Lucy Smith also noted that though he never read through the Bible until he was at least eighteen, he was imaginative and could regale the family with "the most amusing recitals" of the life and religion of ancient Native Americans "with as much ease, seemingly, as if he had spent his whole life with them. [9] Alvin SMITH was born February 11, 1798, in Tunbridge, Vermont, and died November 19, 1823, in Manchester Township, New York, at the age of 25. Tours and markers on the site tell about Joseph Smith’s First Vision and his first visits with the angel Moroni. History, 1834–1836. "[84], Because Smith had been unable to gain Isaac Hale's approval, he and Emma Hale Smith eloped to South Bainbridge on January 18, 1827, after which Joseph and Emma went to live with Smith's parents in Manchester, New York.[85]. [29] For instance, Joseph Smith's paternal grandfather, Asael, was a Universalist who opposed evangelical religion. Famouskin.com also includes ancestoral charts showing the family relationships of Joseph Smith to many famous kin. "[48] Still, Smith seems to have been significantly influenced by the interdenominational revival of 1824-25. By 1817, Smith's family had moved to the "burned-over district" of western New York, an area repeatedly swept by religious revivals during the Second Great Awakening. Most early converts probably never heard about the 1820 vision. Soon afterward, they divorced. [26][27][28], Joseph Smith's ancestors had an eclectic variety of religious views and affiliations. She died February 1, 1900, in Fountain Green, Illinois. They had three children. [108] Leaving Emma in the wagon, where she knelt in prayer,[109] he reportedly walked to the site of the golden plates, retrieved them, and hid them in a fallen tree-top on or near the hill. However, Smith's 1832 history (his first written account) dates the visit of, harvtxt error: no target: CITEREFSmith1838 (, As originally taken down in dictation and published, the story stated that the angel was, harv error: no target: CITEREFSmith1838–1840 (, harv error: no target: CITEREFSmith1835 (, Skousen, R. (2010). The exact date of the birth comes into dispute but other contemporary information […] He has 460 known descendants.**. page xi, harvtxt error: no target: CITEREFHowe1833 (, harvtxt error: no target: CITEREFKight1833 (, harvtxt error: no target: CITEREFHarris1853 (, harvtxt error: no target: CITEREFHowe1976 (, harvtxt error: no target: CITEREFSmith1842 (, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Harmony Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, Cunning Folk Traditions and the Latter Day Saint Movement, Joseph Smith and the criminal justice system, "Circumstantial Confirmation Of the first Vision Through Reminiscences", "Awakenings in the Burned-over District: New Light on the Historical Setting of the first Vision", "Archaeological Work at the Smith Log House", "Mormonism—No. Joseph Smith (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader and the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement whose current followers include members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Community of Christ, and other Latter Day Saint denominations. Around 1818 the Joseph Smith Sr. family built and moved into a log house in the woods several miles south of the village of Palmyra, New York. Later, Smith reportedly determined by looking into his seer stone that the "right person" was Emma Hale Smith, his future wife. Orsamus Turner who reported Smith "catching a spark of Methodism on the Vienna road" visited Palmyra only between 1822 and 1828. [citation needed], Years later, one non-Mormon neighbor summed up views of Smith and his family by their Palmyra neighbors by saying, "To tell the truth, there was something about him they could not understand; some way he knew more than they did, and it made them mad. [52] Whether Smith regarded this event as a vision or as an actual visitation by a physical being has been debated, because a missionary tract published for Smith's church in 1840 stated that after Smith saw the light, "his mind was caught away, from the natural objects with which he was surrounded; and he was enwrapped in a heavenly vision".