Mary Fielding Smith

21 July 1801 — 21 September 1852

1 Born at Honeydon, Bedfordshire, England; daughter of Rachel Ibbotson and John Fielding. 2 Immigrated to Toronto, Upper Canada, 1834. 3 Baptized, 1836. 4 Migrated to Kirtland, Geauga County, Ohio, 1837. 5 Married first Hyrum Smith, 1837; two children. 6 Moved to Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri, 1838; to Quincy, Adams County, Illinois, 1839; and to Commerce (later Nauvoo), Hancock County, Illinois, 1839. 7 Lived in the Nauvoo Fourth Ward. 8 Joined the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo, 1842. 9 Widowed, 1844. 10 Married second Heber C. Kimball as a plural wife, 1844. 11 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1848. 12 Settled at Salt Lake City. 13 Died at Salt Lake City. 14 (See Document 1.2, first mentioned here)

Footnotes

  1. [1] Died,” Deseret News [weekly], Dec. 11, 1852, 3. Edward W. Tullidge, Women of Mormondom (New York: Tullidge & Crandall, 1877), 249. Andrew Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia (Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson History Co., 1914), 2:710–711.

  2. [2] Tullidge, Women of Mormondom, 249. Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, 2:710.

  3. [3] Tullidge, Women of Mormondom, 250.

  4. [4] Ibid.

  5. [5] Ibid.

  6. [6] Tullidge, Women of Mormondom, 250. Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, 2:710.

  7. [7] “People of the Time,” database, Hyrum Smith. 1840 U.S. census, Hancock Co., Illinois, p. 184, Iram [sic] Smith; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Jan. 2015); from NARA microfilm publication M704, roll 60.

  8. [8] Lyman De Platt, Nauvoo: Early Mormon Records Series, vol. 1 (Highland, UT: Lyman De Platt, 1980), 92.

  9. [9] Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book, 1841–1846, CHL, entry for Mar. 24, 1842.

  10. [10] “People of the Time,” database, Hyrum Smith.

  11. [11] “U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560–1900,” database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Feb. 2015), Heber Chase Kimball and Mary Fielding; citing Yates Publishing, Provo, UT. Don Cecil Corbett, Mary Fielding Smith: Daughter of Britain (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1974), 261.

  12. [12] “Mary Fielding Smith,” Church History Biographical Database, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, available at https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/landing, accessed Jan. 2015.

  13. [13] 1850 U.S. census, Great Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 64A, Mary Smith; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Jan. 2015); from NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 919.

  14. [14] “Died,” 3. Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, 2:711. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed Jan. 6, 2016), Mary Fielding KWV9-HXG.