by Megan Finley | Feb 1, 2017 | Joseph Smith's Family, Past Leader Bios
The following article by Scot and Maurine Proctor first appeared on LDSMag.com on February 1, 2017. In this article, published yesterday, we talked about how Lucy’s Preliminary Notes were extensively edited before they became the book we have had for years in the...
by Guest Author | Oct 19, 2015 | Joseph Smith's Family
This article was written by Jannalee Rosner and published by LDS Living.com. Of the many hardships Joseph Smith Jr. and his wife Emma endured, the one that was perhaps the most difficult, especially for Emma, was losing so many of her precious babies. Only 5 of her 11...
by Keith L. Brown | Mar 12, 2015 | Joseph Smith's Family
There are many phenomena which seem to defy reasonable explanation. Such is the case, for example, of the year 1816 which is known in history as the “Year without a summer” because of severe climate abnormalities that caused average global temperatures to decrease by...
by Keith L. Brown | Feb 26, 2015 | Joseph Smith's Family
Joseph Smith, Jr. was born on 23 December 1805 in Sharon, Vermont, to Joseph Smith, Sr. (1771-1848) and Lucy Mack Smith (1775-1856). He had ten siblings, including an unnamed brother who died at birth in 1797, and was the fifth oldest. Of those siblings, five of his...
by | Apr 15, 2009 | Joseph Smith's Family
Joseph Smith’s father, Joseph Smith Sr., was a man of deep honor and pride. More than once in his life he was taken advantage of, but he always managed to cover his debts, whatever the personal cost. Early in Joseph Smith Sr.’s marriage to Lucy Mack Smith,...
by | Mar 20, 2009 | Joseph Smith's Family
In 1811, the Smith family moved to West Lebanon, New Hampshire. At this time Lucy Mack Smith, Joseph Smith’s mother, remarked that they settled and “began to contemplate, with joy and satisfaction, the prosperity which had attended our recent exertions;...
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