BYU Library - Special Collections

Scope and Contents Notebook includes Coray's interview notes used in compiling of Lucy Mack Smith's history of Joseph Smith.Smith family history notes contain John and Clarissa Smith's account of visit by Joseph Smith Sr. to Smith family members, including his father, Asael Smith, in Lawrence County, New York, in 1830; John Smith's account of his and Joseph Smith Sr.'s reunion with their mother, Mary Duty Smith, at Kirtland, Ohio, and their subsequent journey eastward to visit Church branches and...

Scope and Contents Typewritten biography of Betsy Williamson Smith, a handcart pioneer and a settler in Utah. Also included is the "Smith Family History" tracing the Smith family from the 17th century to the 20th century.

Abstract Photocopies of reminiscences, histories, maps, and miscellaneous materials relating to the early Mormon experience in Ohio and New Hampshire. A. Gary Anderson and Milton V. Backman, Jr., faculty members of the Department of Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University, did research on Mormon Church history. Anderson worked in New Hampshire in 1973 and Backman did research in Ohio in 1974. Their project was to collect copies of manuscripts and documents relating to the early members of...

Scope and Contents Transcript of interview, conducted by Don Norton, with LDS Church Patriarch, Eldred G. Smith and his wife, Hortense Child Smith. Contains various stories of the Smith family during the Restoration from Carthage to the Salt Lake Valley, and Eldred Smith's experiences as the Church Patriarch from 1947 to 1979. This interview took place February 8, 2001.

Scope and Contents Contains two biographical works on the Smith family. Includes pedigrees, family group sheets, maps, and photographs on ancestors, initially in England and later in Utah and Idaho. Includes detailed information on Velva Lee Stokes Smith. Materials date from between 2008 and 2013.

Scope and Contents Typewritten biography of Silas Sanford Smith, Mormon colonizer of Utah and Arizona in the 19th century. Also includes biographies of Albert Ricks Smith, Jesse Joel Smith, John Aikens Smith, Martha Eliza Smith, Sarah Ann Ricks Smith, Sarah Ann Smith, Silas Sanford Smith Jr., and Stephen Augustus Smith. 56 pages.

Scope and Contents The records trace her ancestors through the British and Spanish nobility and early American settlers. Collection includes the genealogical records of these individuals.