by Terrie Lynn Bittner | May 3, 2013 | Joseph Smith
Emma Smith was the wife of the first Mormon prophet, Joseph Smith. Throughout the years, she has remained a complex topic for both Mormons and non-Mormons. Many people have focused almost entirely on the decisions she made in the last years of Joseph Smith’s life and...
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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