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Joseph Smith

Birth

23 December 1805

Sharon, Windsor, Vermont

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Death

27 June 1844

Carthage, Hancock, Illinois

Alternative Names (Also Known As)

Joseph Smith Jr.

Parent Marriage

Joseph Smith to Lucy Mack

Date: 24 July 1796

Marriage Type: civil

Notes

Member of Anointed Quorum, admitted 5 May 1842 (Anderson/Bergera-AQ). Baptized 15 May 1829

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Baptism - 15 May 1829

Baptized 15 May 1829

Notes

Emma Hale - Civil Marriage - 18 January 1827

This marriage has 11 child(ren) in the database

Place: Bainbridge, Chenango, New York, USA

Fanny Alger - Sealed for Eternity - 1835

Place: Kirtland, Geauga, Ohio, USA

Lydia Kenyon - Sealed for Eternity - 1841

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA (UVA)

[Plural] marriage sealing to Joseph Smith, abt. 1841/1843 (Bergera, Cook).

Lucinda Pendleton - Sealed for Eternity - 1841

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA (UVA)

abt. 1841/1842; See Brown p.282 n.267; 1846-01-22 for SMINT

Sarah Rapson - Sealed for Eternity - 1841

[Plural] marriage sealing to Joseph Smith, abt. 1841/1843 (Bergera, Cook).

Jane Tibbets - Sealed for Eternity - 1841

[Plural] marriage sealing to Joseph Smith, Jr, before Smith's death, estimated abt. 1841-43 (Cook).

Louisa Beaman - Sealed for Eternity - 05 April 1841

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Joseph Bates Noble

Zina Diantha Huntington - Sealed for Eternity - 27 October 1841

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Dimmock Baker Huntington

Prescindia Lathrop Huntington - Sealed for Eternity - 11 December 1841

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Hannah Ann DuBois - Sealed for Time - 1842

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA (UVA)

abt. 1842/1843

Elizabeth Davis - Sealed for Eternity - 1842

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA (UVA)

About 1842; SMINT 1846-01-22

Aphia Woodman - Sealed for Eternity - 1842

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Heber Chase Kimball

Proxy: Gad Yale

[Plural] marriage sealing to Joseph Smith, Jr., abt. 1842/1843 (Cook).

Sarah Scott - Sealed for Time - 1842

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Delcena Diademia Johnson - Sealed for Time - 1842

Cook says probably prior to July 1842

Agnes Moulton Coolbrith - Sealed for Time - 06 January 1842

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Brigham Young

Mary Elizabeth Rollins - Sealed for Eternity - February 1842

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Brigham Young

Nauvoo Pologamy, p. 621

Sylvia Porter Sessions - Sealed for Eternity - 08 February 1842

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA

Officiator: Amasa Mason Lyman

SMINT 1844-09-19; SMINT 1846-01-26

Patty Bartlett Sessions - Sealed for Eternity - 09 March 1842

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Willard Richards

Marinda Nancy Johnson - Sealed for Eternity - April 1842

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Brigham Young

April or May 1843 Second Marriage in Nauvoo Temple 1846-01-11;

Sarah Marietta Kingsley - Sealed for Eternity - 29 June 1842

Officiator: Heber Chase Kimball

bef. 1842-06-29; 1846-01-15

Eliza Roxcy Snow - Sealed for Eternity - 29 June 1842

Officiator: Brigham Young

Desdemona Wadsworth Fullmer - Sealed for Eternity - 12 July 1842

Officiator: Brigham Young

Sarah Ann Whitney - Sealed for Eternity - 27 July 1842

Officiator: Newel Kimball Whitney

Martha McBride - Sealed for Eternity - August 1842

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Heber Chase Kimball

Hannah S Ells - Sealed for Time - 1843

[Plural] marriage for time to Joseph Smith, Jr., before Jul 1843, officiator's name not available (Cook)

Emily Dow Partridge - Sealed for Eternity - 04 March 1843

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Heber Chase Kimball

Proxy: Brigham Young

SMINT 1843-05-11/23; TMINT abt. 1844-11; FMINT 1846-01-14

Flora Anne Woodworth - Sealed for Time - 04 March 1843

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA (UVA)

prob. 1843-03-04

Eliza Maria Partridge - Sealed for Eternity - 08 March 1843

Officiator: Heber Chase Kimball

Almera Woodward Johnson - Sealed for Time - April 1843

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA

Officiator: Hyrum Smith

abt. April-June 1842

Phebe Watrous - Sealed for Eternity - May 1843

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Brigham Young

1843-05/06; 1846-01-17 [Plural] marriage sealing to Joseph Smith, Jr., May/June 1843, officiator not available (Bergera).

