Nauvoo, IL
Even from an early age these two shared an uncommen bond, even for brothers. Before the martyrdom in Carthage Joseph ordained Hyrum to succeed as President and pleaded with him to flee to the Rocky Mountains away from the mobs.
As the Carthage mob attacked the jail a bullet broke through the door hitting Hyrum in the face, while a second bullet hit him in the back from the window at the same time, he fell to the floor crying, "I am a dead man" He bleed to death in Joseph's arms, just moments before the Prophet's own death.
