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MACK was born on 28 NOV 1797 in Surry, Cheshire County, New Hampshire.
(SOURCE: FHL Film: 1001017; Index to births, early to 1900 New Hampshire. Registrar
of Vital Statistics.) Parents: Captain
Solomon MACK II and Esther HAYWARD. Caroline E. MACK was born on 16 OCT 1845 in Pecatonica, Winnebago County, Illinois. She died on 29 AUG 1929. Parents: Stephen MACK and Hononegah. Chilion MACK was born on 26 JUL 1802 in Gilsum, Cheshire County, New Hampshire. (SOURCE: FHL Film: 1001017; Index to births, early to 1900 New Hampshire. Registrar of Vital Statistics.) Parents: Captain Solomon MACK II and Esther HAYWARD. Damaris MACK was born date unknown. Parents: Orlando MACK and Damaris DUTTON. Daniel MACK was born in 1770 in Gilsum, Cheshire County, New Hampshire. Parents: Solomon MACK and Lydia GATES. Daniel Cary MACK was born date unknown. Parents: Orlando MACK and Damaris DUTTON. Deborah MACK was born on 11 OCT 1706 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. She died on 4 FEB 1776 at Hadlyme, New London County, Connecticut. Parents: John MACK and Sarah BAGLEY. Spouse: Theophilus LORD. Theophilus LORD and Deborah MACK were married on 8 MAY 1728 in Connecticut. Deborah MACK was born on 16 SEP 1730 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. Parents: Ebenezer MACK and Hannah HUNTLEY. Dennis MACK was born on 18 OCT 1809 in Gilsum, Cheshire County, New Hampshire. (SOURCE: FHL Film: 1001017; Index to births, early to 1900 New Hampshire. Registrar of Vital Statistics.) He died on 4 AUG 1812 at Gilsum, Cheshire County, New Hampshire. (SOURCE: FHL Film: 1001017; Index to births, early to 1900 New Hampshire. Registrar of Vital Statistics.) Parents: Captain Solomon MACK II and Esther HAYWARD. Dorothy MACK was born on 11 DEC 1729 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. Parents: John MACK and Love BENNETT. Ebenezer MACK was born on 8 DEC 1697 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. He died in 1777 at Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. Parents: John MACK and Sarah BAGLEY. Spouse: Hannah HUNTLEY. Ebenezer MACK and Hannah HUNTLEY were married on 30 APR 1728 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. Children were: Phebe MACK, Deborah MACK, Solomon MACK, Hannah MACK, Samuel MACK, Hepsibeth MACK, Stephen MACK, Elisha MACK, Azubah MACK. Ebenezer MACK was born on 24 FEB 1716 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. (SOURCE: FHL Film: 0002934, Barbour collection : Connecticut vital records prior to 1850 Barbour, Lucius B. (Lucius Barnes) , 1878-1934.) He died on 8 MAY 1792 at Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. Parents: John MACK and Love BENNETT. Spouse: Abigail DAVIS. Ebenezer MACK and Abigail DAVIS were married on 23 DEC 1736 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. Children were: Abigail MACK. Edward MACK was born on 3 DEC 1841 in Pecatonica, Winnebago County, Illinois. Parents: Stephen MACK and Hononegah. Elinda/Elaine MACK was born on 10 OCT 1786 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. Parents: Ezra MACK and Lydia GIBBS. Spouse: Horace Dewitt GIBBS. Horace Dewitt GIBBS and Elinda/Elaine MACK were married date unknown. Children were: Laura Ann GIBBS, Martha Eliza GIBBS. Elisha MACK was born about 1727 in Hebron, Tolland County, Connecticut. Parents: Josiah MACK and Abigail PETERSON. Elisha MACK was born on 16 JUL 1745 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. He died on 15 NOV 1820 at Washington D.C.. Parents: Ebenezer MACK and Hannah HUNTLEY. Spouse: Diadema RATHBURN. Elisha MACK and Diadema RATHBURN were married about 1765. Children were: Thankful MACK. Elizabeth MACK was born on 28 OCT 1686 in Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Middlesex County, Massachusetts to 1850 for Concord.) She died on 15 MAR 1750 at Hebron, Tolland County, Connecticut. Parents: John MACK and Sarah BAGLEY. Spouse: Edward SAWYER. Edward SAWYER and Elizabeth MACK were married on 3 JUL 1707 in Hebron, Tolland County, Connecticut. Children were: John SAWYER, Jonathan SAWYER, Edward SAWYER, Thomas SAWYER, Elizabeth SAWYER, Mary SAWYER, Isaac SAWYER, Lydia SAWYER, Joseph SAWYER, Hannah SAWYER, Phebe SAWYER. Elizabeth MACK was born on 4 FEB 1711/12 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. She died on 24 DEC 1729 at Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. Parents: John MACK and Love BENNETT. Elizabeth MACK was born on 21 APR 1734 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. Parents: John MACK and Abigail FOX. Esther MACK was born on 30 NOV 1725 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. Parents: John MACK and Love BENNETT. Esther MACK was born on 2 APR 1815 in Gilsum, Cheshire County, New Hampshire. (SOURCE: FHL Film: 1001017; Index to births, early to 1900 New Hampshire. Registrar of Vital Statistics.) Parents: Captain Solomon MACK II and Esther HAYWARD. Ezra MACK was born on 1 APR 1722 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. He died on 21 AUG 1770 at Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. Parents: John MACK and Love BENNETT. Spouse: Lydia GIBBS. Ezra MACK and Lydia GIBBS were married in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. Children were: Elinda/Elaine MACK. Fanny MACK was born on 18 SEP 1789 in Gilsum, Cheshire County, New Hampshire. (SOURCE: FHL Film: 1001017; Index to births, early to 1900 New Hampshire. Registrar of Vital Statistics.) Parents: Stephen MACK and Temperance BOND. Flora MACK was born about 1840 in Massachusetts. Spouse: Alexander C. ORDWAY. Alexander C. ORDWAY and Flora MACK were married on 30 MAR 1855 in Massachusetts. Children were: Charles ORDWAY. Hannah MACK was born on 15 OCT 1734 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. Parents: Ebenezer MACK and Hannah HUNTLEY. Harriet MACK was born on 28 MAY 1800 in Tunbridge, Orange County, Vermont. (SOURCE: FHL Film: 0027619; General index to vital records of Vermont, early to 1870 Vermont. Secretary of State.) Parents: Stephen MACK and Temperance BOND. Henry Clay MACK was born on 1 DEC 1839 in Pecatonica, Winnebago County, Illinois. He died on 1 JAN 1849 at Pecatonica, Winnebago County, Illinois. Parents: Stephen MACK and Hononegah. Hepsibeth MACK was born on 7 MAY 1740 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. Parents: Ebenezer MACK and Hannah HUNTLEY. Hezekiah MACK was born on 20 JAN 1727/28 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. Parents: John MACK and Love BENNETT. Jason MACK was born in 1760 in Marlow, Cheshire County, New Hampshire. Parents: Solomon MACK and Lydia GATES. Jemima MACK was born date unknown. Parents: Orlando MACK and Damaris DUTTON. Johanna (Joana) MACK was born on 17 SEP 1703 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. Parents: John MACK and Sarah BAGLEY. Spouse: Richard BOOGE. Richard BOOGE and Johanna (Joana) MACK were married on 12 MAR 1730/31 in Connecticut. John MACK was born on 16 MAR 1653 in Inverness, Scotland. He signed a will on 5 JAN 1721 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. He died on 24 FEB 1721 at Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. He will was proved on 28 MAR 1721 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. John came from Scotland, 1669, and settled in Salisbury and Concord, Massachusetts and Lyme, Connecticut. Spouse: Sarah BAGLEY. John MACK and Sarah BAGLEY were married on 5 APR 1681 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Children were: John MACK, Sarah MACK, Elizabeth MACK, Lydia MACK, Josiah MACK, Orlando MACK, Jonathan MACK, Ebenezer MACK, Marah (Mary) MACK, Rebecca MACK, Johanna (Joana) MACK, Deborah MACK. John MACK was born on 29 APR 1682 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died on 29 MAY 1734 at Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. SOURCES: (1). Wm Sterling of Haverhill, MA & of Lyme, CT, and his descendents; (2). Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury & John Sargent Pillsbury, by Mary Lovering Holman, 1938. Parents: John MACK and Sarah BAGLEY. Spouse: Love BENNETT. John MACK and Love BENNETT were married on 13 JAN 1703/4 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. Children were: Sarah MACK, Phebe MACK, Elizabeth MACK, Patience MACK, Ebenezer MACK, Lydia MACK, John MACK, Ezra MACK, Nehemiah MACK, Esther MACK, Hezekiah MACK, Dorothy MACK. Spouse: Abigail FOX. John MACK and Abigail FOX were married on 4 MAY 1733 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. Children were: Elizabeth MACK. John MACK was born on 26 APR 1720 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. He died on 2 OCT 1755 at Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. Parents: John MACK and Love BENNETT. Spouse: Mehetable SMITH. John MACK and Mehetable SMITH were married on 20 FEB 1740/41 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. John Mudget MACK was born on 4 DEC 1802 in Tunbridge, Orange County, Vermont. (SOURCE: FHL Film: 0027619; General index to vital records of Vermont, early to 1870 Vermont. Secretary of State.) Parents: Stephen MACK and Temperance BOND. Jonathan MACK was born on 21 FEB 1695 in Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Middlesex County, Massachusetts to 1850 for Concord.) He died on 19 DEC 1768. Parents: John MACK and Sarah BAGLEY. Spouse: Sarah BENNETT. Jonathan MACK and Sarah BENNETT were married on 24 AUG 1728 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Josiah MACK was born on 16 DEC 1691 in Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Middlesex County, Massachusetts to 1850 for Concord.) He died on 21 NOV 1769 at Hebron, Tolland County, Connecticut. Alternate dates and places: Birth: December 16, 1693, Concord Middlesex, Conn. Parents: John MACK and Sarah BAGLEY. Spouse: Abigail PETERSON. Josiah MACK and Abigail PETERSON were married on 29 JAN 1720 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. Children were: Mary MACK, Josiah John MACK, Elisha MACK. Spouse: Elizabeth BOWLEY. Josiah MACK and Elizabeth BOWLEY were married in JUL 1767. Josiah John MACK was born on 19 AUG 1721 in Hebron, Tolland County, Connecticut. He died on 24 MAY 1812. Married: April 21 1741 Parents: Josiah MACK and Abigail PETERSON. Katharine MACK was born date unknown. Parents: Orlando MACK and Damaris DUTTON. Louisa I. MACK was born on 6 MAY 1836 in Pecatonica, Winnebago County, Illinois. Parents: Stephen MACK and Hononegah. Lovina MACK was born in 1762 in Marlow, Cheshire County, New Hampshire. She died in 1794 at Gilsum, Cheshire County, New Hampshire. Parents: Solomon MACK and Lydia GATES. Spouse: Joseph TUTTLE. Joseph TUTTLE and Lovina MACK were married on 31 JAN 1780. Lovina MACK was born on 13 SEP 1795 in Tunbridge, Orange County, Vermont. (SOURCE: FHL Film: 0027619; General index to vital records of Vermont, early to 1870 Vermont. Secretary of State.) She died on 6 JAN 1874. Parents: Stephen MACK and Temperance BOND. Lovisa MACK was born in 1761 in Marlow, Cheshire County, New Hampshire. She died in 1794 at Gilsum, Cheshire County, New Hampshire. Parents: Solomon MACK and Lydia GATES.  Lucy MACK
was born on 8 JUL 1775 in Gilsum, Cheshire County, New Hampshire.
