Editing Jackson County, Missouri (section)

===Latter Day Saints===
{{See also| Expulsion of Mormons from Jackson County, Missouri}}
[[File:Independence - RLDS Temple 02.jpg|upright|thumb|[[Independence temple|Community of Christ Temple]] in Independence, Missouri, USA. Dedicated 1994]]
Jackson County figures prominently in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, also known as Mormons. The Church was formed in Palmyra, [[New York (state)|New York]], in 1830, located in Western New York, north of the Finger Lakes Region. March 1831 President [[Joseph Smith]] said that a location on the Missouri–Kansas border was to be the [[Eschatology|latter-day]] "[[Zion (Latter Day Saints)|New Jerusalem]]"<ref>{{cite book |first= Joseph Fielding |last= Smith |author-link= Joseph Fielding Smith |editor-first= Bruce R. |editor-last= McConkie |editor-link= Bruce R. McConkie |title= Doctrines of Salvation: Sermons and Writings of Joseph Fielding Smith |place= Salt Lake City |publisher= [[Bookcraft]] |volume= 3 |page= 74 |year= 1956 |lccn= 56034495 |oclc= 3188957 }}</ref> with the "center place" located in Independence, the [[county seat]].<ref>[[Doctrine and Covenants]] {{lds||dc|57|1|5}}</ref> Traveling to the area in the summer of 1831, Smith and some associates formally proclaimed Jackson County as the site in a ceremony in August 1831.<ref name = hmm>[[H. Michael Marquardt]], [http://www.xmission.com/~research/about/temple.htm "The Independence Temple of Zion"], 1997. Retrieved March 28, 2008.</ref>

Leadership and members of the Church began moving to Jackson County soon after but open conflict with earlier settlers ensued, driven by religious and cultural differences. Many early settlers along the Missouri River had come from the upper South: Kentucky and Tennessee, for instance, and brought their slaves and [[pro-slavery]] customs with them. They believed that the "[[Yankee]]" Mormons, from New York and northern states, were [[Abolitionism in the United States|abolitionists]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.blacklds.org/mob |title= The Manifesto of the Mob |work= Blacklds.org |access-date=July 10, 2013}}</ref> Mobs in the public and private sector used force to drive individual Saints from Jackson to nearby counties within Missouri and put Latter Day Saints on notice that they had until November 6, 1833, to leave the county ''en masse''. On November 23, 1833, the few remaining LDS residents were [[Expulsion of Mormons from Jackson County, Missouri|ordered to leave Jackson County]]. By mid-1839, following the [[Mormon War (1838)|Missouri Mormon War]], the Mormons were driven from the state altogether. They did not return to Jackson County or Missouri in significant numbers until 1867, two years after the end of the Civil War.