Helen Marr Kimball - Sealed for Eternity - May 1843

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Brigham Young

Proxy: Horace Kimball Whitney

SMINT 1846-02-04

Maria Lawrence - Sealed for Eternity - 11 May 1843

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Heber Chase Kimball

Proxy: Almon Whiting Babbitt

SMINT 1844-10-12; TMINT 1846-01-24

Sarah Lawrence - Sealed for Eternity - 11 May 1843

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Amasa Mason Lyman

SMINT 1844-10-12; TMINT 1846-01-26

Emma Hale - Sealed for Eternity - 28 May 1843

This marriage has 1 adoptee(s) in the database

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Olive Grey Frost - Sealed for Time - June 1843

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Hyrum Smith

abt summer 1843 334. [Plural] marriage for time to Joseph Smith, Jr., abt. Summer 1843, by Hyrum Smith[?] (Bergera, Cook).

Mary Ann Frost - Sealed for Time - 24 June 1843

Officiator: Heber Chase Kimball

The 1843 marriage is "probably" for time (Brown p. 246 n. 275); SMINT 1846-02-06

Mary Ann Frost - Sealed for Eternity - 24 June 1843

Officiator: Hyrum Smith

Melissa Lott - Sealed for Eternity - 20 September 1843

Officiator: Hyrum Smith

Fanny Young - Sealed for Time - 02 November 1843

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Brigham Young

Mary Huston - Sealed for Eternity - 1844

Place: Nauvoo Temple, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Amasa Mason Lyman

Proxy: Heber Chase Kimball

by 1844; SMINT 1846-02-03 Cook notes: “Mary Huston was very likely sealed for time and eternity to Joseph Smith Jr. during his life time (1842-1843).”

Nancy Maria Winchester - Sealed for Eternity - 1844

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Brigham Young

by 1844; SMINT 1844-10-10; TMINT 1846-02-03

Ruth Daggett Vose - Sealed for Time - February 1844

Officiator: Hyrum Smith

abt. 1844-02

Joseph Smith dies, 27 June 1844

Louisa Beaman - Sealed for Eternity - 19 September 1844

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Heber Chase Kimball

Proxy: Brigham Young

We have her name spelled "Beaman" for her marriage to 504; SMNT 1846-01-14

Sylvia Porter Sessions - Sealed for Eternity - 19 September 1844

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Proxy: Heber Chase Kimball

Eliza Maria Partridge - Sealed for Eternity - 28 September 1844

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Proxy: Amasa Mason Lyman

Nancy Maria Winchester - Sealed for Eternity - 10 October 1844

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Brigham Young

Proxy: Heber Chase Kimball

Repeat [plural] marriage sealing to Joseph Smith, Jr. (d), 10 Oct 1844, Heber Chase Kimball proxy, and [plural] marriage sealing for time to Heber Chase Kimball, 10 Oct 1844 (Cook)

Maria Lawrence - Sealed for Eternity - 12 October 1844

Divorce Date: 1845

Divorce Date, true:

Proxy: Brigham Young

separated or divorced from Brigham Young by 1845 (Cook).

Sarah Lawrence - Sealed for Eternity - 12 October 1844

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Amasa Mason Lyman

Proxy: Heber Chase Kimball

SMINT 1846-01-26

Martha McBride - Sealed for Eternity - 12 October 1844

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Proxy: Heber Chase Kimball

Olive Grey Frost - Sealed for Eternity - 07 November 1844

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Proxy: Brigham Young

Brown, p.286 n.334

Prescindia Lathrop Huntington - Sealed for Eternity - 1845

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA

See Brown, p. 285 n. 4

Rhoda Richards - Sealed for Eternity - 1845

Proxy: Brigham Young

Repeat [plural] marriage sealing to Joseph Smith, Jr. (d), Brigham Young proxy, abt. early 1845, and [plural] marriage sealing for time to Brigham Young, abt. early 1845 (Cook).

