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Lucy Mack Smith

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Lucy Mack Smith (July 8, 1775 – May 14, 1856) was the mother of Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. [1]

69 relations: A Believing People, Alvin Smith (brother of Joseph Smith), Angel Moroni, Anointed Quorum, Book of Abraham, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite), Critical appraisal of the Book of Abraham, Cumorah, Dan Vogel, Doctor Philastus Hurlbut, Don Carlos Smith, E. B. Grandin, Early life of Joseph Smith, Early participants in the Latter Day Saint movement, First Vision, Gilsum, New Hampshire, Golden plates, Hiram Page, History of Joseph Smith by His Mother, Hyrum Smith, James Strang, Jesse N. Smith, Joseph Smith, Joseph Smith Papyri, Joseph Smith Sr., Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration, Katharine Smith Salisbury, Latter Day Saint movement and engraved metal plates, Lavina Fielding Anderson, Letter of appointment, Life of Joseph Smith from 1827 to 1830, List of Brigham Young University residence halls, List of descendants of Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith, List of Mormon family organizations, List of people with surname Smith, List of Scottish Americans, List of The Joseph Smith Papers episodes, Lost 116 pages, Lucy Harris, Lucy Smith (disambiguation), Luman Walters, Mark Hofmann, Martha Jane Knowlton Coray, Martin Harris (Latter Day Saints), Mormonism and history, Mormonism in the 19th century, Oliver Cowdery, Origin of the Book of Mormon, Outline of Joseph Smith, Preston Nibley, ..., Sacred Grove (Latter Day Saints), Samuel H. Smith (Latter Day Saints), Samuel T. Lawrence, Scot and Maurine Proctor, Seer stone (Latter Day Saints), September Six, Smith family (Latter Day Saints), Smith Family Cemetery, Smith Family Farm, Stephen Mack, Succession crisis (Latter Day Saints), Tayva Patch, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Michigan, Tree of life vision, Urim and Thummim, Urim and Thummim (Latter Day Saints), Western Illinois University, William Smith (Latter Day Saints), 1775. Expand index (19 more) »

A Believing People

A Believing People: Literature of the Latter-day Saints, edited by Richard H. Cracroft and Neal E. Lambert, and published in 1974, was "the first significant anthology of the literature of the Latter-day Saints" and began the establishment of the field of Mormon literature as a legitimate discipline, and remains, according to A Motley Vision in 2012, " the only comprehensive Mormon Literature anthology ever published." Cracroft and Lambert released an anthology with a more modern focus, 22 Young Mormon Writers, the following year.

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Alvin Smith (brother of Joseph Smith)

Alvin Smith (February 11, 1798 – November 19, 1823) was the eldest brother of Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.

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Angel Moroni

The Angel Moroni is, in Mormonism, an angel who Joseph Smith stated visited him on numerous occasions, beginning on September 21, 1823.

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Anointed Quorum

The Anointed Quorum, also known as the Quorum of the Anointed, or the Holy Order, was a select body of men and women who Joseph Smith initiated into Mormon temple ordinances at Nauvoo, Illinois, which gave them special standing in the early Latter Day Saint movement.

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Book of Abraham

The Book of Abraham is a work produced in 1835 by Joseph Smith.

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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite)

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints—usually distinguished with a parenthetical (Strangite)—is a schism of the Latter Day Saint movement.

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Critical appraisal of the Book of Abraham

The Book of Abraham is an 1835 work produced by Joseph Smith that he said was based on Egyptian papyri purchased from a traveling mummy exhibition.

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Cumorah

Cumorah (also known as Mormon Hill,A. P. Kesler,, Young Woman's Journal, 9:73 (February 1898)."Thomas Cook History, 1930", in Dan Vogel ed. (2000). Early Mormon Documents, vol. 3 (Salt Lake City: Signature Books) pp. 243–50.Andrew Jenson, Conference Report (April 1917) p. 99. Gold Bible Hill,, New York Times, 1888-02-26.Bruce E. Dana (2003). Glad Tidings Near Cumorah (CFI) pp. 58–60. and Inspiration Point) is a drumlin in Manchester, New York, United States, where Joseph Smith said he found a set of golden plates which he translated into English and published as the Book of Mormon.

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Dan Vogel

Daniel Arlon Vogel (born 1955) is an independent researcher, writer, and author on a number of works that include Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet. and is most known for his work on Early Mormon Documents.

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Doctor Philastus Hurlbut

Doctor Philastus Hurlbut (February 3, 1809 – June 16, 1883) was a 19th-century Latter Day Saint dissenter.

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Don Carlos Smith

Don Carlos Smith (March 25, 1816 – August 7, 1841) was the youngest brother of Joseph Smith and a leader, missionary, and periodical editor in the early days of the Latter Day Saint movement.

