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My Great-Great-Grandmother, Emma Hale Smith

02
Feb

My Great-Great-Grandmother, Emma Hale Smith

This post is an article written for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints August 1992 Ensign publishing.  It was written by Gracia Jones, the Chief Historian for the Joseph Smith Jr and Emma Hale Smith Historical Society.  It’s being republished as the content about our grandmother Emma is just as relevant today with […]

Missionary Moment: The Gracia Jones Story — Joseph Smith’s Great Great Granddaughter

21
Dec
Gracia Jones with Joseph Fielding Smith

Missionary Moment: The Gracia Jones Story — Joseph Smith’s Great Great Granddaughter

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 […]