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Lucy Mack Smith. Lucy’s autobiography offers a unique perspective on her family’s role in the early Church, retells incidents and interactions recounted nowhere else, and shares insights no one else could provide. It is a record of inestimable value.
- Lucy Mack Smith - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Lucy Mack Smith was a strong voice in the early Church. She...
- Episode 14—Lucy Mack Smith, Joseph Smith’s First Biographer
The first Latter-day Saint autobiography, intimate in its...
- Lucy Mack Smith - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Early Life
- Economic Trials and Relocating The Family
- Joseph Smith Is Chosen to Restore The Gospel of Christ
- After The Martyrdom
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Lucy Mack was born on July 8, 1775, in Gilsum, New Hampshire, the youngest of eight children born to Solomon Mack and Lydia Gates Mack. Lucy Mack’s family was religious and even evangelical. Her older brother Jason eventually formed his own religious community, and her two sisters both had spiritual experiences giving them confirmation that their s...
Lucy’s husband, Joseph, Sr., fell prey to dishonest businessmen and faced mounting debt. A series of financial setbacks and the loss of their farm in Tunbridge, forced him to move his family several times—they moved from Tunbridge to Royalton, then to Sharon in Windsor County. Joseph Smith, Jr. was born in Sharon, Vermont, in 1805. The Smiths retur...
It was in Palmyra, as the Smith family was investigating the local churches, that Joseph Smith, Jr. experienced what members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints call the First Vision. In 1820, Joseph, then aged 14, had retired to the woods to ask the Lord which church was correct. He returned from the grove with news that would make ...
At this time, Lucy became a symbol of continuity, assuming greater importance because of the strained relationship between Young and Joseph’s widow, Emma. Hosea Stout noted in his diary on February 23, 1845, that Smith spoke at a church meeting. She spoke “with the most feeling and heartbroken manner” of “the trials and troubles she had passed thro...
Richard Lloyd Anderson, “The Trustworthiness of Joseph Smith”, The Improvement Era, Vol 73, Number 10 (October 1970), reprinted by SHIELDSScot and Maurine Proctor, “The Serialization of Lucy Mack Smith’s History of Her Son”, Meridian Magazine, March 13, 2017People also ask
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ACCN 0989. Summary. The Lucy Mack Smith autobiography (1844-1845) contain two photocopies of a handwritten autobiography of Lucy Mack Smith (1776-1855). The autobiography was recorded by Martha Jane Knowlton Coray. Lucy Smith was the mother of Joseph Smith, the founder of the LDS Church. Repository.
These can best be seen by reading her biography of her family, which is virtually her own autobiography. 4 Sometimes depicted as ignorant in unsympathetic literature, Lucy writes with the power and clarity of a bright mind. Although her history has been generally understood as dictated to and polished by others, over 200 pages of her ...
- Anderson, Richard Lloyd
- Lucy Mack Smith
- Magazine Article
- 1973
May 25, 2010 · Author: Anderson, Richard Lloyd. Lucy Mack Smith (1775-1856) was the mother of the Prophet Joseph Smith and his main biographer for the crucial formative years of the restored Church. A marked tenderness existed between the Smith parents and children, and Lucy lived near or in the Prophet's household through hardships in New York, Ohio ...
