By: Ardis E. Parshall - August 06, 2013 Willard W. Bean, the missionary and amateur boxer who was called by the Church to farm the old Joseph Smith farm in Palmyra, New York, took his family there in 1914 and faced a very harsh reception from local residents. By 1928, though, attitudes had changed, as he tells us in this narrative: Change of Sentiment By Willard W. BeanCaretaker of Cumorah When I arrived in Palmyra, with my family, in 19...
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