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when Joseph Smith, Jr. and his brother Hyrum Smith were killed in 1844 it sparked a Succession crisis with-in the Latter Day Saint movement between Sidney Rigdon, Brigham Young, James Strang, Granville Hedrick, Alpheus Cutler and Joseph Smith III, but what if Hyrum Smith didn't die that day and became the clear leader of the Mormons? would the LDS Church still be lead by Smiths?
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