She was given a Patriartcal Blessing on 9 DEC 1834 in Kirtland, Lake County,
Ohio. Officator: Joseph Smith, Sr. She died on 14 MAY 1856 at Nauvoo,
Hancock County, Illinois. John Mack a Scotch immigrant of 1860 came
to Connecticut from Scotland. John Mack had a son named Ebenezer who was born
in Lyme, Connecticut, 8 Dec 1697. Ebenezer had a son named Solomon, born at Lyme,
Conn. 15 Sep 1732. After the Revolutionary war Solomon moved to Gilsum, NH where
his daughter Lucy was born. About 1795 she went to Tunbridge, Vermont to visit
her brother Stephen, There she met Joseph Smith. Lucy's mother was Lydia Gates
Mack.
Places of Residence: Palmyra, Wayne County, New York Kirtland, Ohio Nauvoo, Hancock, Ill Comments: Mack, Lucy (Female)Lucy spent some time with relatives at Tunbridge, Vermont. Met and married Joseph Smith, 1796. Given wedding present of $1,000. Moved to Randolph to open store, 1802. Loss of property due to sepculation in China trade. Began to attend Methodist meetings. Dreams. Moved to Royalton. Moved to Sharon, Vermont. Rented farm. Moved back to Tunbridge, C. 1807. Moved to Royalton again. Husband's vision. Moved to Lebanon, New Hampshire. Illness of son Joseph. Moved to Norwich, Vermont. Moved to Palmyra, New York. Account of trip there. Son Joseph's religious experiences. Death of son Alvin, 1824. Lost farm. Martin Harris and wife. Lyman and Oliver Cowdery. Experiences with printing of Book of Mormon. Organization of Church, 1830. Moved to Waterloo, New York. Account oftrip to Kirtland, Ohio, where family removed, 1831. Settled on farm purchased by son for the Church. Visited her brother in Detroit. Raised means to complete schoolhouse at Kirtland. Circumstances leading to building of Kirtland Temple. Division in the Church. Persecution. Moved to Caldwell County, Missouri. Troubles there. To Quincy, Illinois, 1839. Moved to Commerce, 1839. Illness and death of husband, 1840. Assassination of sons Joseph and Hyrum, 1844. The Twelve take charge of Church. Son William returned to Nauvoo and was ordained a patriarch of the Church, 1845. Includes some extracts from Joseph Smith's history and other materials published in "Times and Seasons". Work is as much an autobiography of Lucy as it is a biography of Joseph. Cites also some letters and other written materials as well as reports of dreams, visions, conversations, etc. Comments: #21. Lucy was the mother of Joseph Smith the Prophet. Lucy was the youngest of eight children, four of whom were girls. Her father, Solomon Mack, had just attained his majority when the war between France and England, which grew out of disputed North American territory, was proclaimed. He entered the British army, and had two teams in the service of King George II., employed in carrying General Abercrombie's baggage, and was present in 1758, at the engagement on the west side of Lake George. He was engaged more or less in military pursuits until 1759, when he was discharged, and married an accomplished school teacher, Lydia Gates, the mother of the subject of this memoir. She was the daughter of Nathan Gates, a wealthy man, living in East Haddam, Conn. She was of a truly pious disposition, and had an excellent education, which peculiarly fitted her for the duties of a preceptress to her children, especially at a period when schools were rarities in the half cleared and thinly settled districts. Lucy profited by the talents and virtues of her mother. Lucy and Joseph received from her brother, Stephen Mack, and John Mudget, his partner, in business, a marriage present of $1,000. Her husband owned a good farm at Tunbridge, on which they settled. The fruits of this marriage were seven sons and three daughters. In 1802, Lucy Smith, with her husband, moved to Randolph, Vermont, where they opened a mercantile establishment. Mr. Smith here embarked in an adventure of gensang, to China, but was robbed of the proceeds, and was much involved thereby. To liquidate his debts, he had to sell his farm at Tunbridge, to which he had then returned, and to use his wife's marriage present, which till then had remained untouched. From Tunbridge they removed to Royalton. They remained there a few months, and then went to reside at Sharon, Windsor county, where Joseph the Prophet was born. They again returned to Tunbridge and Royalton successively, but, in 1811, their circumstances having much improved, they quitted Vermont for Lebanon, in New Hampshire. Here their children