High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Zelph is a minor figure in Mormon history. In May and June 1834 Joseph Smith led a Mormon group (a paramilitary expedition known as Zion`s Camp) on a march from Kirtland, Ohio to Jackson County, Missouri. On June 3, while passing through southern Illinois near Griggsville, some bones were discovered buried in a mound. These bones were supposedly identified by Smith as belonging to a Lamanite prophet-warrior named Zelph. The mound in question is now known as Naples Mound 8.