"The Whitmer Lot. In this section of the cemetery are the graves of Peter Whitmer in whose home, in Fayette, Seneca County, New York, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized, April 6, 1830. His wife Nancy Musselman Whitmer, his son Jacob Whitmer (one of the eight witnesses of the Book of Mormon), two daughters of Jacob Whitmer and other relatives. They were all residents of Richmond."