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February 2008 Ensign FAMILY OF JOSEPH SMITH JR. AND EMMA HALE SMITH Joseph & Emma’s Family Alvin Smith was born and died on June 15, 1828, in Harmony, Pennsylvania. Twins Thadeus and Louisa Smith were born and died on April 30, 1831, in Kirtland, Ohio. Adopted twins Joseph and Julia Murdock were born to John and Julia Murdock, on May 1, 1831, in Kirtland, Ohio. When mother Julia Joseph Smith Jr. was born on December 23, 1805, in Sharon, Vermont. Emma Hale was born on July 10, 1804, in Harmony, Pennsylvania. They married January 18, 1827, in South Bainbridge, New York. They died in childbirth, John were the parents of 11 chil- Murdock allowed friends dren, listed here in order of Joseph and Emma Smith to birth. Joseph was martyred adopt the twins. on June 27, 1844, in Joseph Murdock Smith, Carthage, Illinois. Emma adopted son, died on March died on April 30, 1879, in LEFT: ILLUSTRATION OF JOSEPH AND EMMA BY 30, 1832, in Hiram, Ohio, PAUL MANN; Nauvoo, Illinois. ABOVE: A FATHER’S GIFT, BY LIZ LEMON SWINDLE, from exposure caused when FOUNDATION ARTS, MAY NOT BE COPIED a mob attacked the Prophet. ENSIGN FEBRUARY 2008 39 in 1852 in Nauvoo, Illinois. He died about 1869 in St. Louis, Missouri. They had no children. Julia died on September 10, 1880, in Nauvoo, Illinois, at the age of 49. Julia has no known descendants.* Julia Murdock Smith, adopted daughter, married Elisah Dixon in 1848 in Nauvoo, Illinois. They had no children. After Elisah died in 1850 in Galveston, Texas, Julia married John J. Middleton Joseph Smith III was born on November 6, 1832, in Kirtland, Ohio. He married Emmeline Griswold on October 22, 1856, in Nauvoo, Illinois. They had five chil- JOSEPH SMITH THE PROPHET dren. After Emmeline’s death on March 25, 1869, in Plano, Illinois, he married Bertha Madison on November 12, 1869, in Sandwich, Illinois. They had nine children. After Bertha’s death on October 19, 1896, in Lamoni, Iowa, he married Ada Rachel Clark on January 12, 1898, in Waldemar, Dufferin, Ontario, Canada. They had three children. Joseph III died December 10, 1914, in Independence, Missouri, at the age of 82. He has 352 known descendants.* MANN PAUL OF EMMA AND JOSEPH BY ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE FILM INSET PHOTOGRAPHS Frederick Granger Williams Don Carlos Smith was born Smith was born on June 20, on June 13, 1840, in Nauvoo, 1836, in Kirtland, Ohio. He Illinois. He died on August 15, married Anna Marie Jones 1841, in Nauvoo, Illinois. on September 13, 1857, in (Scene of Emma with baby from the film Joseph Smith: The Prophet Steubenville, Ohio. They had of the Restoration) one child. Frederick died April 13, 1862, in Nauvoo, Illinois, Thomas Smith was born at the age of 25. He has no and died on February 6, known living descendants.* 1842, in Nauvoo, Illinois. JOSEPH SMITH: THE PROPHET Alexander Hale Smith was David Hyrum Smith was born born on June 2, 1838, in Far on November 17, 1844, in West, Missouri. He married Nauvoo, Illinois. He married Elizabeth Agnes Kendall on Clara Charlotte Hartshorn on May 23, 1861, in Nauvoo, May 10, 1870, in Sandwich, BY MATTHEW REIER; INSET PORTRAITS MATTHEW BY COURTESY OF THE COMMUNITY CHRIST CHURCH Illinois. They had nine chil- Illinois. They had one child. dren. He died August 12, David died August 29, 1904, 1909, in Nauvoo, Illinois, at in Elgin, Illinois, at the age the age of 71. He has 1,569 of 59. He has 27 known ■ ILLUSTRATIONS OF EMMA AND JOSEPH BY PAUL MANN; INSET PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE FILM INSET PHOTOGRAPHS MANN; PAUL OF EMMA AND JOSEPH BY ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE RESTORATION, known descendants.* descendants.* *Descendants identified as of November 19, 2007. Source: Michael Kennedy, president of the Joseph Smith Jr. Family Organization, a part of the Joseph Smith Sr.–Lucy Mack Smith Foundation. ENSIGN FEBRUARY 2008 41.
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