[59]. The early life of Joseph Smith covers his life from his birth to the end of 1827. [110] He also reportedly retrieved the Urim and Thummim, which he showed to his mother the next morning. She married Calvin W. STODDARD on December 2, 1827, in Palmyra, New York. Joseph III died at age 82 on December 10, 1914, and has a large posterity. The term 'Urim and Thummim' was not initially used by Smith and his associates prior to around 1832, instead referring to the device as 'interpreters' or 'spectacles'. [102] When Lucy visited Harris, he had heard about Smith's report to have found golden plates through the grapevine in Palmyra, and was interested in finding out more. [5][6], In 1814 the Smiths moved back across the Connecticut River to Norwich, Vermont, where they suffered three seasons of crop failures, the last the result of the Year Without a Summer. He did say that he spoke about the vision with "one of the Methodist preachers,[64] who was very active in the before-mentioned religious excitement". [50] The first description of this event was not published until 1832,[51] which said the event occurred in 1821;[52] however, most accounts date the event to the year 1820. Joe graduated from Ellsworth High School in 1978. Former reunions have been held in Nauvoo, Illinois; Independence, Missouri; Kirtland, Ohio; and Salt Lake City, Utah. Patriarchal Blessings, 1833–. [94] According to Smith's mother, the angel forbade him to put the plates on the ground until they were under lock and key. Joseph Smith 1845 1907 Kentucky Kentucky Joseph Smith, 1845 - 1907. [126] Convinced, Harris immediately gave Smith $50 (equivalent to $1,100 in 2019), and committed to sponsor the translation of the plates. [100] When he turned around, however, the plates were said to have disappeared into the box, which was then closed. [76] The failed project disbanded on November 17, 1825;[77] however, Smith continued to work for Stowell on other matters until 1826. Once or Twice in a Thousand Years Once or twice in a thousand years—perhaps a dozen times since mortal man became of dust a living soul—an event of such transcendent import occurs that neither heaven nor earth are ever thereafter the same. Joseph Fielding Smith (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1976), 174. After Maryâs death, Samuel married Levira CLARK on April 29, 1841, in Nauvoo, Illinois. The family stood by Joseph. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 2 daughters. [22] Biographer Fawn Brodie wrote, "He was a gregarious, cheerful, imaginative youth, born to leadership, but hampered by meager education and grinding poverty. When the farm failed, Joseph Senior moved the family to Palmyra, New York, hoping to do better. 1831–1866. Smith made annual visits to the hill over the next three years, reporting to his family that he had not yet been allowed to take the plates. When the farm failed, Joseph Senior moved the family to Palmyra, New York, hoping to do better. CHL. Born in Sharon, Vermont, his parents, Joseph and Lucy Smith, operated a farm. He died August 7, 1841, in Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph’s elder brother, Hyrum, attended Moor’s Academy, a prep school for Dartmouth College, from 1811 to 1815. He died on 4 June 1992, in … [65] Many have presumed this to be the Rev. [113] When Emma heard of this, she went to Macedon and informed Smith Jr., who reportedly determined through his Urim and Thummim that the plates were safe, but nevertheless he hurriedly traveled home by horseback. After Carolineâs death, he married Roxie R. GRANT on May 19, 1847, in Knox, Illinois. In Smith's own account dated 1838, he stated that an angel visited him on the night of September 21, 1823. Joseph Smith Jr. was her fifth child, and the gospel he restored was an answer to her prayers. Joseph Smith Jr.âProphet of God, Mighty Servant, Family of Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith: The First Family of the Restoration, A Prophetâs Life: The CradleâSharon, Vermont, The Early Preparation of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Strengthening the Family: Adapting to Circumstances, Family Home Evening Helps: A Buffet of Words, Church Continues to Aid Hurricane Victims, Church Sends Relief in Wake of Earthquake, Hurricane, Measles Initiative Saving African Children, Sister Parkin Pitches In against Measles in Africa, Children in Ghana and Fiji Receive Childrenâs Books, New Temple Presidents Prepare for Assignments, DVD Given in the Spirit of Sharing the Gospel, âFamily of Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith: The First Family of the Restoration,â Ensign, Dec. 2005, 7â9. [40], Smith said he had become concerned about religion "at about the age of twelve years," although later he seems to have wondered whether "a Supreme being did exist. The Joseph Smith family Bible Ken Sanders Rare Books 268 South 200 East, Salt Lake City Between 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday From Monday, August 2 through Thursday, August 5th After his death, she married Joseph YOUNGER in Illinois. "[36] Magical parchments handed down in the Hyrum Smith family may have belonged to Joseph Sr.