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E. B. Grandin

Egbert Bratt Grandin (March 30, 1806 – April 16, 1845) was a printer in Palmyra, New York, best known for publishing the first edition of the Book of Mormon, a sacred text of the churches of the Latter Day Saint movement.

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Early life of Joseph Smith

Joseph Smith (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader and the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement whose current followers include Mormons (see The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) and members of the Community of Christ.

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Early participants in the Latter Day Saint movement

Early participants in the Latter Day Saint movement consist of those individuals who were involved in Joseph Smith's Latter Day Saint movement prior to Smith's departure for Ohio in January 1831.

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First Vision

The First Vision (also called the grove experience) refers to a vision that Joseph Smith said he received in the spring of 1820, in a wooded area in Manchester, New York, which his followers call the Sacred Grove.

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Gilsum, New Hampshire

Gilsum is a town in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States.

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Golden plates

According to Latter Day Saint belief, the golden plates (also called the gold plates or in some 19th-century literature, the golden bible) are the source from which Joseph Smith said he translated the Book of Mormon, a sacred text of the faith.

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Hiram Page

Hiram Page (1800August 12, 1852) was an early member of the Latter-day Saint movement and one of the Eight Witnesses to the Book of Mormon's golden plates.

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History of Joseph Smith by His Mother

History of Joseph Smith by His Mother is a biography of Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, according to his mother, Lucy Mack Smith.

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Hyrum Smith

Hyrum Smith (February 9, 1800 – June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the original church of the Latter Day Saint movement.

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James Strang

James Jesse Strang (March 21, 1813 – July 9, 1856) was an American religious leader, politician and monarch.

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Jesse N. Smith

Jesse Nathaniel Smith (December 2, 1834 – June 5, 1906) was a Mormon pioneer, church leader, colonizer, politician and frontiersman.

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Joseph Smith

Joseph Smith Jr. (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader and founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement.

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Joseph Smith Papyri

The Joseph Smith Papyri (JSP) are eleven Egyptian papyrus fragments which were once owned by Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.

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Joseph Smith Sr.

Joseph Smith Sr. (July 12, 1771 – September 14, 1840) was the father of Joseph Smith Jr., the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.

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Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration

Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration is a 2005 film that focuses on some of the events during the life of Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, which was both filmed and distributed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

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Katharine Smith Salisbury

Katharine Smith Salisbury (July 8, 1813 – February 1, 1900) was a sister to Joseph Smith and an early convert in the Latter Day Saint movement.

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Latter Day Saint movement and engraved metal plates

Engraved metal plates hold a special significance in the Latter Day Saint movement because in 1827, the founder of that religion, Joseph Smith, claimed to have obtained a set of engraved golden plates from an angel and from them translated the Book of Mormon, a religious text of that religious tradition.

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Lavina Fielding Anderson

Lavina Fielding Anderson (born 13 April 1944 in Shelley, Idaho) is a Latter Day Saint scholar, writer, editor, and feminist.

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Letter of appointment

The "letter of appointment" is a controversial three-page document used by James J. Strang and his adherents to prove that he was the designated successor to Joseph Smith as the prophet and president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

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Life of Joseph Smith from 1827 to 1830

The life of Joseph Smith from 1827 to 1830, when he was 22–25 years old, includes some of his life's most significant events, and some of the most important history of the Latter Day Saint movement, the Restorationist religious movement he initiated during this period.

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List of Brigham Young University residence halls

This is a list of residential buildings at Brigham Young University which includes residential halls, dining facilities, housing area offices, laundry facilities, and other buildings directly connected with the residence halls.

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List of descendants of Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith

This is a list of the descendants of Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith, the founding family of the Latter Day Saint movement.

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List of Mormon family organizations

Mormon family organizations (i.e., family organizations or associations) are entities created by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) to accomplish the basic purposes of family life as understood within the church, in order to establish and strengthen family unity and identity across multiple generations.

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List of people with surname Smith

Smith is one of the most common surnames in the English-speaking world.

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List of Scottish Americans

This is a list of notable Scottish Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained U.S. citizenship and their American descendants.

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List of The Joseph Smith Papers episodes

The Joseph Smith Papers, a documentary television series produced by Ronald O. Barney and the Larry H. Miller Communications Corporation, premiered on KJZZ-TV in the Salt Lake City market.

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Lost 116 pages

The "lost 116 pages" were the original manuscript pages of what Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, said was the translation of the Book of Lehi, the first portion of the golden plates revealed to him by an angel in 1827.

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Lucy Harris

Lucy Harris (née Harris) (1792–1836) was the wife of Martin Harris, and an early skeptic of the translation of the Book of Mormon's Golden Plates.

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Lucy Smith (disambiguation)

Lucy Smith (1934–2013) was a Norwegian legal scholar and professor of law.

