[22] Biographer Fawn Brodie wrote, "He was a gregarious, cheerful, imaginative youth, born to leadership, but hampered by meager education and grinding poverty. ", "When Joseph Smith first began to use his seer or "peep" stone he employed the folklore familiar to rural America. No children. The Smith Family, Cowdery, Harris, and Other Old Neighbors—What They Know", Latter Day Saints' Messenger and Advocate, "Joseph Smith and the 1826 Trial: New Evidence and New Difficulties", "Joseph Knight's Recollection of Early Mormon History", "Interview with the Father of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet, Forty Years Ago. [126] Convinced, Harris immediately gave Smith $50 (equivalent to $1,100 in 2019), and committed to sponsor the translation of the plates. [94] When Smith attempted to get the plates back out of the box, the angel hurled him back to the ground with a violent force (id.). Founder and First President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (also known as the Mormons). He has 1,112 known descendants. [127], The money provided by Harris was enough to pay all of Smith's debts in Palmyra, and for him to travel with Emma and all of their belongings to Harmony Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, where they would be able to avoid the public commotion in Palmyra over the plates. Smith came from an unremarkable New England family. [92] There are varying accounts as to how Smith reportedly found the precise location of the golden plates. [8] In Palmyra village, Smith Sr. and his oldest sons hired themselves out as common laborers, ran a "cake and beer shop," and peddled refreshments from a cart; Lucy painted cloth coverings for tables and stands. [5][6], In 1814 the Smiths moved back across the Connecticut River to Norwich, Vermont, where they suffered three seasons of crop failures, the last the result of the Year Without a Summer. The proximity of the Smith home to Ganondagan (GAN-NON’-DAY-GON), the Haudenosaunee House of Peace from which the Jikohnsaseh ruled, assures that the entire Smith family was probably familiar with this story and its tie to a moneyless society. [114] Once home in Palmyra, he then walked to Cumorah and said he removed the plates from their hiding place, and walked back home with the plates wrapped in a linen frock under his arm, suffering a dislocated thumb as he fended off attackers.[115]. [128] Thus, in early October 1827, they moved to Harmony, with the glass box reportedly holding the plates hidden during the trip in a barrel of beans. [65] Many have presumed this to be the Rev. Family of Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith: The First Family of the Restoration Joseph SMITH Sr. was born July 12, 1771, in Topsfield, Massachusetts. [58], The exact details of the First Vision vary somewhat depending upon who is recounting the story and when. **, *Katharine SMITH was born July 28, 1813, in Lebanon, New Hampshire. [65] Tales of visions and theophanies, however, were not unusual at the time, though the clergy of many organized religions often resisted the stories. Lucy died May 8, 1856, in Nauvoo, Illinois. The first of Smith's wives, Emma Hale, gave birth to nine children during their marriage, five of whom died before the age of two. [107] Because Smith was concerned that Samuel Lawrence, his earlier confidant, might interfere, Smith sent his father to spy on Lawrence's house the night of September 21 until dark. Descendants identified as of February 12, 2005. [110] He also reportedly retrieved the Urim and Thummim, which he showed to his mother the next morning. Joe graduated from Ellsworth High School in 1978. [118] Fearing it might be discovered, however, Smith hid the chest under the floor boards of his parents' old log home nearby. [104] However, Lawrence was apparently not the "right person", because Smith did not obtain the plates in his 1825 visit. Thus the beginning of the believing blood, as prophesied by Joseph of old, was anchored in the United States of America. “The Family: A Proclamation to the World,” Ensign, November 1995, 102. "[39] Thus, Smith was reared in a family that believed in prophecy and visions, was skeptical of organized religion, and was interested in both folk magic and new religious ideas. The Revised and Enhanced History of Joseph Smith by His Mother, ed. Web site of the Joseph Smith Sr. Foundation: www.josephsmithsr.com. [112] Spying once again on the house of Samuel Lawrence, Smith Sr. determined that a group of ten–twelve of these men, including Lawrence and Willard Chase, had enlisted the talents of a renowned and supposedly talented seer from 60 miles (100 km) away, in an effort to locate where the plates were hidden by means of divination. However, Smith stated he was unable