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  Joseph Smith III - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Joseph Smith III (November 6, 1832–December 10, 1914) was the eldest surviving son of Joseph Smith, Jr.
Joseph Smith III was born in Kirtland, Ohio on November 6, 1832 to Joseph Smith, Jr.
The Joseph Smith "Homestead" — the residence of Joseph Smith III in Nauvoo.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Joseph_Smith_III   (1590 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Israel Alexander Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Israel Alexander Smith (February 2, 1876 – June 14, 1958) was the third son of Joseph Smith III and a grandson of Joseph Smith, Jr.
Israel Alexander Smith was born in Plano, Illinois on February 2, 1876 — the third son and fourth child of Joseph Smith III and Bertha Madison Smith.
Smith became a counselor in the Presiding Bishopric in 1920.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Israel-Alexander-Smith   (1163 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Emma Hale Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Both she and Joseph III traveled to a conference at Amboy, Illinois and on April 6, 1860, Joseph was sustained as president of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which later became the Community of Christ.
Nathaniel Smith Nathaniel Smith was a Representative to the 1762.
Smith River (Oregon) The Smith River is a tributary of the Siuslaw River to the north.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Joseph Smith
Joseph F. Smith (1838-1918), son of Hyrum Smith and nephew of Joseph Smith, Jr.
Joseph Fielding Smith (1876-1972), son of Joseph F. Smith and tenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Joseph Fielding Smith (1899-1964) Patriarch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1942 to 1946.
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  Joseph Smith III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Joseph Smith III (November 6, 1832–December 10, 1914) was the eldest surviving son of Joseph Smith, Jr.
The Joseph Smith "Homestead" — the residence of Joseph Smith III in Nauvoo.
Joseph Smith III was an ardent opponent of the practice of plural marriage (additional info and facts about plural marriage) throughout his life.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/joseph_smith_iii2.htm   (1628 words)

  
 Joseph Smith III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Joseph Smith III succeeded his father as Prophet-President of a "New Organization" of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Joseph Smith III was born in Kirtland, Ohio on November 6, 1832 to Joseph Smith, Jr.
Joseph Smith III was an ardent opponent of the practice of plural marriage throughout his life.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joseph_Smith_III   (1616 words)

  
 Our History - Frederick M. Smith
Frederick Madison Smith, son of Joseph Smith III, served as prophet-president of the church from 1915 to 1946.
Joseph was not a strong administrator, recognizing that his strengths lay in pulling people of diverse viewpoints together.
For Smith, "common consent" meant that church members had the privilege and right to discuss and debate church laws and rules as they were being established, but once those laws were established, individuals had the right and responsibility of obeying them.
www.rlds.org /history/FMS.asp   (448 words)

  
 Joseph Smith III - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
Joseph Smith III (November 6, 1832 - December 10, 1914) was a son of Joseph Smith, Jr.
Years after the 1844 murder of Joseph Smith, Jr., Joseph Smith III was called upon to be the ecclesiastical leader of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints now known as the Community of Christ, which organized in 1860.
Joseph Smith III denied that his father practiced or taught "plural marriage" as a doctrine of the church his father founded.
www.music.us /education/J/Joseph-Smith-III.htm   (352 words)

  
 Our History - Joseph Smith III
Joseph Smith III was only eleven years old when his father was murdered.
Rather than seeing the building of Zion as a short-term enterprise, Joseph sensed that building the kingdom of God would be a difficult and long-term activity.
His wife, Emma Smith Bidamon, held on to the manuscript after her husband’s death and gave it to the church after her son, Joseph Smith III, took leadership.
www.cofchrist.org /history/JSIII.asp   (623 words)

  
 Joseph Smith as a Prophet
Joseph Smith is to organize Zion's Camp (a Mormon army) and relieve the distress of the Saints in Missouri.
Joseph Smith prophesies to the members of Zion's Camp that "within three years they should march to Jackson County and there should not be a dog to open his mouth against them." Reed Peck Manuscript p.
Joseph Smith never lived in it; his widow Emma was living in it at her death, but his family have not owned or occupied it since then.
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 The Prophet Joseph Smith III
This painting shows Joseph at about forty-eight years of age, as he appeared while he lived at Piano, Illinois, and was president of the Church and editor of the Saints’ Herald and other Church publications.
I turned to President Smith and said: “Have you ever seen, in fact, the fair scene thus presented to you in vision?” We were in the editorial room in the southwest corner of the upper floor of the old Herald Office building in Lamoni, Iowa.
While Young Joseph was being directed by visions, the saints in independent Restoration branches were being informed by dreams, visions, prophecies, and tongues that he would become their prophet.
restorationbookstore.org /prints/joseph3.htm   (2805 words)

  
 CH 2
Her exquisite research and documentation gave new credibility to the allegation that Joseph Smith was the originator of the polygamy doctrine.
Wallace Smith, son of Joseph III and grandson of Mormonism’s founder, Joseph Smith Jr., became the fourth prophet of the Reorganization.
Wallace Smith retired in 1978 (the first RLDS prophet not to die in office), having brought the church from the relative calm of Israel’s administration into a period of unrest, suspicion and disillusionment, not known since the schismatic leadership of his brother Frederick.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Latter Day Saint movement
After Smith's death in 1844, the movement divided into several groups, the largest of which, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) migrated to Utah and became famous in the 19th century for its practice of plural marriage.
Smith and Cowdery claimed that the angels John the Baptist, Peter, James and John visited them in 1829 and gave them authority to reestablish the Church of Christ.
Following Smith's martyrdom by a mob in Carthage, Illinois, some prominent members of the church claimed to be Smith's legitimate successor resulting in a succession crisis, in which the majority of church members accepted Brigham Young's leadership; others followed Sidney Rigdon.
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 LAMONI, IOWA, RLDS CHURCH HISTORY TOUR PAGE
A son of Joseph Smith III, Frederick Madison Smith, was a familiar figure in the community and participated on this team.
Joseph Smith III made his home at Liberty Hall on the western outskirts of the town.
After Joseph III and the Smith family moved to Independence, Missouri, in 1906, the former Smith home served as a church home for seniors and was for many years known as Liberty Home.
www.jwha.info /cofc/lhist2.htm   (446 words)

