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Joseph Smith Jr.


Birth23 December 1805Sharon, Windsor, Vermont, United States
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     Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Sealings and adoptions of the living, 1846-1857; index, 1846-1857 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1958), p. 503-504, 505-506, 511-512, FHL microfilm 183374.

    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Joseph Smith Papers (Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah: The Church Historian's Press), database and images, JosephSmithpapers.org, entry for Joseph Smith (23 December 1805); citing History, 1832-1836, p. 9..

    Lucy Mack Smith, History of the Prophet Joseph Smith by his mother Lucy Mack Smith (Salt Lake City, Utah: Improvement Era, 1902), p. 37.
Death27 June 1844Carthage, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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     The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Times and Seasons (Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, November 1839-February 15, 1846), Truth Will Prevail, 1 July 1844, p. 560, vol. V, No. 12.
Burial29 June 1844Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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     Find A Grave, database and images, Memorial #962.
FatherJoseph Smith Sr.
MotherLucy Mack
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   • Emma Hale
Married18 January 1827Bainbridge, Chenango, New York, United States
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    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Joseph Smith Papers (Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah: The Church Historian's Press), database and images, JosephSmithPapers.org, entry for Joseph Smith and Emma Hale (18 January 1827); citing History, 1834-1836, p. 9..
          Children:
               Alvin Smith
               Thadeus Smith
               Louisa Smith
               Joseph Smith III
               Frederick Granger William Smith
               Alexander Hale Smith
               Don Carlos Smith
                Smith
               David Hyrum Smith
               Alice Fredericka Smith


   • Francis Ward Alger
Married1835Kirtland, Geauga, Ohio, United States
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Francis Ward Alger, ID L8Q9-HX8.

   • Prescendia Lathrop Huntington
Married11 December 1841Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Lisle G. Brown, Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and Anointings (Salt Lake City, Utah: The Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2006), p. 171.

    Joseph F. Smith, Affidavits about Celestial Marriage, 1869-1915, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, 1 May 1869, 1:19, 4:19.

   • Zina Diantha Huntington
Married27 October 1841Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Joseph F. Smith, Affidavits about Celestial Marriage, 1869-1915, MS 3423_b0001_f0044_00009.

   • Louisa Beman
Married5 April 1841Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Joseph F. Smith, Affidavits about Celestial Marriage, 1869-1915, MS 3423_b0001_f0044_00007.

   • Lucy Walker
Married1 May 1842Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah, United States: Digitized by: University of Utah, 1877), 1 October 1910, p. 1, column 3-4, Nauvoo Veteran Woman at Rest..

   • Jane Tibbits
Married1842Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Lyndon W Cook, Nauvoo Marriages, Proxy Sealings, 1843-1846 (Provo, UT: Grandin Book Coo., 2004), p. 82.

    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Sealings and adoptions of the living, 1846-1857; index, 1846-1857 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1958), p. 503-504.

   • Aphia Sanborn
Married1842Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Brian C. Hales, Joseph Smith's Polygamy (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2013), p. 276, 278; entry for Aphia Sanborn and Joseph Smith ( 1842/1843).

    Lyndon W Cook, Nauvoo Marriages, Proxy Sealings, 1843-1846 (Provo, UT: Grandin Book Coo., 2004), p. 139.

    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Sealings and adoptions of the living, 1846-1857; index, 1846-1857 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1958), p. 511-512.

   • Desdemona Wadsworth Fullmer
Married26 January 1842Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Lisle G. Brown, Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and Anointings (Salt Lake City, Utah: The Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2006), p. 283.

    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Sealings and adoptions of the living, 1846-1857; index, 1846-1857 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1958), pg. 505.

   • Sarah Ann Whitney
Married27 July 1842Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Joseph F. Smith, Affidavits about Celestial Marriage, 1869-1915, Sarah Ann Whitney Kimball, Affidavit, Salt Lake County, Utah Territory, 19 June 1869, 1:36, 4:36.

   • Eliza Roxey Snow
Married29 June 1842Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Gary James Bergara, "Identifying the Earliest Mormon Polygamists, 1841-1844" (Stanford, California: Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 2005), p. 66.

    Joseph F. Smith, Affidavits about Celestial Marriage, 1869-1915, Book 1, p. 25.

   • Sarah Marietta Kingsley
Married29 June 1842Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Devery Scott Anderson, The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845-1846: A Documentary History (Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, 2005), p. 417.

    Brian C. Hales, Joseph Smith's Polygamy (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2013), p. 425, 474.