to obtain the plates at his first visit. "[74], Smith agreed to take the job of assisting Stowell and Hale, and he and his father worked with the Stowell-Hale team for approximately one month, attempting, according to their contract, to locate "a valuable mine of either Gold or Silver and also...coined money and bars or ingots of Gold or Silver". Four witnesses reported that the Smiths used divining rods in the Palmyra area, and sometime between Joseph Smith's eleventh and thirteenth years, he began "following his father's example in using a divining rod. [101] After three failed attempts to retrieve the plates, the angel told him that he could not have them then, because he "had been tempted of the advisary [sic] and saught [sic] the Plates to obtain riches and kept not the commandments that I should have".[52]. In Smith's own account dated 1838, he stated that an angel visited him on the night of September 21, 1823. "[24] Major multi-denominational religious revivals occurred in the Palmyra area in both 1816-17 (when the Smiths were in the process of migrating from Vermont) and in 1824-25. 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Smith family members held divergent views about organized religion, believed in visions and prophecies, and engaged in certain folk religious practices typical of the era. Lucy has 92 known descendants.**. The bulk of Smith's persecution seems to have arisen among laity, and not because of his First Vision, but because of his later assertion to have discovered the golden plates in a hill near his home;[citation needed] the statement was widely publicized and ridiculed in local newspapers beginning around 1827. "[73], In late 1825, Josiah Stowell, a well-to-do farmer from South Bainbridge, Chenango County, New York, who had been searching for a lost Spanish mine near Harmony Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania with another seer, traveled to Manchester to hire Smith "on account of having heard that he possessed certain keys, by which he could discern things invisible to the natural eye. According to Smith, the angel prevented him from taking the plates in 1823, telling him to come back in exactly a year. Joseph Smith Family. Smith was born in Sharon, Vermont, the fifth of eleven children born to Joseph and Lucy Mack Smith. Former reunions have been held in Nauvoo, Illinois; Independence, Missouri; Kirtland, Ohio; and Salt Lake City, Utah. When the twins died, the Smiths adopted another set of twins, Julia and Joseph, whose mother had recently died in childbirth; Joseph died of measlesin 1832. GRANT on February 14, 1833, in Kirtland, Ohio. March 29 Joseph and Emma’s adopted son, Joseph Murdock, dies in consequence of exposure the night Joseph was tarred and feathered. Orsamus Turner who reported Smith "catching a spark of Methodism on the Vienna road" visited Palmyra only between 1822 and 1828. He married Emma Hale on 18 January 1827, in Bainbridge, Bainbridge, Chenango, New York, United States. Joseph’s wife, Emma Smith, chose to stay behind with her family and Lucy Mack Smith, Joseph’s mother. He has 13,583 known descendants. The exact date of the birth comes into dispute but other contemporary information […] New York west of the Catskill and Adirondack Mountains became known as the "Burned-over district" because it was "repeatedly singed by the fires of revival that swept through the region in the early years of the nineteenth century. [citation needed], Years later, one non-Mormon neighbor summed up views of Smith and his family by their Palmyra neighbors by saying, "To tell the truth, there was something about him they could not understand; some way he knew more than they did, and it made them mad. He married Emma HALE on January 18, 1827, in South Bainbridge, New York. He died August 7, 1841, in Nauvoo, Illinois. Lucy later claimed that she had refused to permit her son's leg to be amputated; in fact, the Smiths had chanced on one of New England's most respected physicians, Nathan Smith, who "probably alone in American medicine at this time" advocated removal of the dead portion of the bone rather than amputation of the leg. *Infant son SMITH was born and died in 1797, Tunbridge, Vermont. In 1842, Emma gave birth to a stillborn son. This historic site is located on the 100 acres of land cultivated by the Smith family in the 1820s. [75] Smith boarded with an Isaac Hale (a relative of William Hale), and fell in love with Isaac Hale's daughter Emma, a schoolteacher he would later marry in 1827. "[36] Magical parchments handed down in the Hyrum Smith family may have belonged to Joseph Sr.