Mormon History, Sunday, July 20th, 1845

[Apostle John Taylor diary] At meeting in forenoon Elder Orson Pratt spoke; after which Elder Young made some remarks. I made some remarks on the impropriety of the Hodges the murderers, being in our grave yard, there being a great deal of dissatisfaction expressed by the people in general.
Bro. Wm. Smith arose and said we ought to show mercy to them after they were dead; from what he had heard of the evidence, it was not sufficient to hang them, and he thought they might be innocent.
Elder Young said he knew them to be murderers and not innocent men; and he would not want them buried in his lot; he said he would sooner buy a piece of ground remotely situated for that purpose.
I called a vote to know whether they should be moved, or not. It was carried that they should be moved. In afternoon at Quorum meeting.

[source: 'The John Taylor Nauvoo journal, January 1845-September 1845,' BYU Studies 23:3 (1983) edited by Dean C. Jessee]