were all seized with the typhus fever, though none fatally, and Jospeh was afflicted with a fever sore. When health was restored to the family their circumstances were very low, and they returned to Vermont, and began to farm in Norwich. The first two years the crops failed, and the third the frost destroyed them, which determined Mr. Smith to remore to the state of New York. His wife and family did not remove until he had made preparations for them in Palmyra. Here the whole family set themselves industriously to repair their losses. Mr. Smith and his sons to farming, and Mrs. Smith to painting oil cloth coverings for tables, and were so prospered that in two years. Note 2: Smith, Lucy, mother of Joseph Smith the Prophet, was born July 8, 1776, at Gilsum, Cheshire county, New Hampshire, the daughter of Solomon Mack and Lydia Gates. Lucy was the youngest of eight children, four of whom were girls. Her father, Solomon Mack, had just attained his majority when the war between France and England, which grew out of disputed North American territory, was proclaimed. He entered the British army, and had two teams in the service of King George II., employed in carrying General Abercrombie's baggage, and was present in 1758, at the engagement on the west side of Lake George. He was engaged more or less in military pursuits until 1759, when he was discharged, and married an accomplished school teacher, Lydia Gates, the mother of the subject of this memoir. She was the daughter of Nathan Gates, a wealthy man, living in East Haddam, Conn. She was of a truly pious disposition, and had an excellent education, which peculiarly fitted her for the duties of a preceptress to her children, especially at a period when schools were rarities in the half cleared and thinly settled districts. Lucy profited by the talents and virtues of her mother. Jan. 24, 1796, she was married to Joseph Smith, and received from her brother, Stephen Mack, and John Mudget, his partner, in business, a marriage present of $1,000. Her husband owned a good farm at Tunbridge, on which they settled. The fruits of this marriage were seven sons—Alvin, Hyrum, Joseph, Samuel H., Ephraim, William and Don Carlos: and three daughters—Sophrona, Catherine and Lucy. In 1802, Lucy Smith, with her husband, moved to Randolph, Vermont, where they opened a mercantile establishment. Mr. Smith here embarked in an adventure of gensang, to China, but was robbed of the proceeds, and was much involved thereby. To liquidate his debts, he had to sell his farm at Tunbridge, to which he had then returned, and to use his wife's marriage present, which till then had remained untouched. From Tunbridge they removed to Royalton. They remained there a few months, and then went to reside at Sharon, Windsor county, where Joseph the Prophet was born. They again returned to Tunbridge and Royalton successively, but, in 1811, their circumstances having much improved, they quitted Vermont for Lebanon, in New Hampshire. Here their children were all seized with the typhus fever, though none fatally, and Joseph was afflicted with a fever sore. When health was restored to the family their circumstances were very low, and they returned to Vermont, and began to farm in Norwich. The first two years the crops failed, and the third the frost destroyed them, which determined Mr. Smith to remove to the State of New York. His wife and family did not remove until he had made preparations for them in Palmyra. Here the whole family set themselves industriously to repair their losses, Mr. Smith and his sons to farming, and Mrs. Smith to painting oil cloth coverings for tables, and were so prospered that in two years they were again comfortably situated. After four years had elapsed, they removed to Manchester. In the alternate scenes of adversity and prosperity, the subject of religion was a constant theme with both Mr. and Mrs. Smith, though the former never subscribed to any particular sect. Both were occasionally favored of the Lord with dreams or visions of the approaching work which he was about to commence on the earth, which prepared them for the mission of their son Joseph, and the important part they were destined to take in it. Lucy Smith and several of her children joined the Presbyterian body, in the year 1819, but after Joseph had received the first visitation of the angel, and had communicated the matter to his parents, she manifested intense interest in it, and from that