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• FamilySearch ID: KWJR-TC1
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 6289909

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From FindaGrave:

First Presiding Patriarch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and father of the Prophet Joseph Smith.

He was the first person who received his son Joseph's testimony after he had seen the angel, and exhorted him to be faithful and diligent to the message he had received. He later saw the Golden Plates and became one of the eight witnesses to the Book of Mormon. He was baptized April 6, 1830. In August, 1830, in company with his son Don Carlos, he took a mission to St. Lawrence county, New York, touching on his route at several of the Canadian ports, where he distributed a few copies of the Book of Mormon, visited his father, brothers and sisters residing in St. Lawrence county, bore testimony to the truth, which resulted eventually in all the family coming into the Church, excepting his brother Jesse and sister Susan.

He removed with his family to Kirtland in 1831, where he was ordained to the High Priesthood and was chosen a member of the first High Council.

After his sons, Hyrum and Joseph, were thrown into the Missouri jails by the mob, he fled from under the exterminating order of Governor Lilburn W. Boggs, and made his escape in midwinter to Quincy, Ill., from whence he removed to Commerce in the spring of 1839, and thus became one of the founders of Nauvoo. The exposures he suffered brought on consumption, of which he soon passed away.

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https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KWJR-TC1

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6289909

Joseph married Lucy Mack on 24 Jan 1796 in Tunbridge, Orange County, Vermont. Lucy (daughter of Solomon Mack and Lydia Gates) was born on 8 Jul 1775 in Gilsum, Cheshire County, New Hampshire; died on 14 May 1856 in Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois; was buried after 14 May 1856 in Smith Family Cemetery, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: KWJY-BPD
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 962
• Group: Descendant of Mayflower Passenger
• Group: Famous Historical Figure
• Group: Mayflower - Edward Fuller
• Group: Mayflower - John Howland & Elizabeth Tilley
• Group: Mayflower - John Tilley & Joan Hurst
• Group: Mayflower - Samuel Fuller II

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Religious Leader.

He was the founder and First President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (also known as the Mormons).

Born in South Royalton, Vermont, his parents, Joseph and Lucy Smith, operated a farm. When the farm failed, Joseph Senior moved the family to Palmyra, New York, hoping to do better. Near poverty nearly all their lives, the children had to work early to support the family, and as a result, their education suffered. At the age of 14, Joseph announced that he had seen a vision of God and Jesus Christ. Some years later, Joseph unearthed golden plates on a local hillside, and these plates would later be translated as the Book of Mormon. After printing and distributing copies of the Book of Mormon in the Upstate New York region, Smith gathered a small core of followers and founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Fayette, New York on April 6, 1830. Smith, his wife Emma, and several followers moved to Kirtland, Ohio, Far West, Missouri, and finally Nauvoo, Illinois to avoid religious persecution. After destroying a newspaper operation that printed negative material about him and his church, Joseph was arrested for "suppression of freedom of the press" and imprisoned at the Carthage Jail. On June 27, 1844, a mob of 200 men stormed the jail and murdered Joseph and his brother Hyrum. The brothers were buried together at their family homesite in Nauvoo, Illinois. Brigham Young became the next President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Bio by: Anonymous

FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KWJY-BPD

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
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Group:
Passenger or Descendant of the Mayflower

Group:
Famous People

Group:
Descendant of Edward Fuller and wife of the Mayflower

Group:
Descendant of John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley of the Mayflower

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Descendant of John Tilley and Joan (Hurst) Rogers of the Mayflower

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Descendant of Samuel Fuller, son of Edward Fuller, of the Mayflower

Joseph married Emma Hale on 18 Jan 1827 in South Bainbridge, Chenango County, New York. Emma (daughter of Isaac Hale and Elizabeth Lewis) was born on 10 Jul 1804 in Harmony Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania; died on 30 Apr 1879 in Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois; was buried after 30 Apr 1879 in Smith Family Cemetery, Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]