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From: "Ronald Colby" <>
Subject: Joseph Smity Jr.
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 98 17:45:11 PST

Thought the following would be of interest to everyone.

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Ronald Colby

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THE ANCESTRY OF THE PROPHET

The Lineal Ancestry of Joseph Smith Jr., Prophet, Seer and Revelator,
and Hyrum Smith, Patriarch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints

ROBERT SMITH immigrated in the year 1638 from England; the exact location is
unknown. He married Mary French and settled in that part of Rowley, in
Essex County, Mass., which afterwards became the township of Boxford. He
was the father of ten children.

SAMUEL, the fifth child and third son of Robert, was born January 26, 1666. He
moved to Topsfield where he became an influential citizen. He married
Rebecca Curtis, daughter of John Curtis. They had nine children. He died
July 12, 1748.

SAMUEL, the third child and oldest son of Samuel was born in Topsfield January
26, 1714. He married Priscilla Gould, daughter of Zaccheus Gould. They
had five children. He was known as Captain Samuel Smith and served his
country during the Revolutionary war. He was also a delegate to the
Provincial Congress in 1774 and again in 1775 and was chairman of the
tea committee in 1773. In 1764-70 and in 1772, '77, '78 and '81, he was
representative to the General Court and served on the Committee of
Safety for a number of years.

ASAEL, the youngest child and second son of Samuel2, was born in Topsfield
March 7, 1744; died October 31, 1830 in Stockholm, N. Y. He had eleven
children and was the father of Joseph Smith the first Presiding
Patriarch of the Church. He served in the American army during the
Revolutionary war. He married Mary Duty.

JOSEPH, third child and second son of Asael, was born in Topsfield, July 12,
1771. He moved to Tunbridge, Vt., in 1791. In 1816, he moved to New York
and settled in Manchester. He was one of the six original members of the
church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, organized April 6, 1830. In
1833, he was called to the office of Presiding Patriarch of the Church.
He married January 24, 1796, Lucy Mack, daughter of Solomon and Lydia
(Gates) Mack. They had ten children, seven sons, three daughters, and
were the parents of the Prophet Joseph and Patriarch Hyrum Smith.

HYRUM, second son of Joseph, Sr., was born February 9, 1800 and was martyred
with his brother Joseph Smith the Prophet at Carthage, Ill., June 27,
1844. He married (first Jerusha Burden and (second) Mary Fielding.

Issue by first marriage: Lovina, b. Sept. 16, 1827; d. Oct. 8, 1876; m.
Lorin Walker. Mary, b. June 27, 1829, d. May 29, 1832. John, b. Sept. 22,
1832, d. Nov. 6, 1911; m. Helen Fisher. Hyrum, b. April 27, 1834; d. Sept. 21,
1841. Jerusha, b. Jan. 13, 1836; m. William Pierce. Sarah, b. Oct. 2, 1837, d.
Nov. 1876; m. Charles E. Griffin.

Issue by second marriage: Joseph Fielding (subject of this sketch), b.
Nov. 13, 1838. Martha Ann, b. May 14, 1841; m. William J. Harris.
Married Catherine Phillips (daughter of Thomas Denner Phillips and
Sarah Godshall) Aug. 1843, Nauvoo, Ill. She was born Aug. 1, 1819,
Philadelphia, Pa.

SMITH, JOSEPH, Jr., (Son of Joseph Smith and Lucy Mack.) Born Dec. 23,
1805, Sharon, Windsor Co., Vermont.

Married Emma Hale Jan. 13, 1827, at South Bainbridge, Chenango Co.,

N.Y. (daughter of Isaac Hale of Harmony, Susquehanna Co., Pa.) Their
children: Joseph; Frederick G. W.; Alexander; Don Carlos; David H. The
last named was born about five months after the assassination of his
father.

Married Helen Mar Kimball (daughter of Heber Chase Kimball and Vilate
Murray). The authority for this statement is on page 339 of the "Life
of Heber C. Kimball," by Orson F. Whitney. This author says, "Seen
after the revelation (see revelation on celestial marriage, written
July 12, 1843, page 1304. * * * Helen Mar, the eldest daughter of
Heber Chase and Vilate Murray Kimball, was given to the Prophet in the
holy bonds of celestial marriage."

In 1905, there was issued from the press of the Deseret News at Salt
Lake City, Utah, a publication entitled "Blood Atonement and the
Origin of Plural Marriage." In the first part of this publication, is
the "Correspondence between Elder Joseph F. Smith, Jr., of the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Richard C. Evans, second
counselor in the Presidency of the 'Reorganized' Church." Following
this correspondence on page 81 under the heading "Introduction of
Celestial and Plural Marriage," are a number of affidavits, among
them, those of Lorenzo Snow, Elizabeth Ann Whitney, Sarah A. Kimball,
Catherine Phillips Smith, Martha McBride Kimball, and Melissa Lott
Willes, setting forth the following marriages of Joseph Smith, Jr.

Married Louisa Beaman, April 5, 1841, at Nauvoo, Ill.

Married Sarah Ann Whitney, July 27, 1842, at Nauvoo, Ill. (daughter of
Newell K. and Elizabeth Ann Whitney).

Married Martha McBride, 1842.

Married Rhoda Richards, June 12, 1843, at Nauvoo, Ill.

Married Almira W. Johnson, 1843 (daughter of Ezekiel Johnson and Julia
Hills).

Married Lucy Walker, May 1, 1843.

Married Melissa Lott, Sept. 20, 1843 (daughter of Cornelius P. Lott).

Married Eliza R. Snow (sister of Lorenzo Snow, fifth president of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints).

Married Eliza Partridge.

Married Emily Partridge.

Married Maria Lawrence.

Married Sarah Lawrence.

The "Life of Heber C. Kimball" by Orson F. Whitney (see page 431 of
that book) is the authority for the following marriages of Joseph
Smith, Jr.

Married Prescinda Huntington

Married Mary Houston.

Married Sylvia P. Sessions.

Married Nancy Maria Smith.

Married Sarah Scott.

On page 81 of "Blood Atonement and the Origin of Plural Marriage," the
following statement is made: "One hundred or more affidavits in
relation to the introduction of celestial and plural marriage are on
file in the Historian's office, Salt Lake City, and are expressions of
eye and ear witnesses, who know that the Prophet Joseph Smith
introduced and taught celestial and plural marriage. Most of these
witnesses are members of the Church, but some of them are not, and
have not been connected with the Church from before the martyrdom of
the Prophet and Patriarch."

JOSEPH SMITH.

Son of Joseph Smith and Lucy Mack (the daughter of Solomon Mack and
Lydia Gates). Born Monday, Dec. 23, 1805, Sharon, Windsor Co.,
Vermont. Prophet and founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints. Martyred with his brother Hyrum Smith at Carthage,
Ill., June 27, 1844.

HYRUM SMITH.

Son of Joseph Smith and Lucy Mack (the daughter of Solomon Mack and
Lydia Gates). Born Feb. 9, 1800. Martyred with his brother Joseph
Smith the Prophet at Carthage, Ill., June 27, 1844. Father of Joseph
Fielding Smith, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints.

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