    Lyndon W Cook, Nauvoo Marriages, Proxy Sealings, 1843-1846 (Provo, UT: Grandin Book Coo., 2004), p. 70.

   • Agnes Moulton Coolbrith
Married6 January 1842Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Lisle G. Brown, Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and Anointings (Salt Lake City, Utah: The Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2006), p. 285.

    Brigham Young, Brigham Young Office Files, 1832-1878, Brigham Young Journal, 1837 July 27-1845 April 1, CR 1234 1_b0071_f0002_00037, entry for 6 Jan 1842.

   • Sylvia Porter Sessions
Married8 February 1842Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    George D. Smith, Nauvoo Polygamy (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2011), p. 98-99.

   • Patty Bartlett
Married9 March 1842Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Donna Toland Smart, Mormon Midwife: The 1846-1888 Diaries of Patty Bartlett Sessions (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1997), p. 276-277.

    Brian C. Hales, Joseph Smith's Polygamy (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2013), vol. 1, p. 270-271.

   • Martha McBride
MarriedAugust 1842Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Joseph F. Smith, Affidavits about Celestial Marriage, 1869-1915, Martha McBride Kimball, Affidavit, Salt Lake County, Utah Territory, 8 July 1869, 2:36, 3:36.

   • Delcena Diademia Johnson
MarriedBefore July 1842Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Gary James Bergara, "Identifying the Earliest Mormon Polygamists, 1841-1844" (Stanford, California: Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 2005), p. 66.

    Benjamin F. Johnson, Benjamin F. Johnson Letter to George F. Gibbs (typescript), p. 12 (unpaginated).

   • Mary Elizabeth Rollins
MarriedFebruary 1842Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Brian C. Hales, Joseph Smith's Polygamy (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2013), Vol. 1, p. 264-265, citing Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner "Statement", Feb 8, 1902, and Vol. 1, p. 266, citing Mary E. Rollins Lightner, Letter to A. M. Chase, April 20, 1904.

    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Sealings and adoptions of the living, 1846-1857; index, 1846-1857 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1958), p. 505-506.

   • Elizabeth Davis
MarriedMay 1842Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    George D. Smith, Nauvoo Polygamy (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2011), p. 621.

   • Elvira Annie Cowles
Married1 June 1843Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Devery Scott Anderson, The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845-1846: A Documentary History (Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, 2005), p. 581, 3 February 1846, Joseph Smith (Jonathan H. Holmes, proxy) to Elvira A. Cowles, Brigham Young officiating..

    Joseph F. Smith, Affidavits about Celestial Marriage, 1869-1915, Salt Lake County, Utah Territory, 28 August 1869, 1:78, 4:80.

   • Helen Mar Kimball
Married1 May 1843Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Brian C. Hales, Joseph Smith's Polygamy (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2013), Vol. 2, p. 24-29 and 294-298, citing Autobiography of Helen Mar Kimball, 30 Oct 1881.

    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Sealings and adoptions of the living, 1846-1857; index, 1846-1857 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1958), p. 513-514.

   • Sarah A. Lawrence
Married11 May 1843Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), PID: LJLL-DWP.

    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Sealings and adoptions of the living, 1846-1857; index, 1846-1857 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1958), p. 505-506.

   • Maria Lawrence
Married11 May 1843Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Lisle G. Brown, Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and Anointings (Salt Lake City, Utah: The Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2006), p. 283.

    Brian C. Hales, Joseph Smith's Polygamy (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2013), Vol. 2, p. 48.

    Lyndon W Cook, Nauvoo Marriages, Proxy Sealings, 1843-1846 (Provo, UT: Grandin Book Coo., 2004), p. 47.

    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Sealings and adoptions of the living, 1846-1857; index, 1846-1857 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1958), p. 505-506, FHL microfilm 183374.

   • Olive Grey Frost
Married12 April 1843Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Lisle G. Brown, Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and Anointings (Salt Lake City, Utah: The Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2006), p. 286.

    Brian C. Hales, Joseph Smith's Polygamy (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2013), Vol. 2, p. 4-5.

   • Rhoda Richards
Married12 June 1843Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Joseph F. Smith, Affidavits about Celestial Marriage, 1869-1915, Affadavit, Salt Lake County, Utah Territory, 1May 1869, 1:17, 4:17.

   • Mary Ann Frost
Married1843Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States

   • Hannah S Ells
Married1843Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Joseph F. Smith, Affidavits about Celestial Marriage, 1869-1915, Book 1, p. 74.