[37] Lucy Mack Smith noted in her memoirs that while family members were "trying to win the faculty of Abrac, drawing magic circles or sooth saying," they did not neglect manual labor, "but whilst we worked with our hands we endeavored to remember the service of & the welfare of our souls. Among these requirements, according to Chase, was that Smith must approach the site "dressed in black clothes, and riding a black horse with a switch tail, and demand the book in a certain name, and after obtaining it, he must go directly away, and neither lay it down nor look behind him". [7] The extended Smith clan had already moved west to New York, and in 1817, Joseph Smith Sr. traveled alone to Palmyra, New York, followed shortly by the rest of his family—although not before Lucy Smith was forced to settle with some last-minute creditors. [71] Smith usually practiced crystal gazing by putting a stone at the bottom of a white stovepipe hat, putting his face over the hat to block the light, then divining information from the stone. After Elizaâs death, William married Rosella GOYETTE on December 21, 1889, in Clinton, Iowa. See Reviews & Make an Appointment! [citation needed], In 1826 Smith was arrested and brought to court in Bainbridge, New York, on the complaint of Stowell's nephew who accused Smith of being "a disorderly person and an imposter. Born into a poor farming family, he was the fifth child of 11 — nine of whom survived childhood. [95] In yet another account, the angel required Smith to follow a sequence of landmarks until he arrived at the correct location. The Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith Family Reunion is held biennially in various locations around the country. "[45], Nevertheless, at some point after 1822,[46] Smith withdrew from organized religion. Joseph Smith, Sr. Ancestry of Joseph Smith. **, *Katharine SMITH was born July 28, 1813, in Lebanon, New Hampshire. Ancestral pedigree chart of Joseph Smith. "[94] However, according to a Palmyra resident Henry Harris, who said Smith told him he located the plates using his seer stone. They had three children. Sophronia has five known descendants. Joseph’s wife, Emma Smith, chose to stay behind with her family and Lucy Mack Smith, Joseph’s mother. Lane, but there is no record of Lane visiting the Palmyra vicinity in 1820. He has 13,583 known descendants. They had nine children. Meanwhile, during one of Smith's treasure hunting expeditions, he met and fell in love with Emma Smith from Harmony Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, whom he married in 1827. Private possession. She married Arthur MILLIKIN on June 4, 1840, in Nauvoo, Illinois. "[30] Conversely, in 1811 Smith's maternal grandfather, Solomon Mack, self-published a book describing a series of heavenly visions and voices he said had led to his conversion to Christianity at the age of seventy-six. The Smith family was a literate family. Scot Facer Proctor and Maurine Jensen Proctor (1996). There are reports that Smith directed further excavations on Knight's property and at other locations around Colesville. [111] By then, however, some of Smith's treasure-seeking company had heard that Smith was successful in obtaining the plates, and they wanted what they believed was their cut of the profits from what they saw as part of their joint venture. Through modern DNA testing of Smith's relatives, it's likely that the Smith family were of Irish descent originally. Yes, but it was never a very profitable job for him, as he only got fourteen dollars a month for it. When the twins died, the Smiths adopted another set of twins, Julia and Joseph, whose mother had recently died in childbirth; Joseph died of measlesin 1832. They had 11 children. In 1820, the family contracted to pay for a 100-acre (40 ha) farm just outside Palmyra in Manchester Township. Later, Joseph Smith Sr. told Hyrum he had "been out of the way through wine.". Born into a poor farming family, he was the fifth child of 11 — nine of whom survived childhood. Joseph Smith was born in Sharon, Windsor County, Vermont, December 23, 1805. Due to the bad harvests they were one of the families that moved west, in their case to Palmyra in New York. William B. SMITH was born March 13, 1811, in Royalton, Vermont. [86] Concerning