Missions
In February 1836 he was ordained an Elder and began preaching in Kentucky and Tennessee with Wilford Woodruff, David W. Patten, and others. Woodruff would later marry Smoot's niece and name a son, Abraham Owen Woodruff, after Smoot.
He moved to western Missouri in 1837. From there he embarked on a five-month proselytizing mission to southern Missouri and Arkansas in 1838. After participating in the Missouri Mormon War, Smoot moved to Montrose, Iowa. In August 1841, he left to preach in South Carolina, and he returned in July 1842. He led a branch of the Church in Keokuk, Iowa. In 1844, he served another mission in Alabama.
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