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The Temple Lot is owned by the Church of Christ (Temple Lot) also known as the "Hedrickites" after Granville Hedrick, an Elder ordained by Joseph Smith but who split with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints led by Brigham Young to Utah after the mur der of Joseph Smith in 1844. Hedrick led his Illinois based Church back to Missouri in 1867 to reclaim the Temple Lot which had been marked and dedicated in 1831 by Joseph Smith, et al. This is one of three main splinter groups including the RLDS Church led by Emmy Smith and her son Joseph Smith III and the LDS Church led by Brigham Young to Utah. The TLC and the RLDS opposed polygamy.
The TLC is the smallest group in membership size but holds the spot of land most coveted by all the other groups.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Christ_(Temple_Lot)
http://www.churchofchrist-tl.org/index.html
http://www.dlmark.net/tindependence.htm
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=church+of+christ+temple+lot&sm=Yahoo%21+Search&fr=FP-tab-web-t&toggle=1&cop=&ei=UTF-8