My name is Gracia Normandeau Jones. Last 17 March 2018, I will celebrate the sixty-second anniversary of my baptism into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. My grandmother, Coral, was a granddaughter of Joseph and Emma Hale Smith; her father, Alexander Hale Smith, was their third surviving son. Many people ask how it […]
Below is an eye witness testimony of President Wilford Woodruff given on Friday, March 19, 1897 concerning his experience with the Prophet Joseph Smith calling the Quorum of Twelve Apostles concerning the authoring of the Temple endowments. President Woodruff and George Q. Cannon at the office. President Woodruff again spoke into the graphaphone or talking […]
“Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer of the Lord, has done more, save Jesus only, for the salvation of men in this world, than any other man that ever lived in it.” (D&C 135:3) I used to wonder in my early days of membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since Joseph Smith has done so […]
“An orator, jurist, statesman, soldier and a Christian … a lawyer for over fifty years and a life without reproach,” reads in part the inscription on a grave site monument dedicated to revered Missourian, Alexander W. Doniphan. On Oct. 22, members of the community in Liberty, Missouri, gathered at a symposium and award banquet to […]
This is Kimberly Jo Smith and I invite you to enjoy our new music video, Serenity Blue. This song is about the lives of my great-great grandparents, Joseph and Emma Smith. It is a story about Lucy Mack Smith, a mother who has lost her sons, and Emma, a wife who has lost her husband. […]
SALT LAKE CITY — Descendants of Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith met in greater force than ever before to both renew family ties and remember history at a reunion over the weekend. Roughly 1,100 Smith descendants from Hyrum, Joseph Jr. and Samuel Smith’s lines came to This Is The Place Heritage Park for the […]
On 28 July 2012, members of the Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith Family Association, along with local members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints met at the Union Cemetery in Stockholm, NY to pay tribute to and refurbish the headstone of Asael Smith who was the grandfather of the LDS […]
I was the first born child of Thomas James Gleeson and Bonnie Irene Waters in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. I have a sister Glenda Mavis and a brother Tomas James (3rd). My father was the son of Mavis Myra Wright and Thomas James Gleeson Sr. My grandmother was the daughter of Ina Inez Smith, […]
SALT LAKE CITY — The national convention of the Sons of Utah Pioneers, held at This Is the Place Heritage Park and surrounding areas Aug. 25-27, brought descendants of the Prophet Joseph Smith and Emma Smith together with descendants of Brigham Young to continue in healing “the rift.” “Eyes Westward” was the theme for the […]
SALT LAKE CITY — Ugo Perego had almost all the DNA evidence he needed to determine who was the father of John Reed Hancock. One of the alleged fathers was the most obvious: Levi W. Hancock. The other alleged father was Joseph Smith, the founding prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. […]
