Editing Hiram Page (section)

==Early involvement in the Latter Day Saint movement==
Page became one of the [[Eight Witnesses]] during June 1829.<ref>[http://josephsmithpapers.org/paperSummary/the-testimony-of-eight-witnesses-circa-june–august-1829 Testimony of Eight Witnesses] {{webarchive |url=https://archive.today/20120709080112/http://josephsmithpapers.org/paperSummary/the-testimony-of-eight-witnesses-circa-june%E2%80%93august-1829 |date=July 9, 2012 }}, The Joseph Smith Papers (accessed May 1, 2012)</ref>

He and Catherine were baptized into in the [[Church of Christ (Latter Day Saints) |Church of Christ]] (later renamed the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints)<ref name=1838name1>''Manuscript History of the Church'', LDS Church Archives, book A-1, p. 37; reproduced in Dean C. Jessee (comp.) (1989). ''The Papers of Joseph Smith: Autobiographical and Historical Writings'' (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book) '''1''':302–303.</ref><ref name=1838name2>[[H. Michael Marquardt]] and [[Wesley P. Walters]] (1994). ''Inventing Mormonism: Tradition and the Historical Record'' (Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books) p. 160.</ref> on April 11, 1830, by [[Oliver Cowdery]]. On June 9, he was ordained a [[teacher (Latter Day Saints) |teacher]] in the church, one of the church's first twelve officers.<ref>[http://josephsmithpapers.org/paperSummary/minutes-9-june-1830 Minutes of 9 June 1830 meeting], The Joseph Smith Papers (accessed May 1, 2012)</ref>

===Seer stone and revelations===
Page was living with his in-laws the [[Peter Whitmer Sr. |Whitmers]] in [[Fayette, New York]]. [[Joseph Smith Jr.]] arrived in August 1830 to discover Page using a black "[[Seer stone (Latter Day Saints) |seerstone]]" to produce revelations for the church. The revelations were regarding the organization and location of [[Zion (Latter Day Saints) |Zion]]. Cowdery and the Whitmer family believed the revelations were authentic. In response, Smith announced in a new revelation during the church's September [[General conference (Latter Day Saints) |conference]] that Page's revelations were of the devil ([[Doctrine and Covenants]], {{sourcetext |source=The Doctrine and Covenants |book=Section 28 |verse=11}}). At the conference there was considerable discussion on the topic. Page agreed to discard the stone and the revelations and join in following Smith as the sole [[prophet, seer, and revelator |revelator]] for the church. The members present confirmed this unanimously [[common consent (Latter Day Saints) |with a vote]]. The fate of the stone and revelations was not recorded by contemporary sources and has been the subject of interest ever since.<ref name=MacKay2016>{{cite book
 |last1=MacKay 
 |first1=Michael Hubbard
 |last2=Frederick
 |first2=Nicholas J.
 |date=August 29, 2016
 |title=Joseph Smith's Seer Stones
 |publisher=Deseret Book Company
 |page=<!-- I don't have my copy at present. -->
 |isbn=9781944394059
}}</ref> [[Martin Harris (Latter Day Saints) |Martin Harris's]] brother Emer stated second-hand in 1856 that the stone was ground to powder and the associated revelations were burned.<ref>Emer Harris statement, in Utah Stake General Minutes, Local Record 9629, ser. 11, vol. 10 (1855-60), 6 April 1856, Church History Library.</ref> [[Apostle (Latter Day Saints) |Apostle]] [[Alvin R. Dyer]] stated that he had discovered Page's seerstone in 1955, that it had been passed down through Jacob Whitmer's family.<ref>Dyer, Alvin R., ''Refiner's Fire: The Significance of Events Transpiring in Missouri'', 2nd ed. rev. (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1968), 257-259</ref> The validity of this claim has been questioned.<ref name=MacKay2016 />

===Migration to Ohio and Missouri===
In January 1831, Page accompanied [[Lucy Mack Smith]] and a company of saints from [[Waterloo, New York]], to [[Buffalo, New York |Buffalo]] on the [[Erie Canal]], on their way to [[Fairport Harbor, Ohio |Fairport]] and [[Kirtland, Ohio]]. In May 1831, Page moved his family to [[Thompson Township, Geauga County, Ohio |Thompson, Ohio]], under Lucy Mack Smith's direction. He again moved his family to [[Jackson County, Missouri]], in 1832 and joined the Latter Day Saints gathering there. With the other Whitmers, they formed a cluster of ten or twelve homes called the "Whitmer Settlement". Hiram owned {{convert |120 |acre |m2}} of land in the area.

During the growing [[anti-Mormon]] hostilities in Jackson County, Page was severely beaten by a group of non-Mormon vigilantes on October 31, 1833. On July 31 and August 6, 1834, he testified to the facts of the beatings. By 1834, Page and his family were expelled from the county along with the other Latter Day Saints, and lived for a time in neighboring [[Clay County, Missouri |Clay County]], before moving to [[Far West, Missouri |Far West]].