Sarah Ann Whitney - Sealed for Eternity - 17 March 1845

Officiator: Brigham Young

Proxy: Heber Chase Kimball

Marinda Nancy Johnson - Sealed for Eternity - 11 January 1846

Place: Nauvoo Temple, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Brigham Young

Proxy: Orson Hyde

Sarah Ann Whitney - Sealed for Eternity - 12 January 1846

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Brigham Young

Proxy: Heber Chase Kimball

Eliza Maria Partridge - Sealed for Eternity - 13 January 1846

Place: Nauvoo Temple, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Brigham Young

Proxy: Amasa Mason Lyman

Louisa Beaman - Sealed for Eternity - 14 January 1846

Place: Nauvoo Temple, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Heber Chase Kimball

Proxy: Brigham Young

Emily Dow Partridge - Sealed for Eternity - 14 January 1846

Place: Nauvoo Temple, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Heber Chase Kimball

Proxy: Brigham Young

Sarah Marietta Kingsley - Sealed for Time - 15 January 1846

Place: Nauvoo Temple, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Heber Chase Kimball

Proxy: John Smith

Lucy Walker - Sealed for Eternity - 15 January 1846

Place: Nauvoo Temple, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Brigham Young

Proxy: Heber Chase Kimball

Olive Andrews - Sealed for Eternity - 15 January 1846

Place: Nauvoo Temple, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Heber Chase Kimball

Proxy: Brigham Young

"Although hard evidence is lacking … it is likely that Olive Andrews was sealed for time and eternity to Joseph Smith Jr. during his life time, perhaps subsequent to or about 27 May 1842, the day that Lyman Omer Littlefield was excommmunicated for adultery."

Olive Andrews - Sealed for Eternity - 15 January 1846

Place: Nauvoo Temple, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Heber Chase Kimball

Spouse Proxy: Brigham Young

Source: The Nauvoo Endowment Companies

Jane Tibbets - Sealed for Eternity - 17 January 1846

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois

Officiator: Heber Chase Kimball

Proxy: Elam Luddington

abt. 1841/1843; SMINT 1846-01-17

Jane Tibbets - Sealed for Eternity - 17 January 1846

Place: Nauvoo Temple, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Heber Chase Kimball

Proxy: Elam Luddington

Phebe Watrous - Sealed for Eternity - 17 January 1846

Place: Nauvoo Temple, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Brigham Young

Spouse Proxy: Lucian Woodworth

Mary Elizabeth Rollins - Sealed for Eternity - 17 January 1846

Place: Nauvoo Temple, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Heber Chase Kimball

Spouse Proxy: Brigham Young

"The Nauvoo Endowment Companies," p. 423

Elizabeth Davis - Sealed for Eternity - 22 January 1846

Place: Nauvoo Temple, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Brigham Young

Proxy: Cornelius Peter Lott

Lucinda Pendleton - Sealed for Eternity - 22 January 1846

Place: Nauvoo Temple, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Brigham Young

Maria Lawrence - Sealed for Eternity - 24 January 1846

Place: Nauvoo Temple, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Heber Chase Kimball

Desdemona Wadsworth Fullmer - Sealed for Eternity - 26 January 1846

Place: Nauvoo Temple, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Brigham Young

Proxy: Ezra Taft Benson

Martha McBride - Sealed for Eternity - 26 January 1846

Place: Nauvoo Temple, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Amasa Mason Lyman

Proxy: Heber Chase Kimball

Sylvia Porter Sessions - Sealed for Eternity - 26 January 1846

Place: Nauvoo Temple, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Amasa Mason Lyman

Proxy: Heber Chase Kimball

Cordelia Calista Morley - Sealed for Eternity - 27 January 1846

Place: Nauvoo Temple, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Amasa Mason Lyman

Spouse Proxy: Frederick Walter Cox Sr

She rejected Joseph's proposals during his lifetime, but changed her mind after his death

Aphia Woodman - Sealed for Eternity - 27 January 1846

Place: Nauvoo Temple, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Heber Chase Kimball