[37] Lucy Mack Smith noted in her memoirs that while family members were "trying to win the faculty of Abrac, drawing magic circles or sooth saying," they did not neglect manual labor, "but whilst we worked with our hands we endeavored to remember the service of & the welfare of our souls. His grandfather, Asael Smith, lost most of his property in Topsfield, Massachusetts, during the economic downturn of the 1780s and eventually moved to Vermont, where Smith’s father, Joseph Smith, Sr., established himself as a farmer. [10] [18] His mother described him as "much less inclined to the perusal of books than any of the rest of the children, but far more given to meditation and deep study." The characters on the unsealed part were small, and beautifully engraved. She died October 28, 1876, in Colchester, Illinois. by Keith L. Brown | Mar 12, 2015 | Joseph Smith's Family. In 1820, the family contracted to pay for a 100-acre (40 ha) farm just outside Palmyra in Manchester Township. Most early converts probably never heard about the 1820 vision. [29] For instance, Joseph Smith's paternal grandfather, Asael, was a Universalist who opposed evangelical religion. Lane, but there is no record of Lane visiting the Palmyra vicinity in 1820. Joseph Smith 1845 1907 Kentucky Kentucky Joseph Smith, 1845 - 1907. Joseph Smith, Jr. (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader and the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. Joseph Smith (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader and the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement whose current followers include members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Community of Christ, and other Latter Day Saint denominations. They had six children. "[19] Smith was variously described as "remarkably quiet,"[20] "taciturn," "proverbially good-natured," and "never known to laugh. [33] Lucy's account, recorded thirty years after the period in which the visions are said to have occurred, suggests "a tendency to make her husband the predecessor of her son" by echoing passages in the Book of Mormon. After the typically horrific early nineteenth-century surgery without either anesthetic or antiseptic, Smith eventually recovered, though he used crutches for several years and had a slight limp for the remainder of his life. The whole book exhibited many marks of antiquity in its construction and much skill in the art of engraving. Joseph Smith was born on month day 1845, at birth place, Kentucky, to Jesse, James Smith and Susannah Smith. William B. SMITH was born March 13, 1811, in Royalton, Vermont. Joseph’s father, brother, and sisters were educated and even occasionally taught school. According to an account by Willard Chase, the angel gave Smith a strict set of "commandments" which he was to follow in order to obtain the plates. For more information about upcoming reunions, please contact Frances Orton at ortonfrances@gmail.com. She married Calvin W. STODDARD on December 2, 1827, in Palmyra, New York. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name, and said, pointing to the other, 'This is my Beloved Son. [102] When Lucy visited Harris, he had heard about Smith's report to have found golden plates through the grapevine in Palmyra, and was interested in finding out more. “I Have a Question,” Ensign, Mar. Joseph Fielding Smith (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1976), 174. They were filled with engravings, in Ancient Egyptian characters and bound together in a volume, as the leaves of a book with three rings running through the whole. [11] The Smith family first built a log home,[12] then in 1822, under the supervision of Joseph Smith's oldest brother Alvin, they began building a larger frame house. [original research?] Joseph’s elder brother, Hyrum, attended Moor’s Academy, a prep school for Dartmouth College, from 1811 to 1815. Her children were an unnamed child, who died shortly after birth, Alvin, Hyrum, Sophronia, Joseph, Samuel, Ephraim, William, Catherine, Don Carlos, and Lucy. page xi, harvtxt error: no target: CITEREFHowe1833 (, harvtxt error: no target: CITEREFKight1833 (, harvtxt error: no target: CITEREFHarris1853 (, harvtxt error: no target: CITEREFHowe1976 (, harvtxt error: no target: CITEREFSmith1842 (, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Harmony Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, Cunning Folk Traditions and the Latter Day Saint Movement, Joseph Smith and the criminal justice system, "Circumstantial Confirmation Of the first Vision Through Reminiscences", "Awakenings in the Burned-over District: New Light on the Historical Setting of the first Vision", "Archaeological Work at the Smith Log House", "Mormonism—No. William died on November 13, 1893, in Osterdock, Iowa. [94] However, Alvin died within a few months, and when Smith returned to the hill in 1824, he did not return with the