time her history became identified with the mission of her son. She and her husband were baptized in April, 1830, and she removed to Kirtland, Ohio, in 1831, with the first company of Saints, where she rejoined her husband who had previously gone there in company with his son Joseph. Bro. Smith was several times torn from his wife by the enemies of the Saints, and unjustly imprisoned, but she manifested on all such occasions a calm assurance that all would end well. In 1838, all the family set out for Far West, Mo., a tedious and unpleasant journey, mostly through an unsettled country. They remained in Missouri until the extermination of the Saints from the State, participating in their numerous trials. On the occasion of the last arrest of her sons Joseph and Hyrum in that State, by the mob, in October, 1838, and when a court martial had decided to shoot them and others, she and her husband could distinctly hear the horrid yellings of the mob, which was encamped at a short distance from their house. Several guns were fired, and the heart-broken parents supposed the bloody work was accomplished. Mother Smith thus describes these moments: "Mr. Smith, folding his arms tight across his heart, cried out, 'Oh, my God! my God! they have killed my son! they have murdered him! and I must die, for I cannot live without him!' I had no word of consolation to give him, for my heart was broken within me; my agony was unutterable. I assisted him to the bed, and he fell back upon it helpless as a child, for he had not strength to stand upon his feet. The shrieking continued; no tongue can describe the sound which was conveyed to our ears; no heart can imagine the sensations of our breasts, as we listened to those awful screams. Had the army been composed of so many blood-hounds, wolves and panthers, they could not have made a sound more terrible." Joseph and Hyrum were not shot at that time, but were carried to Richmond, by way of Independence, and thence to Liberty. At their departure from Far West, the heart-stricken mother pressed through the crowd to the wagon containing her sons, exclaiming: "I am the mother of the Prophet; is there not a gentleman here, who will assist me to that wagon, that I may take a last look at my children, and speak to them once more before I die?" With her daughter Lucy, she gained the wagon, and grasped Joseph's hand, which was thrust between the cover and the wag-on-bed, but he spoke not to her until she said: "Joseph, do speak to your poor mother once more, I cannot bear to go till I hear your voice." At this he sobbed out: "God bless you, mother;" and while his sister Lucy was pressing a kiss on his hand, the wagon dashed off. Mourning and lamentation now filled the old lady's breast, "but," says she, "in the midst of it I found consolation that surpassed all earthly comfort. I was filled with the Spirit of God." Shortly after this, Bro. Smith removed his family to Quincy, Illinois, to which place most of the Saints had previously fled, and in common with them suffered the hardships and privations which characterized the extermination from Missouri. From Quincy the family removed to Commerce (Nauvoo), where Bro. Smith, after blessing his children individually, closed his earthly career Sept. 14, 1840. Mother Smith was thus left a widow, worn out with toil and sorrow, her house having been filled with sick like a hospital, from the time of the expulsion from Missouri. Many of the sick owed the preservation of their lives to her motherly care, attention and skill, in nursing them, which she did without pecuniary consideration and the extent of which can only be appreciated by those who are personally acquainted with the dreadful scenes of sickness and distress which followed, in consequence of the Missouri expulsion. Aug. 7, 1841, she was called upon to part with her youngest son, Don Carlos, a promising young man who died suddenly in Nauvoo. In 1843 she took up her residence with her son Joseph, and was shortly afterwards taken very sick, and brought nigh to death. She had scarcely recovered when she was called to suffer almost overwhelming grief for the assassination of her sons Joseph and Hyrum in June, 1844. When she was permitted to see the corpses of her murdered sons, her sorrow knew no bounds. "I was," she says, "swallowed up in the depths of my afflictions; and though my soul was filled with horror past imagination, yet I was dumb, until I arose again to