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Younger, Katharine Smith

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28 July 1813

Obituary for Katharine Smith Younger, Saints’ Herald, 14 Feb. 1900, 112; Patriarchal Blessings, 1:7; JS History, 1834–1836, 10.

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Saints’ Herald. Independence, MO. 1860–.

Patriarchal Blessings, 1833–. CHL. CR 500 2.

JS History, 1834–1836 / Smith, Joseph, et al. History, 1834–1836. In Joseph Smith et al., History, 1838–1856, vol. A-1, back of book (earliest numbering), 9–20, 46–187. Historian's Office, History of the Church, 1839–ca. 1882. CHL. CR 100 102, box 1, vol. 1.

–2 Feb. 1900.

Obituary for Katharine Smith Younger, Saints’ Herald, 14 Feb. 1900, 112.

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Saints’ Herald. Independence, MO. 1860–.

Seamstress, weaver.

McGavin, Family of Joseph Smith, 95–96.

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McGavin, Elmer Cecil. The Family of Joseph Smith. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1963.

Born at Lebanon, Grafton Co., New Hampshire.

Patriarchal Blessings, 1:7.

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Patriarchal Blessings, 1833–. CHL. CR 500 2.

Daughter of Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack.

Patriarchal Blessings, 1:7; JS History, 1834–1836, 10.

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Patriarchal Blessings, 1833–. CHL. CR 500 2.

Moved to Norwich, Windsor Co., Vermont, 1813; to Palmyra, Ontario Co., New York, 1816–Jan. 1817; and to Manchester, Ontario Co., 1825.

Lucy Mack Smith, Biographical Sketches, 66; Lucy Mack Smith, History, 1844–1845, bk. 3, [4]–[6]; Coray, Notebook, ca. 1841–ca. 1850, 25; Vogel, Early Mormon Documents, 5:384; “Palmyra-Manchester, New York,” in Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History, 889–890; Porter, “Study of the Origins,” 28–29n46, 31–32, 76–77.

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Smith, Lucy Mack. Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet and His Progenitors for Many Generations. Liverpool: S. W. Richards, 1853.

Smith, Lucy Mack. History, 1844–1845. 18 books. CHL. MS 2049. Also available at josephsmithpapers.org.

Coray, Martha Jane Knowlton. Notebook, ca. 1841–ca. 1850. BYU.

Vogel, Dan, ed. Early Mormon Documents. 5 vols. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1996–2003.

Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History. Edited by Arnold K. Garr, Donald Q. Cannon, and Richard O. Cowan. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2000.

Porter, Larry C. “A Study of the Origins of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the States of New York and Pennsylvania, 1816–1831.” PhD diss., Brigham Young University, 1971. Also available as A Study of the Origins of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the States of New York and Pennsylvania, 1816–1831, Dissertations in Latter-day Saint History (Provo, UT: Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History; BYU Studies, 2000).

Reported hearing JS’s recitals concerning heavenly visitations and reported lifting gold plates.

Walker, “Katharine Smith Salisbury’s Recollections,” 6.

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Walker, Kyle R. “Katharine Smith Salisbury’s Recollections of Joseph’s Meetings with Moroni.” BYU Studies 41, no. 3 (2002): 5–17.

Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by David Whitmer, ca. 9 June 1830, at Seneca Lake, Seneca Co., New York.

JS History, vol. A-1, 41–42; Minute Book 2, 9 June 1830; Porter, “Study of the Origins,” 261; Obituary for Katharine Smith Younger, Saints’ Herald, 14 Feb. 1900, 112.

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JS History / Smith, Joseph, et al. History, 1838–1856. Vols. A-1–F-1 (original), A-2–E-2 (fair copy). Historian’s Office, History of the Church, 1839–ca. 1882. CHL. CR 100 102, boxes 1–7. The history for the period after 5 Aug. 1838 was composed after the death of Joseph Smith.

Saints’ Herald. Independence, MO. 1860–.

Lived at The Kingdom, unincorporated settlement near Waterloo, Seneca Co., Nov. 1830.

Porter, “Study of the Origins,” 268–271; Lucy Mack Smith, Biographical Sketches, 167.

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Smith, Lucy Mack. Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet and His Progenitors for Many Generations. Liverpool: S. W. Richards, 1853.

Migrated to Kirtland, Geauga Co., Ohio, May 1831.

