Because of the Saints book, a lot of people in the Church are focusing on the question of the Hill Cumorah.
Elizabeth Kane and her husband, General Thomas Kane, were not members of the Church, but they were very friendly to Brigham Young. Gen. Kane helped negotiate peace in the Utah War.
The Kanes were invited to St. George for a couple of months in 1872. Elizabeth wrote a memoir of her time in St. George, Utah, from 1872-3 that included a conversation with Brigham Young and others about the Hill Cumorah.
In this account, she relates how Brigham Young told her that when Joseph and Oliver entered the repository the third time, their eyes adjusted to the dim light so they could see all the artifacts.
You can read the typed manuscript here.
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/details?id=328034
Key passages are found on pages 74-5.
It’s also interesting that when she asked where Cumorah was, she was told “in Manchester Township, Ontario County, New York.”
Source: Letter VII
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Thanks again for your timely research. I am sure there are hundreds, even thousands of ‘not so hidden’, great and HUM! — mystical findings of great testimony value such as this. Findings that will, seemingly unnoticed, as if by accident be uncovered, until all can see that Joseph Smith, truly was and still is a prophet of God. Father knows how long to keep His treasures hidden from evil men and women and who to send to find them.
Thank you as I know that you are among those He sends. Safely hidden long enough and in His time, cause a Holy awakening of the Book of Mormon history, all the way from Jerusalem and forward — this land is not through opening to our view the sacred history of and the effect of the discoveries yet to be found.
You are in the Lord’s hands and our prayers that you will have the guidance to help in this His work.
Carole A
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