contemplate the spectacle before me. Oh! at that moment how my mind flew through every scene of sorrow and distress which we had passed together, in which they had shown the innocence and sympathy which filled their guileless hearts. As I looked upon their peaceful, smiling countenances, I seemed almost to hear them say, 'Mother, weep not for us, we have overcome the world by love; we carried to them the gospel, that their souls might be saved; they slew us for our testimony, and thus placed us beyond their power; their ascendancy is for a moment, ours is an eternal triumph.'" As if the blow had not been sufficient to crush a mother's heart, Samuel Harrison Smith, in escaping from the murderers of his brothers, overheated himself, which brought on a fever that terminated fatally, July 30, 1844. Of the six sons which she had reared to manhood, Mother Smith now had but one (William) left, and he was at the time of the martyrdom at a distance from Nauvoo. But recovering somewhat from the effect of her affliction, she composed a very interesting little work entitled "Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet and his Progenetors for many Generations," which was published in England some years afterwards, and which at the present time is being reprinted in serial form in the "Improvement Era." At the general conference of the Church held in Nauvoo, in October, 1845, Mother Smith addressed the Saints. She reviewed the scenes through which her son and the Church had passed and exhorted parents to exercise a proper care over the welfare of their children. She expressed her intention to accompany the Saints into the wilderness, and requested that her bones, after her death, should be brought back and be deposited in Nauvoo with her husband's, which Pres. Brigham Young, and the whole conference, by vote, promised should be done. Mother Smith, however, never came to Utah. From the time of the removal of the Church to the Rocky Mountains until her death, which occurred in Nauvoo, Ill., May 5, 1855, she mostly resided with her youngest daughter, Lucy Miliken, excepting the last two years, when she resided with her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Emma Bidamon, widow of her son Joseph. SOURCES: (1). "History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Period I"., History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet by Himself, Volume I. Published by the Church, The Deseret Book Company, SLC 1946; (2). Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996, Family History Library, 35 North West Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150; (3). "History of Joseph Smith By His Mother", Edited by Scot Facer Proctor & Maurine Jensen Proctor, 1996 Bookcraft, Salt Lake City, Utah. ISBN I-57008-267-7; (4). "LDS Family History Suite", The LDS Vital Records Library. Parents: Solomon MACK and Lydia GATES. Spouse: Joseph SMITH Sr.. Joseph SMITH Sr. and Lucy MACK were married on 24 JAN 1796 in Tunbridge, Orange County, Vermont. Children were: Infant SMITH, Alvin SMITH, Hyrum SMITH, Sophronia SMITH, Joseph SMITH Jr., Samuel Harrison SMITH V, Ephraim SMITH, William SMITH, Katherine SMITH, Don Carlos SMITH, Lucy SMITH. Lucy (Louise) MACK was born date unknown. Parents: Orlando MACK and Damaris DUTTON. Lydia MACK was born on 28 MAY 1689 in Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Middlesex County, Massachusetts to 1850 for Concord.) She died in FEB 1715/16 at Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. Parents: John MACK and Sarah BAGLEY. Spouse: Peter (Pearson) PERSON. Peter (Pearson) PERSON and Lydia MACK were married in 1709 in Connecticut. Lydia MACK was born on 4 JUN 1718 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. Parents: John MACK and Love BENNETT. Spouse: John WOOD. John WOOD and Lydia MACK were married on 8 FEB 1736/37 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. Lydia MACK was born in 1764 in Marlow, Cheshire County, New Hampshire. She died on 8 JUL 1826 at Gilsum, Cheshire County, New Hampshire. Parents: Solomon MACK and Lydia GATES. Spouse: Samuel BILL. Samuel BILL and Lydia MACK were married in 1786. Marah (Mary) MACK was born on 10 NOV 1699 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. Parents: John MACK and Sarah BAGLEY. Spouse: John PETERS. John PETERS and Marah (Mary) MACK were married on 3 APR 1717 in Hebron, Tolland County, Connecticut.
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