the visit, Smith dictated the following: He called me by name, and said unto me that he was a messenger sent from the presence of God to me, and that his name was Moroni;[87] that God had a work for me to do; and that my name should be had for good and evil among all nations, kindreds, and tongues, or that it should be both good and evil spoken of among all people. Ephraim SMITH was born and died March 13, 1810, in Royalton, Vermont. She died December 9, 1882, in Colchester, Illinois. [103] At Lawrence's prompting, Smith reportedly ascertained through his seer stone that there was an additional item together with the plates in the box, which Smith later called the Urim and Thummim. [93] This conforms to an account by Smith's friend Joseph Knight Sr., though he refers to Smith's guide only as "the personage. Isaac Hale, however, disapproved of their relationship and of Smith in general. Lucy has 92 known descendants.**. [106], Just days prior to the day Smith said he was to meet with the angel on September 22, 1827, Smith's treasure-seeking associate, Josiah Stowell, and Joseph Knight Sr. arranged to be in Palmyra for the attempt to retrieve the plates. A number of family members fell ill, and Joseph experienced a common complication whereby typhoid bacteria infected bone, in Smith's case, the shin bone. “The Family: A Proclamation to the World,” Ensign, November 1995, 102. [80] Although Smith's associate Oliver Cowdery later stated that Smith was "honorably acquitted,"[81] the result of the proceeding is unclear, with some claiming he was found guilty, others claiming he was "condemned" but "designedly allowed to escape," and yet others (including the trial note taker) claiming he was "discharged" for lack of evidence. Around this time he, along with other male members of his family, was hired to assist in searching for buried treasure. In 1842, Emma gave birth to a stillborn son. Background: After Much Contemplation, © Al Rounds, may not be copied, Joseph Smith Sr. portrait and family sketches by William Whitaker; Lucy Mack Smith portrait by Lee Greene Richards, Painting by unknown artist, © Community of Christ, may not be copied, Background: Winter at Joseph Smith Sr. Home, © Al Rounds, may not be copied. "[73], In late 1825, Josiah Stowell, a well-to-do farmer from South Bainbridge, Chenango County, New York, who had been searching for a lost Spanish mine near Harmony Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania with another seer, traveled to Manchester to hire Smith "on account of having heard that he possessed certain keys, by which he could discern things invisible to the natural eye. Four witnesses reported that the Smiths used divining rods in the Palmyra area, and sometime between Joseph Smith's eleventh and thirteenth years, he began "following his father's example in using a divining rod. However, Smith stated he was unable to obtain the plates at his first visit. [94] There is no specific record of Smith seeing the angel in 1826, however, after Joseph and Emma were married on January 18, 1827, Smith returned to Manchester, and as he passed by Cumorah, he said he was chastised by the angel for not being "engaged enough in the work of the Lord". [25] Small denominational revivals and camp meetings occurred during the intervals. 1979, 42â44. The volume was something near six inches in thickness, a part of which was sealed. [91], Thus, on September 22, 1823, a day listed in local almanacs as the autumn equinox, Smith said that he went to a prominent hill near his home, and found the location of the artifacts. After the messenger departed, Smith said he had two more encounters with him that night and an additional one the next morning, after which he told his father[90] and soon thereafter the rest of his family, who believed his story, but generally kept it within the family. [65] Tales of visions and theophanies, however, were not unusual at the time, though the clergy of many organized religions often resisted the stories. Joseph Smith, Jr. (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader and the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. "[4] Then during the winter of 1812–1813, typhoid fever struck along the Connecticut Valley, including the area around Lebanon, New Hampshire, where the Smiths had recently moved. **, Joseph SMITH Jr. was born December 23, 1805, in Sharon, Vermont. The family tree for Joseph Smith is still in the early stages of research. All charts include source citations for ancestors in the charts. Obituary for