Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• Bopæl: 1910, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
• Bopæl: 1920, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
• Bopæl: 1930, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
• Bopæl: 1935, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
• Bopæl: 1940, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA

Alfred blev gift med Mary Sophronia Smith den 17 dec. 1901 i Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA. Mary (datter af Joseph Fielding Smith og Julina Lambson) blev født den 7 okt. 1869 i Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA; døde den 5 jan. 1948 i Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA; blev begravet den 9 jan. 1948 i Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• Bopæl: 1900, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA

Andreas blev gift med Clara Mathilda Stillman den 29 sep. 1866 i Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA. Clara blev født den 16 aug. 1832 i Linköpings domkyrkoförsamling, Östergötland, Sweden; døde den 6 okt. 1909 i Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• Bopæl: 1880, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
• Bopæl: 1900, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
• Bopæl: 1910, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
• Bopæl: 1910, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA

Joseph blev gift med Julina Lambson den 5 maj 1866 i Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA. Julina (datter af Alfred Boaz Lambson og Melissa Jane Bigler) blev født den 18 jun. 1849 i Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA; døde den 10 jan. 1936 i Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• Bopæl: Utah, USA
• Bopæl: 1850, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
• Bopæl: 1860, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
• Bopæl: 1870, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
• Bopæl: 1880, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
• Bopæl: 1900, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
• Bopæl: 1910, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
• Bopæl: 1910, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
• Bopæl: 1920, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
• Bopæl: 1920, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
• Bopæl: 1930, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA

Peter blev gift med Ingrid Lena Johnsson den 29 jun. 1823 i Bäckebo, Kalmar, Sweden. Ingrid blev født den 22 mar. 1799 i Bäckebo, Kalmar, Sweden; døde den 5 nov. 1851. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Hyrum blev gift med Mary Fielding den 24 dec. 1837 i Kirtland, Lake, Ohio, USA. Mary blev født den 21 jul. 1801 i Honiden, Bedfordshire, England; blev døbt den 15 sep. 1801 i Saint Ives,Huntingdon,England; døde den 21 sep. 1852 i Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA; blev begravet den 23 sep. 1852 i Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Notater:

Raised on farm in England. Methodist. Educated, lovely singer. Tall, slender, brown eyes. Joined LDS church - Toronto. Taught school in Kirtland. 1st child was born while Hyrum in prison. Mary nearly died. Great faith - oxen stories. Harassed by mobs, Capt. Lot - Mary won.

Mary Fielding Smith Summary

Mary Fielding was born in Bedfordshire, England on July 21, 1801. She was the sixth child of John Fielding and Rachel Ibbotson, who were active in the growing Methodist movement in the area. In 1834, Mary emigrated to join her brother Joseph and her sister Mercy in Toronto, Canada.

The three Fielding siblings were introduced to the newly formed LDS religion in 1836, and were promptly baptized. Mary moved to Kirtland, Ohio the following year to join the larger body of the church. Well educated, Mary earned a living through teaching school, tutoring private pupils and acting as a governess. At the suggestion of the LDS prophet, Joseph Smith, Jr., the recently widowed Hyrum Smith courted Mary Fielding and the couple married on December 24, 1837. Mary accepted the responsibility of caring for and raising Hyrum's children from his first marriage, including the future church patriarch John Smith.

In late 1838 Hyrum was among the church leaders taken off to prison by the Missouri militia. At this time Smith was pregnant with her first child, Joseph Fielding Smith. Mary Smith went to Quincy, Illinois with the Saints, and after Hyrum escaped from jail, they moved to Nauvoo. Their second child, Martha, was born in Illinois.

After Hyrum was murdered in 1844, Mary Smith choose to follow the direction of Brigham Young and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. She and her family were among the poorer saints driven out of Nauvoo in the fall of 1846, who experienced the incident later known as the miracle of the quails. She went to Winter Quarters and then on the Salt Lake City.

Mary Fielding Smith died in Salt Lake City, Utah at the home of her second husband Heber C. Kimball, on September 21, 1852 apparently of pneumonia. Although she was widely known and respected during her lifetime, her son, LDS Church President Joseph F. Smith, enhanced her reputation after her death as he presented her as a role model of courage and faithfulness in public addresses, sermons and articles.

One story recounts Smith's trip across the plains with Heber C. Kimball's company. One of the captains, Cornelius P. Lott, questioned her preparation and suggested she stay behind and wait for others to help her. He called her a burden to the whole company. In response, Mary "prophesied" that she would not only stay but would beat Lott to the Salt Lake Valley without any of his help. She reportedly arrived in the Valley one day before Lott.[1]

Marriage to Hyrum

In November, 1837, Mary was married to the Patriarch Hyrum Smith, his first wife, Jerusha Barden, having died previously.

5 step-children
Resourceful, courageous Mary found herself the mother of five step-children, and never did a girl assume motherhood better prepared for such heavy initial responsibilities than Mary Fielding Smith. All her qualities of resourcefulness and courage were to be tested to the uttermost. And it may be truly said that no trial, not even the supreme one of final integrity to the Truth, ever found her lacking courage and the power of right decision. She did not live in borrowed light. She held supremely the light within her own soul.