plates. Returning with Emma to the hill in 1827, Smith said the angel allowed him to take the plates but forbade him from showing them to anyone except those to whom the angel directed. Oftentimes the family trees listed as still in progress have derived from research into famous people who have a kinship to this person. Dr. Joseph Smith, Family Medicine in Springfield, OH. 1979, 42–44. [125] Smith convinced Harris that he had the plates, and that the angel had told him to "quit the company of the money-diggers". [68][69] Early prejudice against Smith may have taken place by clergy, but there is no contemporary record of this. [117] At first, he reportedly kept the plates in a chest under the hearth in his parents' home. Around 1818 the Joseph Smith Sr. family built and moved into a log house in the woods several miles south of the village of Palmyra, New York. The population of Vermont decreased from 15,000 to 10,000 at this time. Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2008 This book provides a convenient summary of the lives of the remarkable family of Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith, parents of the Prophet Joseph Smith. She died December 9, 1882, in Colchester, Illinois. After Jerusha’s death, Hyrum married Mary FIELDING on December 24, 1837, in Kirtland, Ohio. The Smith family was a literate family. "[41] Smith apparently attended the Presbyterian Sunday school as a child,[42] and later as an adolescent, he displayed interest in Methodism. Joseph Smith (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader and the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement whose current followers include members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Community of Christ, and other Latter Day Saint denominations. [7] The extended Smith clan had already moved west to New York, and in 1817, Joseph Smith Sr. traveled alone to Palmyra, New York, followed shortly by the rest of his family—although not before Lucy Smith was forced to settle with some last-minute creditors. [57] Joseph and his family could have traveled to sell cake and beer at this event, as they did other events in the Palmyra vicinity, but this is pure speculation. Isaac Hale, however, disapproved of their relationship and of Smith in general. Smith's first account in 1832 dated the vision to 1821 and stated that he saw "a piller [sic] of fire light above the brightness of the sun at noon day", and that "the Lord opened the heavens upon me and I saw the Lord and he spake unto me saying Joseph my son thy sins are forgiven thee". [121], Harris had apparently been a close confidant of the Smith family since at least 1826,[122] and he may have heard about Smith's attempts to obtain the plates from the angel even earlier from Smith Sr.[123] He was also a believer in Smith's powers with his seer stone. Hear Him!'".[60]. Thus, Smith said the angel directed him to return the next year on September 22, 1824, with the "right person", whom the angel reportedly said was his brother Alvin. [49], Like his father, the younger Smith reportedly had his own set of visions, the first of which occurred in the early 1820s when Smith was in his early teens and is called by Latter Day Saints the First Vision. [25] Small denominational revivals and camp meetings occurred during the intervals. Meanwhile, during one of Smith's treasure hunting expeditions, he met and fell in love with Emma Smith from Harmony Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, whom he married in 1827. [118] Therefore, Smith sent his mother[120] to the home of Martin Harris, a local landowner said at the time to be worth about $8,000 to $10,000. He married Agnes Moultin COOLBRITH on July 30, 1835, in Kirtland, Ohio. Smith stated that the retelling of his vision story "excited a great deal of prejudice against me among professors of religion, and was the cause of great persecution, which continued to increase". [116], Smith refused to allow anyone, including his family, to view the plates directly. They were the parents of 11 children, listed here in order of birth. Sometimes called the third martyr, Samuel died July 30, 1844, in Nauvoo, Illinois, of injuries sustained while riding from Nauvoo to Carthage to aid his brothers. [119], Joseph Smith's intention was to keep the box reportedly containing the golden plates safe from his Palmyra neighbors while he dictated a translation of the book's reputed contents, which he would then publish. The bullet missed him, hitting a cow instead, and the perpetrator was not found. ", harvtxt error: no target: CITEREFHill1972 (, harvtxt error: no target: CITEREFJessee1984 (, The date of Moroni's first visits is generally taken as 1823. He was the third son and fourth child of Joseph and Lucy Mack