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Mormon prophet.[1]
Joseph Smith, Jr. was born on December 23, 1805, in Sharon, Vermont, to Lucy Mack Smith and her husband Joseph Smith, a merchant and farmer.
Joseph Smith Junior's father, Joseph Smith, Sr., was born on July 12, 1771 in Topsfield, Massachusetts to Asael Smith and Mary Duty. He married Lucy Mack in Tunbridge, Vermont on January 26, 1796, and had eleven children with her.
While boarding at the Hale house in Harmony, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, Joseph Smith Jr. met Emma Hale and began courting her. When Smith asked for Emma's hand, her father, Isaac Hale, objected because Smith was "a stranger" and had no means of supporting his daughter other than money digging. On January 18, 1827, Smith and Emma "eloped to marry" and the couple began boarding with Smith's parents in Manchester.
Smith wed Emma Hale in January 1827. She gave birth to nine children, five of whom died before the age of two. The first three children (a boy Alvin in 1828 and twins Thaddeus and Louisa on April 30, 1831) died shortly after birth. When the twins died, the Smiths adopted twins, Julia and Joseph, whose mother had recently died in childbirth. (Joseph died of measles in 1832.) Joseph and Emma Smith had four sons who lived to maturity: Joseph Smith III (November 6, 1832), Frederick Granger Williams Smith (June 29, 1836), Alexander Hale Smith (June 2, 1838), and David Hyrum Smith (November 17, 1844, born after Joseph's death). As of 2011[update], DNA testing had provided no evidence that Smith had fathered any children by women other than Emma.
After Smith's death, Emma Smith quickly became alienated from Brigham Young and the church leadership. Young, whom Emma feared and despised, was suspicious of her desire to preserve the family's assets from inclusion with those of the church, and thought she would be even more troublesome because she openly opposed plural marriage. When most Latter Day Saints moved west, she stayed in Nauvoo, married a non-Mormon, Major Lewis C. Bidamon, and withdrew from religion until 1860, when she affiliated with what became the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (now the Community of Christ), first headed by her son, Joseph Smith III. Emma never denied Joseph Smith's prophetic gift or repudiated her belief in the authenticity of the Book of Mormon.
In April 1841, Joseph Smith Jr. wed Louisa Beaman, and during the next two-and-a-half years he may have married or been sealed to 30 additional women, ten of them already married to other men, though this was generally done with the knowledge and consent of their husbands. Ten of Smith's wives were under the age of twenty, while others were widows over fifty. The practice of plural marriage was kept secret.[2]
Joseph Smith, Jr. (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader and founder of Mormonism. He was born on December 23, 1805, in Sharon, Vermont to Lucy Mack Smith and her husband Joseph, a merchant and farmer. In 1820 he had received a vision from God the Father and the Son that resolved his religious confusion. While praying in a wooded area near his home, he said that God, in a vision, had told him his sins were forgiven and that all contemporary churches had "turned aside from the gospel."
Smith said that in 1823 while praying one night for forgiveness from his sins, he was visited by an angel named Moroni, who revealed the location of a buried book made of golden plates.
Image:Smith-72765-2.jpg Later in 1827 he retrieved the previously mentioned golden plates and put them in a locked chest. He said the angel commanded him not to show the plates to anyone else but to publish their translation, reputed to be the religious record of indigenous Americans. In February 1828, Martin Harris arrived to assist Smith by transcribing his dictation. Although Smith had previously refused to show the plates to anyone, he told Martin Harris, Oliver Cowdery, and David Whitmer that they would be allowed to see them. According to Smith, the angel Moroni took back the plates once Smith finished using them.
The translated plates became the Book of Mormon. The Book of Mormon brought Smith regional notoriety and opposition from those who remembered his money-digging and the 1826 Chenango County trial.
Throughout his life Smith had been sharply criticized by newspaper editors, and after his death newspapers were almost unanimous in portraying Smith as a religious fanatic, ignoring his mark on history. Conversely, within Mormonism, Smith was memorialized first and foremost as a prophet, martyred to seal the testimony of his faith. Smith attracted thousands of devoted followers before his death in 1844 and millions in the century that followed. Among Mormons, he is regarded as a prophet on par with Moses and Elijah.
Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum Smith were killed by a mob in Carthage, Illinois, on June 27, 1844. The brothers had been in jail awaiting trial when an armed mob of about 200 men stormed the facility, their faces painted black with wet gunpowder. Hyrum was killed first, having been shot in the face. As he fell, Hyrum shouted, "I'm a dead man, Joseph!" After emptying the pistol with which he tried to defend himself, Joseph was then shot several times while trying to escape from a second-story window and fell from that window as he died.
Descendant of Robert Smith (c1625-1693 MA) m Mary French, group NE53 on SmithConnections Northeastern DNA Project.[6]
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AncestryDNA, Ancestry member SP
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Mary (Holden) Morgan :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #AM36179
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edited by Leigh Anne (Johnson) Dear
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Has been in the profile since 2015.
edited by Curt Danforth III
I have an ancestor who was not a Mormon, but who contemporaneously with Joseph Smith Jr. had children by his wife and also had children with his live-in school teacher at the same time (and the school teacher later became his wife). It is just a record of a fact.
What would be the reason for not connecting all of Joseph Smith Jr. wives to his profile? Is it inconvenient for some reason?
The project needs to come up with some guidelines for what exactly counts as a polygamous wife on WikiTree. The current guideline for attaching two people as spouses is that the people considered themselves married.
Just because there is evidence of a sealing, doesn't mean that either of the people involved in the sealing considered themselves spouses in this lifetime. I'm leaning toward there needing to be some sort of statement from the supposed wife saying that she was Joseph Smith's wife (since I don't believe Joseph ever admitted to having any other spouses), or evidence they lived together as man and wife. I'm not sure we should count the statements from third parties saying "oh yeah, I heard from Bob that Sally got sealed to Joseph", although those should be mentioned in the biography. And we definitely shouldn't count sealings that happened after Joseph Smith was deceased.
The question of who does and does not count as a wife of Joseph Smith is especially complicated and contentious, and there was a great deal of secrecy during this period that makes it extremely difficult to find records of women directly stating that they were married to Joseph Smith, especially if they died before or not long after Joseph's death. There are a handful of great books by historians who have done a lot of research and lay out their specific methodology for determining who "counts" as a wife of Joseph Smith. One easy option for setting a standard when it comes for the wives of Joseph Smith would be to stick to a list compiled by one historian whose methodology we agree with (allowing for possible additions in the case that new primary sources come out to strongly support a marriage during Joseph's lifetime). I want to put in plug for the list of wives in Todd Compton's In Sacred Loneliness, as his research was very rigorous and I think his methodology aligns well with Wikitree standards.
Again, I'd love to work more on this! Feel free to email me to discuss more (also happy to keep this in the comments).
edited by Tuli Bennett-Bose