The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day saints ( The Rlds Church) emerged during the 1850s from the Conflict and Schism that arose in Mormonism after the June 27, 1844, Murder of Joseph Smith Jr., it founding prophet. From 1834 to 1844. Smith had indicated as many as eight possible modes of prophetic successions. one of these was a designation of his son Joseph Smith III ( 1832 - 1914) to succeed him as Prophet president. He had not how ever chosen any one to lead Pro temp-ore until his son should be old enough to preside. During the decade following Smith"s Assassination, Mormonism split into more than a dozen faction. On April 06; 1860, Joseph Smith the III became Prophet president of Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day saints at the conference of the reorganized church at Am-boy Illinois. For early Re-organizers', the long-held conviction of Lineal Succession in Presidency was now enacted. www.theremnantchurch.com/index.php