   • Fanny Young
Married2 November 1843
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    Joseph F. Smith, Affidavits about Celestial Marriage, 1869-1915, Book 1, p. 52 (Affidavit of Augusta Adams Young) and Book 2, p. 14 (Affidavit of Harriet Cook Young).

   • Melissa Lott
Married20 September 1843Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Joseph F. Smith, Affidavits about Celestial Marriage, 1869-1915, Book 1, p. 23.

   • Emily Dow Partridge
Married4 March 1843Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    George D. Smith, Nauvoo Polygamy (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2011), Vol. 2, p. 7-13.

    Joseph F. Smith, Affidavits about Celestial Marriage, 1869-1915, Affidavit, Salt Lake County, Utah Territory, 1 May 1869, 1:11, 4:11.

    Lyndon W Cook, Nauvoo Marriages, Proxy Sealings, 1843-1846 (Provo, UT: Grandin Book Coo., 2004), p. 39-40.

   • Eliza Maria Partridge
Married8 March 1843Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Joseph F. Smith, Affidavits about Celestial Marriage, 1869-1915, .

   • Lydia Kenyon
MarriedAbout 1841-1843Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Todd Compton, In Sacred Loneliness: the Plural Wives of Joseph Smith (Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 1997), p. 8, 632.

    Lisle G. Brown, Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and Anointings (Salt Lake City, Utah: The Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2006), p. 286, footnote 330.

    Endowment House (LDS Church), Sealings of couples, living and by proxy, 1851-1889 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1958, 1978), “Vol. A&A1 20 Feb 1851-24 Apr 1854,” p. 6; FHL 183393.

    Lyndon W Cook, Nauvoo Marriages, Proxy Sealings, 1843-1846 (Provo, UT: Grandin Book Coo., 2004), p. 12.

   • Sarah Scott
MarriedAbout 1843Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Brian C. Hales, Joseph Smith's Polygamy (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2013), Vol. 2, p. 339.

    Lyndon W Cook, Nauvoo Marriages, Proxy Sealings, 1843-1846 (Provo, UT: Grandin Book Coo., 2004), p. 15.

    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Sealings and adoptions of the living, 1846-1857; index, 1846-1857 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1958), p. 369-370.

   • Mary Houston
MarriedAbout October 1843Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Stanley B. Kimball, Heber C. Kimball: Mormon patriarch and pioneer (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1981), Appendix A, p. 310.

    George D. Smith, Nauvoo Polygamy (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2011), p. 623.

    Lyndon W Cook, Nauvoo Marriages, Proxy Sealings, 1843-1846 (Provo, UT: Grandin Book Coo., 2004), p. 190 [213].

    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Sealings and adoptions of the living, 1846-1857; index, 1846-1857 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1958), p. 513-514.

   • Almera Woodward Johnson
MarriedApril 1843Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Joseph F. Smith, Affidavits about Celestial Marriage, 1869-1915, Book 2, p. 6 (affidavit of Benjamin F. Johnson) and affidavit of Almera W Johnson Smith Barton, p. 2.

    Benjamin F. Johnson, Benjamin F. Johnson Letter to George F. Gibbs (typescript), p. 10-11 (unpaginated).

   • Ruth Daggett Vose
MarriedFebruary 1843Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Joseph F. Smith, Affidavits about Celestial Marriage, 1869-1915, Book 1, p. 9.

   • Flora Ann Woodworth
MarriedMarch 1843Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Joseph F. Smith, Affidavits about Celestial Marriage, 1869-1915, William Clayton, 16 February 1874, p. 3 (unpaginated).

   • Nancy Marinda Johnson
MarriedMay 1843Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Joseph F. Smith, Affidavits about Celestial Marriage, 1869-1915, Book 1, p. 15.

   • Nancy Maria Winchester
MarriedAbout 1844Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Brian C. Hales, Joseph Smith's Polygamy (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2013), Vol. 2, p. 298-300 and p. 337.

    Lyndon W Cook, Nauvoo Marriages, Proxy Sealings, 1843-1846 (Provo, UT: Grandin Book Coo., 2004), p. 45-46.

    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Sealings and adoptions of the living, 1846-1857; index, 1846-1857 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1958), p. 513-514.

   • Phebe Watrous
Married17 January 1846Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Sealings and adoptions of the living, 1846-1857; index, 1846-1857 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1958), p. 503-504, FHL microfilm 183374.

   • Lucinda Pendleton
Married22 January 1846Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Sealings and adoptions of the living, 1846-1857; index, 1846-1857 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1958), p. 505.
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