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Date: May 10, 2019 02:01AM
According to BY, Moroni did get to Manti. Note that BY was accompanied by Warren Snow, the Castratin' Bishop.
Orson F. Whitney, "Life of Heber C. Kimball," p. 436:
"Early on the morning of April 25th, 1877, President Brigham Young asked Brother Warren S. Snow to go with him to the Temple hill. Brother Snow says: 'We two were alone: President Young took me to the spot where the Temple was to stand; we went to the southeast corner, and President Young said: "Here is the spot where the prophet Moroni stood and dedicated this piece of land for a Temple site, and that is the reason why the location is made here, and we can't move it from this spot; and if you and I are the only persons that come here at high noon today, we will dedicate this ground."'"
Also check out
https://rsc.byu.edu/archived/book-mormon-fourth-nephi-through-moroni-zion-destruction/18-moroni-last-nephite-prophetsfor a purported map of Moroni's wanderings (including Kinderhook, IL, I guess to drop off some plates?) and The Death of Moroni. (Spoiler alert: Kind of his attackers to have at him one by one rather than all at once.)