Smith (family)

Smith (family)

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The Smith Family is the name of a U.S. family with many members prominent in religion and politics. Many individuals in this particular family were also noted religious leaders; this article focuses only on those with political and civic activity. This political family's most famous member was Joseph Smith, Jr.

Members

Joseph Smith, Jr.

1805 - 1844
*Mayor of Nauvoo, Illinois 1842-44. Candidate for President of the United States 1844.
*Brother of William B. Smith
*Father of Joseph Smith III
*Uncle of Joseph F. Smith
*1st Cousin of George Albert Smith.
*1st Cousin of Silas Sanford Smith
*1st Cousin of Jesse Nathaniel Smith
*1st Cousin once removed of John Henry Smith
*6th Cousin of Brigham Young //Reference: Saviors on Mount Zion: Chapter 21: "A RACE OF RELIGIOUS LEADERS" Archibald F. Bennett
*Married: Emma Hale in 1827.

William B. Smith

*13 Mar 1811 - 13 Nov 1894
*Illinois State Legislature 1842
*Brother of Joseph Smith, Jr.
*Uncle of Joseph Smith III
*Uncle of Joseph F. Smith,
*1st Cousin of George Albert Smith.
*1st Cousin of Silas Sanford Smith
*1st Cousin of Jesse Nathaniel Smith
*1st Cousin once removed of John Henry Smith
*Married: Caroline Amanda Grant, sister of Jedidiah Morgan Grant and Roxie Ann Grant
*Married: Roxie Ann Grant after her sister Caroline’s death.

Joseph Smith III

*Born: 6 November 1832 - 10 December 1914
*Prophet-President of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (now Community of Christ) for 54 years.
*Founder of Lamoni, Iowa.
*Founder of Graceland University.
*Three sons succeeded him as Prophet-President of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints - Frederick Madison Smith, Israel A. Smith and W. Wallace Smith.
*Son of Joseph Smith, Jr.
*Nephew of Hyrum Smith
*1st cousin of Joseph F. Smith
*Married: Emmeline Griswold in 1854 and had five children.
*Married: Bertha Madison in 1869, after the death of Emmeline Griswold, and had nine children.
*Married: Ada Clark in 1898, after the death of Bertha Madison, and had three children.

Joseph F. Smith

*Born: 13 Nov 1838 - 19 Nov 1918
*Utah Territorial Legislature 1865-70, 1872, 1874, 1880, 1882
*Nephew of Joseph Smith, Jr.
*Son of Hyrum Smith & Mary Fielding (who remarried to Heber C. Kimball after Hyrum’s death).
*1st Cousin of Joseph Smith III
*1st Cousin once removed of George Albert Smith
*1st Cousin once removed of Silas Sanford Smith
*1st Cousin once removed of Jesse Nathaniel Smith
*2nd Cousin of John Henry Smith

Israel A. Smith

*Born: 2 February 1876 – 14 June 1958
*Iowa State Legislature 1911-1913
*Elected as delegate to the Missouri Constitutional Convention, 1943-1944
*Prophet-President of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1946-1958
*Son of Joseph Smith III
*Grandson of Joseph Smith, Jr.
*Great-nephew of Hyrum Smith.
*Married: Nina Grenawalt in 1908, and had two sons.


=George Albert Smith=

*Born: 26 Jun 1817 - 1 Sep 1875
*Utah Territorial Legislature 1851, 1867; Utah Territorial Supreme Court 1855, Utah Territory delegate to U.S. Congress 1856
*Father of John Henry Smith
*1st Cousin of Joseph Smith, Jr.
*1st Cousin of William B. Smith
*1st Cousin of Silas Sanford Smith
*1st Cousin of Jesse Nathaniel Smith
*1st Cousin once removed of Joseph Smith III
*1st Cousin once removed of Joseph F. Smith

John Henry Smith

*18 Sep 1848 - 13 Oct 1911
*Utah Territorial Legislature 1882
*Son of George Albert Smith
*1st Cousin once removed of Joseph Smith Jr.
*1st Cousin once removed of William B. Smith
*1st Cousin once removed of Silas Sanford Smith
*1st Cousin once removed of Jesse Nathaniel Smith
*2nd Cousin of Joseph Smith III
*2nd Cousin of Joseph F. Smith

ilas Sanford Smith

*26 Oct 1830 - 11 Oct 1910
*Utah Territorial Legislature 1859, 69, 78
*Brother of Jesse Nathaniel Smith
*1st Cousin of Joseph Smith, Jr.
*1st Cousin of William B. Smith
*1st Cousin of George Albert Smith
*1st Cousin, once removed of Joseph F. Smith
*1st Cousin, once removed of Joseph Smith III
*1st Cousin once removed of John Henry Smith
*4th great uncle of Jeff Groscost
*

Jesse Nathaniel Smith

*Usually called Jesse N. Smith
*2 Dec 1834 - 5 Jun 1906
*Mayor of Parowan, Utah 1859; Arizona Territorial Legislature 19th Session
*Brother of Silas Samford Smith
*1st Cousin of Joseph Smith, Jr.
*1st Cousin of William B. Smith
*1st Cousin of George Albert Smith
*1st Cousin, once removed of Joseph F. Smith
*1st Cousin once removed of John Henry Smith
*3rd Great grandfather of Jeff Groscost
*His daughter, Margareth Fife Smith married Nephi Jensen
*His daughter, Adelaide Smith married Joseph Fish
*His daughter, Leah, married John Hunt Udall, mayor of Phoenix, AZ
*His son Asahel Henry Smith married Pauline Udall, daughter of David King Udall
*Father of Priscilla Smith married to Augusta Gibbons and at his death to her 2nd cousin Jesse Moroni Smith

Joseph Fish

27 Jun 1840 - 10 Dec 1926
*Arizona Territorial Legislature 18th session
*Married Adelaide Smith, daughter of Jesse Nathaniel Smith

Nephi Jensen

*16 Feb 1876 - 2 Sep 1955
*Utah State Legislature 1906-08
*Married Margareth Fife Smith daughter of Jesse Nathaniel Smith

Jeff Groscost

* Died November 3, 2006
*Arizona State Legislature 1992-2000 (speaker in 1998)
*3rd Great grandson of Jesse Nathaniel Smith
*4th Great nephew (can also be stated as 3rd great grand nephew) of Silas Samford Smith

ee also

*List of descendants of Joseph Smith, Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith
*Latter Day Saint political history


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