Smith, who had a family of ten children. Near poverty nearly all their lives, the children had to work early to support the family, and as a result, their education suffered. Copy of genealogical information in Joseph Smith Sr. Family Reunions Files, 1972–2003. Create a free family tree for yourself or for Joseph Smith and we’ll search for valuable new information for you. Joseph and E… Due to the bad harvests they were one of the families that moved west, in their case to Palmyra in New York. A number of family members fell ill, and Joseph experienced a common complication whereby typhoid bacteria infected bone, in Smith's case, the shin bone. Katharine has 92 known descendants. Frederick Granger Williams Smith. [citation needed], In 1826 Smith was arrested and brought to court in Bainbridge, New York, on the complaint of Stowell's nephew who accused Smith of being "a disorderly person and an imposter. Joseph Smith Family and the Year without a summer. When Smith was fourteen, he was apparently shot at while returning home from an errand, but was not injured. When Joseph Smith Jr was born on 23 December 1805, in Sharon, Windsor, Vermont, United States, his father, Joseph Smith Sr, was 34 and his mother, Lucy Mack, was 30. By 1817, Smith's family had moved to the "burned-over district" of western New York, an area repeatedly swept by religious revivals during the Second Great Awakening. "[4] Then during the winter of 1812–1813, typhoid fever struck along the Connecticut Valley, including the area around Lebanon, New Hampshire, where the Smiths had recently moved. Joseph Smith Hide this Quote Hide this Author I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book. The Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith Family Reunion is held biennially in various locations around the country. Background: After Much Contemplation, © Al Rounds, may not be copied, Joseph Smith Sr. portrait and family sketches by William Whitaker; Lucy Mack Smith portrait by Lee Greene Richards, Painting by unknown artist, © Community of Christ, may not be copied, Background: Winter at Joseph Smith Sr. Home, © Al Rounds, may not be copied. "[23], Smith grew to maturity during the Second Great Awakening, a period of religious excitement in the United States. [96], The plates, according to Smith, were inside a covered stone box. [94] According to Smith's mother, the angel forbade him to put the plates on the ground until they were under lock and key. In some cases spelling or historical discrepancies exist. [99], When Smith arrived at the place where the plates were supposed to be, he reportedly took the plates from the stone box they were in and set them down on the ground nearby, looking to see if there were other items in the box that would "be of some pecuniary advantage to him". He married Jerusha BARDEN on November 2, 1826, in Manchester Township, New York. [14] By this time Joseph Smith Sr. may have partially abdicated family leadership to Alvin,[15] and in 1825, the Smiths were unable to make their mortgage payments. The family tree for Joseph Smith is still in the early stages of research. According to an unsupported account by Hale, Smith attempted to locate the mine by burying his face in a hat containing the seer stone; however, as the treasure hunters got close to their objective, Smith said that an enchantment became so strong that Smith could no longer see it. [112] Later, he said he took the plates out of the chest, left the empty chest under the floor boards, and hid the plates in a barrel of flax, not long before the location of the empty box was discovered and the place ransacked by Smith's former treasure-seeking associates, who had enlisted one of the men's sisters to find that location by looking in her seer stone. They had two children. According to Smith, the plates "had the appearance of gold", and were: six inches wide and eight inches long and not quite so thick as common tin. [26][27][28], Joseph Smith's ancestors had an eclectic variety of religious views and affiliations. Joseph Smith Jr.—Prophet of God, Mighty Servant, Family of Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith: The First Family of the Restoration, A Prophet’s Life: The Cradle—Sharon, Vermont, The Early Preparation of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Strengthening the Family: Adapting to Circumstances, Family Home Evening Helps: A Buffet of Words, Church Continues to Aid Hurricane Victims, Church Sends Relief in Wake of Earthquake, Hurricane, Measles Initiative Saving African Children, Sister Parkin Pitches In against Measles in Africa, Children in Ghana and Fiji Receive Children’s Books, New Temple Presidents Prepare for Assignments, DVD Given in the Spirit of Sharing the Gospel, “Family of Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith: The First Family of the Restoration,” Ensign, Dec. 2005, 7–9. 