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Luman Walters

Luman Walters (c. 1789 – June 2, 1860) is known for his connection with the family of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.

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Mark Hofmann

Mark William Hofmann (born December 7, 1954) is an American counterfeiter, forger and convicted murderer.

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Martha Jane Knowlton Coray

Martha Jane Knowlton Coray (June 3, 1821 – December 14, 1881) was the only female member of the first Board of Trustees for Brigham Young Academy.

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Martin Harris (Latter Day Saints)

Martin Harris (May 18, 1783 – July 10, 1875) was an early convert to the Latter Day Saint movement who guaranteed the first printing of the Book of Mormon and also served as one of Three Witnesses who testified that they had seen the golden plates from which Joseph Smith said the Book of Mormon had been translated.

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Mormonism and history

The Mormon religion is predicated on what are said to be historical events such as the First Vision of Joseph Smith and the historicity of the Book of Mormon, which describes a detailed pre-Columbian history of the Americas.

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Mormonism in the 19th century

This is a chronology of Mormonism.

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Oliver Cowdery

Oliver H. P. Cowdery (October 3, 1806 – March 3, 1850) was, with Joseph Smith, an important participant in the formative period of the Latter Day Saint movement between 1829 and 1836.

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Origin of the Book of Mormon

There are several theories as to the origin of the Book of Mormon.

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Outline of Joseph Smith

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the life and influence of Joseph Smith: Joseph Smith – central figure of Mormonism, whom the teachings of most List of sects in the Latter Day Saint movement hold to be the founding Prophet.

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Preston Nibley

Preston Nibley (May 26, 1884 – January 2, 1966) was an American religious leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and wrote several books on the church, including several pieces of devotional literature.

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Sacred Grove (Latter Day Saints)

The foundational event of the Latter Day Saint movement took place in what is commonly referred to as the Sacred Grove.

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Samuel H. Smith (Latter Day Saints)

Samuel Harrison Smith (13 March 1808 – 30 July 1844) was a younger brother of Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.

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Samuel T. Lawrence

Samuel Tyler Lawrence (November 21, 1786 – December 18, 1847) was resident of New York in the 1820s who was an early associate of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter-day Saint movement.

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Scot and Maurine Proctor

Scot and Maurine Proctor are the founders of the Latter-day Saint oriented website Meridian Magazine.

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Seer stone (Latter Day Saints)

According to Latter Day Saint theology, seer stones were stones that were sacred gifts from God.

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September Six

The September Six were six members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) who were excommunicated or disfellowshipped by the church in September 1993, allegedly for publishing scholarly work against Mormon doctrine or criticizing church doctrine or leadership.

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Smith family (Latter Day Saints)

The Smith family is the name of an American family with many members prominent in religion and politics.

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Smith Family Cemetery

The Smith Family Cemetery, in Nauvoo, Illinois, is the final resting place of Joseph Smith, his wife Emma, and brother Hyrum.

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Smith Family Farm

The Smith Family Farm was the boyhood home of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.

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Stephen Mack

Stephen Mack (June 15, 1766 - November 11, 1826) was a merchant, patriot and politician.

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Succession crisis (Latter Day Saints)

The succession crisis in the Latter Day Saint movement occurred after the death of Joseph Smith, the movement's founder, on June 27, 1844.

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Tayva Patch

Tayva Patch (née Rhoton; February 18, 1953 – November 21, 2015) was an American actress who played the role of Lucy Mack Smith in many films.

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Michigan

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints arrived in Michigan in the 1830s.

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Tree of life vision

The tree of life vision is a vision described and discussed in the Book of Mormon, one of the scriptures of the Latter Day Saint movement denominations, published by Joseph Smith in 1830.

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Urim and Thummim

In the Hebrew Bible, the Urim and the Thummim (הָאוּרִים וְהַתֻּמִּים, Standard ha-Urim veha-Tummim Tiberian hāʾÛrîm wəhatTummîm; meaning uncertain, possibly "Lights and Perfections") are elements of the hoshen, the breastplate worn by the High Priest attached to the ephod.

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Urim and Thummim (Latter Day Saints)

In the Latter Day Saint movement, the Urim and Thummim (also called Interpreters) usually refers to a set of seer stones bound by silver bows into a set of spectacles, that movement founder Joseph Smith said he found buried in the hill Cumorah with the golden plates.

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Western Illinois University

Western Illinois University (WIU) is a public university located in Macomb, Illinois, United States.

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William Smith (Latter Day Saints)

William Smith (also found as William B. Smith) (March 13, 1811 – November 13, 1893) was a leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and one of the original members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

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1775

The American Revolution begins this year, with the first military engagement being the April 19 Battles of Lexington and Concord on the day after Paul Revere's now-epic ride.

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References

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