Joseph Mark Smith | Joseph Mark Smith, 60, of Red Wing, formerly of Ellsworth, passed away Sunday, August 9, 2020. [58], The exact details of the First Vision vary somewhat depending upon who is recounting the story and when. Intending to translate the plates himself, Smith moved to Harmony Township to live with his in-laws. Joseph Smith was born on month day 1845, at birth place, Kentucky, to Jesse, James Smith and Susannah Smith. Dr. Joseph Smith, Family Medicine in Springfield, OH. As news of the plates spread, Smith's former treasure hunting associates sought to share in the proceeds, ransacking places they thought the plates were hidden. Hyrum SMITH was born February 9, 1800, in Tunbridge, Vermont. He married Jerusha BARDEN on November 2, 1826, in Manchester Township, New York. [94] According to Smith's associate Willard Chase, Smith originally thought this person was to be Samuel Tyler Lawrence, a "seer" himself who worked in Smith's treasure-seeking company in Palmyra,[102] and therefore Smith reportedly took Lawrence to the hill in 1825. Descendants identified as of February 12, 2005. George Lane, a "great revival preacher". [94] However, Alvin died within a few months, and when Smith returned to the hill in 1824, he did not return with the plates. [55] William also suggested that much of the "religious excitement" in the area was caused by the Rev. They had six children. Nevertheless, in 1829, the Smiths and five of their children moved back into the log house, with Hyrum Smith and his wife. No children. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name, and said, pointing to the other, 'This is my Beloved Son. Sometimes called the third martyr, Samuel died July 30, 1844, in Nauvoo, Illinois, of injuries sustained while riding from Nauvoo to Carthage to aid his brothers. [119], Joseph Smith's intention was to keep the box reportedly containing the golden plates safe from his Palmyra neighbors while he dictated a translation of the book's reputed contents, which he would then publish. [47] According to his mother, Smith claimed, "I can take my Bible, and go into the woods, and learn more in two hours, than you can learn at meeting in two years, if you should go all the time. Smith family members held divergent views about organized religion, believed in visions and prophecies, and engaged in certain folk religious practices typical of the era. When Joseph A. Smith was born on 8 July 1914, his father, Clayton Trask Smith, was 36 and his mother, Judith Anne Cunningham, was 33. âI Have a Question,â Ensign, Mar. [72] Smith and his father achieved "something of a mysterious local reputation in the profession—mysterious because there is no record that they ever found anything despite the readiness of some local residents to pay for their efforts. The bulk of Smith's persecution seems to have arisen among laity, and not because of his First Vision, but because of his later assertion to have discovered the golden plates in a hill near his home;[citation needed] the statement was widely publicized and ridiculed in local newspapers beginning around 1827. He said there was a book deposited, written upon gold plates, giving an account of the former inhabitants of this continent, and the source from whence they sprang. JS Family Bible / Joseph Smith Family Bible, ca. New Haven: Yale University Press. Family of Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith: The First Family of the Restoration Joseph SMITH Sr. was born July 12, 1771, in Topsfield, Massachusetts. [121], Harris had apparently been a close confidant of the Smith family since at least 1826,[122] and he may have heard about Smith's attempts to obtain the plates from the angel even earlier from Smith Sr.[123] He was also a believer in Smith's powers with his seer stone. 2020-12-28. [33] Lucy's account, recorded thirty years after the period in which the visions are said to have occurred, suggests "a tendency to make her husband the predecessor of her son" by echoing passages in the Book of Mormon. The 200 th First Vision Anniversary needs to be celebrated by the Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith Family. After Calvinâs death, Sophronia married William *McCLEARY on February 11, 1838, in Kirtland, Ohio. When Smith was fourteen, he was apparently shot at while returning home from an errand, but was not injured. [105] He was reportedly told that the next annual meeting was his last chance to get the plates and the Urim and Thummim. The bullet missed him, hitting a cow instead, and the perpetrator was not found. [124] Thus, at Lucy Smith's request, Harris went to the Smith home, heard the story from Smith, and hefted a glass box that Smith said contained the plates. 