Hiram Page is a familiar figure to students of Latter Day Saint history. Despite his prominence in the early movement founded by Joseph Smith, Jr. in 1830, Page separated from the church in 1838, settled on a farm near Excelsior Springs, Missouri, and lived there in relative obscurity until his death in 1852. The location of his grave was essentially lost.
        Present-day owners of Page's farm knew Page was buried in an unmarked grave on their property, but knew little of his significance to Mormon history, until recently. In June 2000, Frank and Kathy Hamer began searching for information about Page. They came across a letter Bill Curtis had written in the 1970s while doing Page/Whitmer family research. The Hamers found the Curtises' phone number and gave Bill a call. Bill and Annette went to Excelsior Springs to meet Frank and Kathy and hear their story. The Curtises also told them about Missouri Mormon Frontier Foundation, a non-sectarian local history group in western Missouri, devoted to the rediscovery and preservation of Missouri's Mormon period. Cooperative efforts growing from this initial contact have culminated in plans to erect an interpretive marker at the gravesite.
        MMFF is pleased to announce this marker will be unveiled during a commemoration scheduled Saturday, 27 April 2002, at the newly rediscovered Hiram Page gravesite, near Excelsior Springs, Missouri. Dr. Richard L. Anderson, Brigham Young University, will be our speaker. Planners hope to locate and involve family descendants and representatives of various local Restoration Movement church groups historically connected to the early "Mormon" Church. The public, as well as students and scholars of Mormon History, who are interested in the event are invited to attend.