- Joseph Smith promised Porter that if he never cut his hair his enemies would never harm him and that prophecy was fulfilled.
- Porter Rockwell served as Joseph Smith’s and Brigham Young’s bodyguard and was one of the first converts to the LDS Church.
- Porter Rockwell was ordained a seventy of the Church, a position he held throughout his life.
- Porter Rockwell was accused and jailed (later acquitted) for the attempted assassination of Missouri Lt. Gov. Boggs. Boggs issued the infamous “extermination order” to the Mormons. (Joseph Smith said he knew Porter didn’t shoot Boggs because Porter wouldn’t have missed.)
- At Porter Rockwell’s funeral, Apostle and future Church President Joseph F. Smith spoke and said the following about Porter –“They say he was a murderer; if he was he was the friend of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, and he was faithful to them, and to his covenants, and he has gone to Heaven and apostates can go to Hell… Porter Rockwell was yesterday afternoon ushered into Heaven clothed with immortality and eternal life, and crowned with all glory which belongs to a departed saint. He has his little faults but Porter’s life on earth, taken altogether, was one worthy of example, and reflected honor upon the church. Through all his trials he had never once forgotten his obligations to his brethren and his God."
Here's also a song about him as well:
Scott's other brother David and his wife Kristene drove up for a surprise visit for the weekend, so everybody gathered together and we went to eat there. It is a western style restaurant with the serving portions being large, but good. They have these fun specialty drinks also that was fun to try. One that we tried was a mixture of Ironport, cherry and milk. It was actually pretty delicious and much better than the drink that I thought would taste like pina colada, but didn't.
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| This is the lame pina colada drink. Scott was nice enough to trade drinks with me. |
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