband George Harris “for time” by Brigham Young.

1853↑Unknown – Lucinda Pendleton Harris on record of having abandoned her lawful husband George Washington Harris “without cause” according to William Leon Cummings’ record in 1934 (81 years later): “At some time prior to 1853, Mrs. Harris separated from her husband, for in 1856 [Mr.] Harris petitioned for a divorce, on the grounds that his wife had willfully deserted him and without reasonable cause absented herself for more than the space of three years.”

1856↑March 12 – Lucinda Pendleton Harris’s husband George Washington Harris files for a divorce, and the notice is posted in a local newspaper: “To Mrs. Lucinda Harris: Madam,–You are hereby notified that there will be on file, in the clerk’s office of the District Court of Pottawatomie county, Iowa, the petition of George W. Harris, claiming of you a divorce from the bonds of matrimony now existing between you and the said Geo. W. Harris, and charging you therein with willfully deserting him, and without reasonable cause absenting yourself for more than the space of three years.“

Unknown – Lucinda Pendleton Harris dies in Memphis, TN at the home of her daughter Lucinda Wesley Smith. (William Leon Cummings,

1860↑Unknown – Lucinda Pendleton Harris’s husband George Washington Harris dies an excommunicated member of the Utah LDS church, due to inactivity

1875↑, I notice a lady staging at the head of Joseph Smith’s body, her face covered and her whole frame convulsed with weeping. She was the widow of William Morgan, of Masonic memory, and twenty years before had stood over the body of her husband, found at the mouth of Oak Orchard Creek, on Lake Ontario…” From this, Historian Todd Compton later would conclude that Lucinda Harris was crying “over the body of her husband” (Joseph Smith), just as she had her first husband.

1886↑May 21 – Wilhelm Wyl publishes Sarah Pratt’s 3rd hand, 44 year old memory, stating that a “Mrs. Harris” (presumed to be Lucinda Pendleton Harris) was Joseph Smith’s “mistress” since about 1838. She recalled vividly: “Mrs. Harris was a married lady, a very great friend of mine. When Joseph had made his dastardly attempt on me, I went to Mrs. Harris to unbosom my grief to her. To my utter astonishment, she said, laughing heartily: ‘How foolish you are! I don’t see anything so horrible in it. Why, I am his MISTRESS SINCE FOUR YEARS!”

1899↑April 4 – Lucinda Pendleton Morgan Harris is once again “proxy sealed” vicariously to Joseph Smith in the Salt Lake Temple, with neither person having a choice in the matter, both being dead. It’s unknown why this ordinance was redone.

1934 – William Leon Cummings (a Masonic historian) writes in this year the most detailed account we have about Lucinda Pendleton Morgan Harris: “At some time prior to 1853, Mrs. Harris separated from her husband, for in 1856 Harris petitioned for a divorce, on the grounds that his wife had willfully deserted him and without reasonable cause absented herself for more than the space of three years. Morris [a Masonic historian] claims that Mrs. Harris (formerly Mrs. Morgan) joined the Roman Catholic Sisters of Charity, and was a nurse in a hospital in Memphis Tennessee, during the war of 1861–1865. [Other authors] have copied this statement. I have been unable to verify it from other sources, and the statement itself seems rather questionable. Neither the War Department records nor the records of the church contain any information concerning her. Furthermore, it has been ascertained that there were such requirements for membership in the Roman Catholic Sisterhoods, as age, financial resources, etc., with which it would seem that she would have been unable to comply. Recently discovered evidence proves that she died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lucinda Wesley Smith, in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1856, thus rendering untenable the theory that she was in any way connected with the hospital service during the War between the States.” (William Leon Cummings, “Bibliography of Anti-Masonry” 1:4, p.28)

George Orwell’s quotes

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”

“Who controls the past controls the future.  Who controls the present controls the past.”  Think of that with respect to time travel.

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”

“In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”

                                                                     George Orwell (Opening line in “1984”)