1831–1866. **, Samuel Harrison SMITH was born March 13, 1808, in Tunbridge, Vermont. Nevertheless, in 1829, the Smiths and five of their children moved back into the log house, with Hyrum Smith and his wife. The eldest, Alvin (born in 1828), died within hours of birth, as did twins Thaddeus and Louisa (born in 1831). Ancestral pedigree chart of Joseph Smith. To do so, however, he needed an investment of money, and at the time he was penniless. Around 1820 Smith is said to have experienced a theophany, now known as his First Vision among adherents. While Smith was working as a treasure hunter, he was also frequently occupied with another more religious matter: acquiring a set of golden plates he said were deposited, along with other artifacts, in a prominent hill near his home. **, Lucy SMITH was born July 18, 1821, in Manchester Township, New York. Their son Joseph Smith Sr. was born July 12, 1771. In the next fourteen years, the Smiths moved seven times. The family tree listed here should not be considered exhaustive or authoritative. "[32] According to Lucy, Joseph Smith Sr. also had seven visions between 1811 and 1819, coming at a time when he was "much excited upon the subject of religion." [17] Young Joseph worked on his family farm and perhaps took an occasional odd job or worked for nearby farmers. Obituary for Joseph Mark Smith | Joseph Mark Smith, 60, of Red Wing, formerly of Ellsworth, passed away Sunday, August 9, 2020. **, Don Carlos SMITH was born March 25, 1816, in Norwich, Vermont. He married Mary BAILEY on August 13, 1834, in Kirtland, Ohio. History, 1834–1836. [86] Concerning the visit, Smith dictated the following: He called me by name, and said unto me that he was a messenger sent from the presence of God to me, and that his name was Moroni;[87] that God had a work for me to do; and that my name should be had for good and evil among all nations, kindreds, and tongues, or that it should be both good and evil spoken of among all people. The Prophet Joseph was martyred June 27, 1844, in Carthage, Illinois. [80] Although Smith's associate Oliver Cowdery later stated that Smith was "honorably acquitted,"[81] the result of the proceeding is unclear, with some claiming he was found guilty, others claiming he was "condemned" but "designedly allowed to escape," and yet others (including the trial note taker) claiming he was "discharged" for lack of evidence. According to Lucy Smith, Asael once came to Joseph Smith Sr.'s door after he had attended a Methodist meeting with Lucy and "threw Tom Paine's Age of Reason into the the [sic?] house and angrily bade him read that until he believed it. When Joseph A. Smith was born on 8 July 1914, his father, Clayton Trask Smith, was 36 and his mother, Judith Anne Cunningham, was 33. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 2 daughters. Family records in possession of Gracia Jones, descendant of Joseph Smith Jr. Church History in the Fulness of Times (Church Educational System manual, 1993). When the farm failed, Joseph Senior moved the family to Palmyra, New York, hoping to do better. Hyrum SMITH was born February 9, 1800, in Tunbridge, Vermont. "[30] Conversely, in 1811 Smith's maternal grandfather, Solomon Mack, self-published a book describing a series of heavenly visions and voices he said had led to his conversion to Christianity at the age of seventy-six. Smith was born in Sharon, Vermont, the fifth of eleven children born to Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith. Around this time he, along with other male members of his family, was hired to assist in searching for buried treasure. 2020-12-28. [111] By then, however, some of Smith's treasure-seeking company had heard that Smith was successful in obtaining the plates, and they wanted what they believed was their cut of the profits from what they saw as part of their joint venture. Joseph had been caring for the sick infant when he was taken, and the baby was left alone with the door letting the cold in. [108] Leaving Emma in the wagon, where she knelt in prayer,[109] he reportedly walked to the site of the golden plates, retrieved them, and hid them in a fallen tree-top on or near the hill. They had three children. They had three children. [43] One of Smith's acquaintances said that Smith had caught "a spark of Methodism" at camp meetings "away down in the woods, on the Vienna road. Don Carlos has six known descendants. Joseph Smith, Sr. Ancestry of Joseph Smith. Born in Sharon, Vermont, his parents, Joseph and Lucy Smith, operated a farm. All charts include source citations for ancestors in the charts. 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