Proxy: Gad Yale

Rhoda Richards - Sealed for Eternity - 31 January 1846

Place: Nauvoo Temple, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Heber Chase Kimball

Proxy: Brigham Young

Zina Diantha Huntington - Sealed for Eternity - 02 February 1846

Place: Nauvoo Temple, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Heber Chase Kimball

Proxy: Brigham Young

Mariah Huston - Sealed for Eternity - 03 February 1846

Nancy Maria Winchester - Sealed for Eternity - 03 February 1846

Place: Nauvoo Temple, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Brigham Young

Proxy: Heber Chase Kimball

Eliza Roxcy Snow - Sealed for Eternity - 03 February 1846

Place: Nauvoo Temple, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Heber Chase Kimball

Proxy: Brigham Young

Elvira Anna Cowles - Sealed for Eternity - 03 February 1846

Place: Nauvoo Temple, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Brigham Young

Spouse Proxy: Jonathan Harriman Holmes

Mary Huston - Sealed for Eternity - 03 February 1846

Place: Nauvoo Temple, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Amasa Mason Lyman

Proxy: Heber Chase Kimball

Prescindia Lathrop Huntington - Sealed for Eternity - 04 February 1846

Place: Nauvoo Temple, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Amasa Mason Lyman

Proxy: Heber Chase Kimball

Helen Marr Kimball - Sealed for Eternity - 04 February 1846

Place: Nauvoo Temple, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Brigham Young

Proxy: Horace Kimball Whitney

Mary Ann Frost - Sealed for Eternity - 06 February 1846

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA

Officiator: Heber Chase Kimball

Proxy: Parley Parker Pratt

Melissa Lott - Sealed for Eternity - 08 February 1846

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA

Officiator: Brigham Young

Proxy: John Milton Bernhisel

Sarah Ann Fuller - Sealed for Eternity - 29 January 1847

Place: Winter Quarters

Officiator: Brigham Young

Spouse Proxy: Samuel Gully

Place: Winter Quarters Indian Terr. now Nebraska Witnesses: Jos. B. Noble The martyred prophet

Amanda Barnes - Sealed for Eternity - 19 January 1852

Upon receiving a vision that she was to be sealed to Joseph Smith, Jr. (which she discounted as being from the devil), Brigahm Young counseled her to go forward and she was sealed to him on 19 Jan 1852 in the Endowment House (Black; Endowment House Sealing Records, Book A, #255).

Dionetia Walker - Sealed for Eternity - 27 October 1886

Spouse Proxy: Brigham Young

Had herself and son Hyrum sealed to prophet Joseph Smith with Brigham Young acting as proxy 27 October 1886.

Augusta Adams - Sealed for Eternity -

See Brown p.284 n.292

Sarah Ann Whitney - -

Notes

Joseph Murdock Smith

Birth Date: 30 April 1831

Death Date: 29 March 1832

Julia Murdock Smith

Birth Date: 30 April 1831

Death Date: 10 September 1880

Joseph Smith

Birth Date: 06 November 1832

Death Date: 10 December 1914

Frederick Granger William Smith

Birth Date: 20 June 1836

Death Date: 13 April 1862

Alexander Hale Smith

Birth Date: 02 June 1838

Death Date: 12 August 1909

Don Carlos Smith

Birth Date: 13 June 1840

Death Date: 15 September 1841

David Hyrum Smith

Birth Date: 17 November 1844

Death Date: 29 August 1904

Alvin Smith

Birth Date: 15 June 1828

Thadeus Smith

Birth Date: 30 April 1831

Death Date: 30 April 1831

Louisa Smith

Birth Date: 30 April 1831

Death Date: 30 April 1831

Baby Boy Smith

Birth Date: 06 February 1842

Death Date: 06 February 1842

John Milton Bernhisel

Birth Date: 23 June 1799

Death Date: 28 September 1881

Type: adoption

First Presidency

Start Date: 01 January 1835

At Least By This Date

End Date: 03 February 1846

Notes: Auto generated from previous Office When Performed fields.

Female Relief Society of Nauvoo

Start Date: 27 July 1842

At Least By This Date

End Date: 27 July 1842

Notes: Auto generated from previous Office When Performed fields.

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