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Joseph Smith, Jr.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Male 1805 - 1844  (38 years)

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  • Name Joseph Smith 
    Suffix Jr. 
    Birth 23 Dec 1805  Sharon, Windsor, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Death 27 Jun 1844  Carthage, Hancock, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I2857  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
    Last Modified 4 May 2024 

    Family 1 Martha McBride,   b. 17 Mar 1805, Chester, Washington, New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Nov 1901, Hooper, Weber, Utah Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 96 years) 
    Marriage 1842  [1
    Family ID F1723  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 Jul 2015 

    Family 2 Delcina Diademia Johnson,   b. 19 Nov 1806, Westford, Chittenden, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Oct 1854, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 47 years) 
    Marriage Bef Jul 1842  [2
    Family ID F24028  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 May 2024 

    Family 3 Almera Woodward Johnson,   b. 12 Oct 1812, Westford, Chittenden, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Mar 1896, Parowan, Iron, Utah Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years) 
    Marriage 1843  [3
    Family ID F24027  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 May 2024 

  • Photos
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  • Notes 
    • From Wikipedia:

      Joseph Smith, Jr. (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader and founder of Mormonism. When he was twenty-four, Smith published the Book of Mormon; by the time of his death fourteen years later, he had attracted tens of thousands of followers and founded a religion and religious culture that continues to the present.

      Smith was born in Sharon, Vermont, but by 1817, he had moved with his family to western New York, a site of intense religious revivalism during the Second Great Awakening. According to Smith, he experienced a series of visions, including one in which he saw "two personages" (presumably God the Father and Jesus Christ) and others in which an angel directed him to a buried book of golden plates inscribed with a Judeo-Christian history of an ancient American civilization. In 1830, Smith published what he said was an English translation of these plates, the Book of Mormon. The same year he organized the Church of Christ, calling it a restoration of the early Christian church. Members of the church were later called "Latter Day Saints", or "Mormons".

      In 1831, Smith and his followers moved west, planning to build a communalistic American Zion. They first gathered in Kirtland, Ohio and established an outpost in Independence, Missouri which was intended to be Zion's "center place". During the 1830s, Smith sent out missionaries, published revelations, and supervised construction of an expensive temple. Nevertheless, the collapse of a church-sponsored bank and violent skirmishes with non-Mormon Missourians caused Smith and his followers to establish a new settlement at Nauvoo, Illinois, where he became both a spiritual and political leader. In 1844, Smith and the Nauvoo city council angered non-Mormons by destroying a newspaper that had criticized Smith's power and practice of polygamy. After Smith was imprisoned in Carthage, Illinois, he was killed when a mob stormed the jailhouse.

      Smith published many revelations and other texts that his followers regard as scripture. His teachings include unique views about the nature of God, cosmology, family structures, political organization, and religious collectivism. His followers regard him as a prophet comparable to Moses and Elijah, and he is considered the founder of several religious denominations, including The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Community of Christ.

  • Sources 
    1. [S160] Wikipedia.

    2. [S7665] Find a Grave page for Delcena Diademia Johnson Sherman.

    3. [S7664] Find a Grave page for Almera Woodard Johnson Smith Barton.