[Reminiscence, 24 November 1928, published in Cardon & Bennion 1930, pp. 303, 305; reprinted in Vogel, Early Mormon Documents 5:143-144.]
... It was my privilege to hear from the lips of David Whitmer himself in 1885 the solemn and unqualified declaration that he did see the Angel of God, when he presented to the Three Witnesses the plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated, and heard him say that they had been translated correctly. In his testimony to me about three years before his death, he also said in all solemnity that though he was alienated from him, because he had fallen, nevertheless Joseph Smith was a Prophet of God, and did receive revelations from heaven. He was an old man, respected by his neighbors, well preserved, and intelligent. I [was] a boy, leaving college, just entering upon life's activities, reverently and pathetically appealing for the truth, as he, in his eighties, with hair perfectly white, was contemplating the end of his [p. 303] ... [p. 304] earthly career. To have been insincere seems impossible, would have made him a hideous, soulless mental deformity. ...