  
 Joseph Smith III - Definition, explanation
Joseph Smith III (November 6, 1832–December 10, 1914) was the eldest surviving son of Joseph Smith, Jr, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.
Joseph Smith III was born in Kirtland, Ohio on November 6, 1832 to Joseph Smith, Jr and Emma Hale Smith.
Both Young and Strang gave indications that they believed that a son of Joseph Smith, Jr would one day lead the church and both made overtures to the Smith family.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/j/jo/joseph_smith_iii.php   (1623 words)

  
 LDS Church History - Nauvoo quiz -- free game
Joseph was finally able to finish transcribing the scrolls found in a mummy purchased while the Saints lived in Kirtland, Ohio.
Joseph wrote a letter to the editor (John Wentworth) of the Chicago Democrat, at his request, outlining a little about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and their beliefs.
Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum were murdered by a mob who stormed the jail where they were being held.
www.funtrivia.com /playquiz/quiz2195851924780.html   (461 words)

  
 Posterity of Joseph SMITH, Jr. - jsm01.htm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Joseph SMITH Jr.-26 was born 23 Dec 1805 in Sharon, Windsor, Vermont.
Joseph married Emma HALE-27, daughter of Isaac HALE-19786 and Elizabeth LEWIS-19787, on 18 Jan 1827 in Bainbridge, Chenango, New York.
Joseph SMITH III-1414 was born 6 Nov 1832 and died 10 Dec 1914.
www.josephsmithsr.com /josephjr/jsmg01.htm   (320 words)

  
 Utah History Encyclopedia
Smith said in his inaugural address to the Reorganization's general conference that while he respected those who had gone to Utah, he thought they had been misled and were controlled by an authoritarian system which held them, if not against their will, at least in ignorance of other possibilities.
Joseph Smith III also made three missionary trips to Utah--1876, 1885, and 1889--where he met with cousins and preached to packed houses every time.
In the early part of the twentieth century, the son of Joseph Smith III and designated successor to the presidency of the Reorganized Church, Frederick Madison Smith, made several missionary trips to Utah.
www.media.utah.edu /UHE/r/REORGANIZEDCHURCH.html   (1450 words)

  
 MORMON ORIGINS - JOSEPH SMITH - EARLY LDS HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS - MORMONISM
At the beginning of the year 1844 Hyrum Smith was acting as counselor to Joseph Smith as well as holding the office of Patriarch to the church.
James Whitehead mentioned that this blessing of Joseph Smith III was public knowledge in the lifetime of Joseph Smith.
A reference to the birth of David Hyrum Smith born 17 November 1844 is in the Journal of Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs, LDS archives.
www.xmission.com /~research/about/successi.htm   (2994 words)

  
 The Watchman Expositor: RLDS Profile
As Gordon Fraser explains, "With the death of Joseph Smith, the entire church was thrust into a state of chaos, with a dozen potential leaders contending for the mantle of the Prophet" (Sects of the Latter-day Saints, p.
Sidney Rigdon, an early associate of Joseph Smith's, called his group the Church of Christ, which was the original name given the church by Joseph Smith.
It was in this same year that Joseph Smith III finally consented to become the prophet and was ordained to that position by Marks.
www.watchman.org /profile/rldspro.htm   (2028 words)

  
 Mormon polygamy
In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith
Much of the current evidence for the early practice of polygamy in Mormonism was ironically caused by Joseph Smith's son who, like his mother Emma, abhored the practice.
Fawn Brodie's biography of Joseph Smith includes some accurate information surrounding his polygamous affairs as well as some speculations that have yet to be completely verified.
www.lds-mormon.com /mormon_polygamy.shtml   (840 words)

  
 Joseph III knew
The lines specific to Joseph Smith's trauma are called the Le Forte I, II, and III fracture lines.
Joseph Smith's skull and death mask present the classic signs of the Le Forte fractures.
Joseph III may not have known about his father's facial fractures, but he definitely had a problem with the distortions created by them when artists reproduced his father's image using the death mask.
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 Joseph Fielding Smith, General Authority   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Joseph Fielding Smith (III), [Patriarch to the Church] and a member of the General Board of Y. was born Jan. 30, 1899, in Salt Lake City, Utah, the eldest son of Hyrum Mack Smith and Ida Elizabeth Bowman.
Patriarch Smith was ordained a High Priest and Patriarch to the Church October 8, 1942 by President Heber J.
Patriarch Smith should not be confused with his Grandfather Joseph F. (Fielding) Smith, nor his uncle Joseph Fielding Smith, both of whom served as Apostles and later as Presidents of the Church.
personal.atl.bellsouth.net /w/o/wol3/smithjf3.htm   (243 words)

  
 Joseph Smith III Memoirs
The history states that on one occasion Emma Smith remained in the jail two days and that the wives of Caleb Baldwin and Reynolds Cahoon were with her at that time.
Smith left the home from which she had been driven and turned her steps toward Illinois.
Smith, weary, sad, and heart-broken, crossed the mighty river to Quincy, Illinois, on foot, carrying her two youngest children, with the oldest boy and little girl clinging to her dress.
www.centerplace.org /history/misc/js3mem/110634.htm   (4542 words)

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