Katharine Smith Salisbury Younger, Fountain Green, IL, to “Dear Sisters,” 16 May 1886, Saints’ Herald, 3 July 1886, 404–405; Porter, “Study of the Origins,” 314–316, 320; Lucy Mack Smith, Biographical Sketches, 172–173.

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Saints’ Herald. Independence, MO. 1860–.

Smith, Lucy Mack. Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet and His Progenitors for Many Generations. Liverpool: S. W. Richards, 1853.

Married first to Wilkins Jenkins Salisbury by Sidney Rigdon, 8 June 1831, at Kirtland.

Marriage License for Wilkins Jenkins and Katharine Smith, 8 June 1831, in Geauga Co., OH, Probate Court, Marriage Records, Licenses, 1829–1833, microfilm 873,464, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; Geauga Co., OH, Probate Court, Marriage Records, vol. B, p. 196, microfilm 873,461, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.

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U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

After marriage, settled at Chardon, Geauga Co., 1831.

Walker, “Katharine Smith Salisbury’s Recollections,” 6; JS, Journal, 29 Nov. 1832.

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Walker, Kyle R. “Katharine Smith Salisbury’s Recollections of Joseph’s Meetings with Moroni.” BYU Studies 41, no. 3 (2002): 5–17.

Stockholder in Kirtland Safety Society.

Kirtland Safety Society Stock Ledger, Chicago Historical Society.

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Kirtland Safety Society. Stock Ledger, 1836–1837. Collection of Manuscripts about Mormons, 1832–1954, Chicago History Museum. Copy at CHL.

Left Ohio for Far West, Caldwell Co., Missouri, May 1838.

Letter from Don Carlos Smith, 6 July 1838; Lucy Mack Smith, History, 1844–1845, bk. 15, [3], [6].

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Smith, Lucy Mack. History, 1844–1845. 18 books. CHL. MS 2049. Also available at josephsmithpapers.org.

Fled Missouri; located near present-day Bardolph, McDonough Co., Illinois, Feb. 1839.

Lucy Mack Smith, Biographical Sketches, 253–254, 257; McGavin, Family of Joseph Smith, 104.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Smith, Lucy Mack. Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet and His Progenitors for Many Generations. Liverpool: S. W. Richards, 1853.

McGavin, Elmer Cecil. The Family of Joseph Smith. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1963.

Moved to Plymouth, Hancock Co., Illinois, by 1843; to Nauvoo, Hancock Co., by 1845; to Alexandria, Clark Co., Missouri, spring 1846; to Warsaw, Hancock Co., late 1846; and to Webster, Hancock Co., fall 1847.

JS, Journal, 9 Jan. 1843; Walker, “Katharine Smith Salisbury’s Recollections,” 7; McGavin, Family of Joseph Smith, 99.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Walker, Kyle R. “Katharine Smith Salisbury’s Recollections of Joseph’s Meetings with Moroni.” BYU Studies 41, no. 3 (2002): 5–17.

McGavin, Elmer Cecil. The Family of Joseph Smith. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1963.

Husband died, 28 Oct. 1853, in Plymouth.

Hancock Co., IL, Cemetery Listings, ca. 1770–1965, Webster Cemetery, p. 9, microfilm 1,618,154, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; Walker, “Joseph Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith Family,” 275; Anderson, Ancestry and Posterity of Joseph Smith, 75.

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U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

Walker, Kyle R. “The Joseph Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith Family: A Family Process Analysis of a Nineteenth-Century Household.” PhD diss., Brigham Young University, 2001.

Anderson, Mary Audentia Smith. Ancestry and Posterity of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale: With Little Sketches of Their Immigrant Ancestors All of Whom Came to America between the Years 1620 and 1685, and Settled in the States of Massachusetts and Connecticut. Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1929.

Married second Joseph Younger, 3 May 1857, in Hancock Co.

Hancock Co., IL, Marriage Register, 1829–1915, vol. A-2, p. 44, microfilm 954,177, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.

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U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

Received into Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1873, based on original baptism.

Walker, “Joseph Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith Family,” 274; Obituary for Katharine Smith Younger, Saints’ Herald, 14 Feb. 1900, 112.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Walker, Kyle R. “The Joseph Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith Family: A Family Process Analysis of a Nineteenth-Century Household.” PhD diss., Brigham Young University, 2001.

Saints’ Herald. Independence, MO. 1860–.

Died at Fountain Green, Hancock Co.

Obituary for Katharine Smith Younger, Saints’ Herald, 14 Feb. 1900, 112.

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Saints’ Herald. Independence, MO. 1860–.

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