Hiram Page

(c. 1800–August 12, 1852) was an early member of the Latter-day Saint movement and one of the Eight Witnesses to the Book of Mormon’s golden plates.

Page was born in Vermont. Earlier in his life, he studied medicine which he practiced during his travels throughout New York and Canada. On November 10, 1825, Page married Catherine Whitmer, daughter of Peter Whitmer, Sr. and Mary Musselman. The two had nine children together: John, Elizabeth, Philander, Mary, Peter, Nancy, Hiram, Oliver, and Kate.

Page became one of the Eight Witnesses during June 1829. He and Catherine were baptized into in the Church of Christ(later renamed the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) on April 11, 1830, by Oliver Cowdery. On June 9, he was ordained a teacher in the church, one of the church’s first twelve officers.

In January 1831, Page accompanied Lucy Mack Smith and a company of saints from Waterloo, New York, to Buffalo on the Erie Canal, on their way to Fairport and Kirtland, Ohio. In May 1831, Page moved his family to Thompson, Ohio, under Lucy Mack Smith’s direction. He again moved his family to Jackson County, Missouri, in 1832 and joined the Latter Day Saints gathering there. With the other Whitmers, they formed a cluster of ten or twelve homes called the «Whitmer Settlement». Hiram owned 120 acres (490,000 m2) of land in the area.

On September 6, 1847, William E. McLellin baptized Page, David Whitmer, John Whitmer, and Jacob Whitmer into his newly formed Church of Christ (Whitmerite). McLellin ordained Page a high priest in the church. Page participated in the subsequent ordinations of the others.

For almost 150 years, the final resting place of Page was unknown. However, in 2000, it was located near Excelsior Springs, on property purchased by Charles and Molly Fulkerson in 1917. Page’s burial location was the last of the 11 Book of Mormon witnesses to be identified. A commemorative marker was placed on Page’s grave on April 27, 2002.

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