4.0 out of 5 stars The Remarkable Family of Joseph Smith, Jr. He has 1,112 known descendants. Don Carlos has six known descendants. [10] [1][2], The Smiths were a middling farm family, but suffered a fateful loss when Smith Sr., after speculating in ginseng and being cheated by a business associate, was financially ruined. [106] Late that night, Smith took the horse and carriage of Joseph Knight Sr. to Cumorah with his wife Emma. "[74], Smith agreed to take the job of assisting Stowell and Hale, and he and his father worked with the Stowell-Hale team for approximately one month, attempting, according to their contract, to locate "a valuable mine of either Gold or Silver and also...coined money and bars or ingots of Gold or Silver". William died on November 13, 1893, in Osterdock, Iowa. Smith was born in Sharon, Vermont, the fifth of eleven children born to Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith. [128] Thus, in early October 1827, they moved to Harmony, with the glass box reportedly holding the plates hidden during the trip in a barrel of beans. [11] The Smith family first built a log home,[12] then in 1822, under the supervision of Joseph Smith's oldest brother Alvin, they began building a larger frame house. "[24] Major multi-denominational religious revivals occurred in the Palmyra area in both 1816-17 (when the Smiths were in the process of migrating from Vermont) and in 1824-25. [16], Joseph Smith had little formal schooling, but may have attended school briefly in Palmyra and received instruction in his home. Smith's first account in 1832 dated the vision to 1821 and stated that he saw "a piller [sic] of fire light above the brightness of the sun at noon day", and that "the Lord opened the heavens upon me and I saw the Lord and he spake unto me saying Joseph my son thy sins are forgiven thee". [13] Alvin died in November 1823, possibly as a result of being given calomel for "bilious fever", and the house remained uncompleted for a year. [99], When Smith arrived at the place where the plates were supposed to be, he reportedly took the plates from the stone box they were in and set them down on the ground nearby, looking to see if there were other items in the box that would "be of some pecuniary advantage to him". [128], Alvin Smith's death remains mysterious. house and angrily bade him read that until he believed it. "[39] Thus, Smith was reared in a family that believed in prophecy and visions, was skeptical of organized religion, and was interested in both folk magic and new religious ideas. Smith was born in Sharon, Vermont, the fifth of eleven children born to Joseph and Lucy Mack Smith. [61] According to Smith, he told his mother at the time that he had "learned for [him]self that Presbyterianism is not true";[62] however, mention of this conversation is omitted from Lucy's own history,[63] and Joseph never stated that he described the details of the vision to his family in 1820 or soon thereafter. [94] When Smith attempted to get the plates back out of the box, the angel hurled him back to the ground with a violent force (id.). [43] One of Smith's acquaintances said that Smith had caught "a spark of Methodism" at camp meetings "away down in the woods, on the Vienna road. [104] However, Lawrence was apparently not the "right person", because Smith did not obtain the plates in his 1825 visit. "[78] Court records show that Smith, identified as "The Glass Looker," stood before the court on March 20, 1826, on a warrant for an unspecified misdemeanor charge,[79] and that the judge issued a mittimus for Smith to be held, either during or after the proceedings. [112] Later, he said he took the plates out of the chest, left the empty chest under the floor boards, and hid the plates in a barrel of flax, not long before the location of the empty box was discovered and the place ransacked by Smith's former treasure-seeking associates, who had enlisted one of the men's sisters to find that location by looking in her seer stone. Named after Joseph’s close friend and first counselor in the First Presidency, Frederick G. Williams, the second surviving son of the Joseph Smith Jr. family was born in … [75] Smith boarded with an Isaac Hale (a relative of William Hale), and fell in love with Isaac Hale's daughter Emma, a schoolteacher he would later marry in 1827. 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