Missionaries to England

Just before her marriage, she was vitally interested in that [128] first mission that was taken by Heber C. Kimball to open the European country for the preaching of the gospel of Christ. Her brother Joseph was the companion of Brother Kimball, who planned to visit their brother, Rev. James Fielding, in Preston, where the English mission was opened. ¶ HIstory of Heber C. Kimball (3) Mary and her sister Mercy who had married the Prophet's friend and one-time secretary, Robert B. Thompson, accompanied the party to Fairport. We are told that Brigham Young, Levi Richards, with Brother Kimball's wife, Vilate, and Brother Greene's wife, Rhoda (who was the sister of Brigham Young), with Mary Fielding and Mercy Thompson, all accompanied Heber C. Kimball and Orson Hyde down the river to Fairport.

Gives Heber C. Kimball $5

As Brother Kimball was about to separate from this company, without a dollar in his pocket, and sick, yet not discouraged, Mary Fielding, with her characteristic modesty and the quiet generosity which was so much a part of her nature, stepped tip to him and put five dollars in his hand. It was a God-send and paid his and Brother Hyde's passage to Buffalo. From this time, Mary's history is merged in that of her greater husband, Hyrum Smith. She shared his trials, she sweetened his daily life with her wifely ministrations, and above all she relieved him of every anxiety connected with the care and rearing of his five motherless children. For the heart of her husband could safely trust in her.

Far West betrayal

On the first day of November, 1838, while she was in a delicate condition of health, indeed, thirteen days before her oldest child, Joseph Fielding, was born, she was informed that her husband had been betrayed by Col. George M. Hinkle into the hands of the mob at Far West, and on the day following they told her that she "had seen her husband for the last time."
Birth of Joseph F.

Liberty Jail

Her son Joseph Fielding Smith, our present President of the Church, was born to his tortured mother while under this black cloud of oppression. She lingered on that bed of affliction for four months, unable to rally from the blow which had been dealt her life-forces. Three months after, she was taken in a wagon on her sick bed to see her husband, then confined with the Prophet Joseph Smith as a prisoner in Liberty jail, Clay County, Mo.

Flee to Quincy

Still confined to her bed, she was driven in her wagon from Far West out of the state of Missouri, together with the rest of the "Mormon" refugees. After untold sorrows and pains, trials and afflictions, she, together with the little family which she held together with Spartan fortitude, reached Quincy, Ill., where she was at last joined by her loving husband on April 22, 1839. What a picture of persecution and human suffering is confined in that six months of separation. You who go quietly in and out of beautiful and safe homes, can you realize what this frail and loving mother in Israel endured during that soul-racking period? Oh, daughters of Zion, stop and reflect upon the foundation stones [129] laid for us by those heroic mothers who planted their feet with the blood of sacrifice and builded their walls in their own bones and bodies. What scenes float before the vision as these incidents unroll before our eyes. No wonder the Prophet asked to have the vision blotted out from his eyes.

To Nauvoo

In May, 1839, the Patriarch moved his family to Nauvoo, where Mary thereafter resided till the expulsion from Nauvoo. Some time after arriving in Nauvoo, Mary gave birth to her second and last child, Martha Ann, who is still living in Provo, and who is later spoken of in this sketch.

Penny Fund

In 1841, Mary set in motion the organization of a simple and modest fund which was called "The Sisters' Penny Subscription" for the purpose of buying nails and glass for the Nauvoo Temple. So quietly did this plan operate that only the briefest mention is made of it in the periodicals of the day; but it worked something of a financial miracle, for hundreds of dollars were thus collected. Initiative Who may say that this initiative on the part of Mary Fielding Smith was not productive of much of the later organized effort put forth by the women of the Church? The Relief Society was not then in operation; this fund was specifically directed for Temple purposes, and it accomplished its end. Woman power We who fancy that today sees the full flower of the powers and genius of woman for organized effort, would do well to study the annals of the earlier heroines of the Church who laid their foundation stones so deep and broad that it is given to us simply to build upon them as best we may. Heroic mother Think of this burdened woman, the mother of two children, the step-mother of four more, and the caretaker of all the poor unfortunates whom her tender-hearted husband brought constantly into her welcoming home-think of this delicately reared lady, herself frail but like sprung steel in composition, think of her-ye daughters of Zion, going about to gather in pennies from the women of Nauvoo to buy the glass and nails for that wondrous Temple in Nauvoo. Our teachers of today who go out from time to time ministering and teaching under the most comfortable modern conditions, can scarcely realize the struggles made in those early days by these heroic mothers in Israel. Agony of the martyrdom When the scenes and sufferings incident to the martyrdom fell upon the families of the Prophet Joseph Smith and his devoted brother Hyrum, who may tell the agony of suspense, the torture of fear which shook the breasts of the women who waited in vain for that release from prison, which had been miraculously given so often before. Few thought that the arrest would terminate fatally, for the Prophet had been so imprisoned and hauled into courts over forty times by his enemies. Yet this time, the Prince and powers of the air held sway and the blood of the martyrs cried from the ground of Illinois. Martyrdom tested Mary's commitment [130] Who can guess the gloom and misery which filled the home of Mary Fielding Smith, when her husband was brought cold in death to receive the last rites from his friends. But here and now was the supreme test of that majestic spirit of the martyred Patriarch's wife, Mary. Was she a true convert to the gospel as preached by Christ, and afterwards revealed again to the earth through

Alfred + Melissa Jane Bigler. Melissa blev født den 24 mar. 1825 i Shinston, Harrison, West Virginia, USA; døde den 26 okt. 1898 i Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]