Other Events:

• 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
• FamilySearch ID: KWJY-BPD
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 962

Notes:

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

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

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

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

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

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/962

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]