George A. Smith's Depressed Spirit and Horrifying Whispers

On June 27, 1844, while in Michigan, George A. Smith felt unusually cast down and depressed. He prayed in an oak grove for relief from a spell of horror. Later that night, he felt as if a fiend whispered in his ear, 'Joseph and Hyrum Smith are dead; ain’t you glad of it.'

Fuller account of this event (in the witness’s own words):

Elder George A. Smith rode with Elder Crandall Dunn, from Napoleon, to Elder Noah Willis Bartholemew’s, rear Jacksonburg, Jackson County, Michigan, and felt unusually cast down and depressed in spirits. About five o’clock he repaired to an oak grove, and called upon the Lord, endeavouring to break the spell of horror which had dominion over his mind. He remained there a long time without finding any relief, and then went back to brother Bartholemew’s, and went to bed with Elder Crandall Dunn, he could not sleep, but spent the night in a series of miserable thoughts and reflections. Once it seemed to him that some fiend whispered in his ear, “ Joseph and Hyrum Smith are dead ; ain’t you glad of it.”