Jesse N. Smith - Wives and Children

Wives and Children

Smith practiced plural marriage. He had five wives and forty-four children:

  • Emma Seraphine West (1836–1910), m. 13 May 1852
    • Emma Seraphine Smith (1853–1909)
    • Mary Josephine Smith (1855–1894)
    • Hannah Daphne Smith (1857–1939)
    • Eliza Snow Smith (1859–1927)
    • Jesse Nathaniel Smith Jr. (1861–1912)
    • Sarah Elizabeth "Sadie" Smith (1866–1892)
    • Silas Derryfield Smith (1867–1956)
    • John Walter Smith (1871–1936)
    • Samuel Francis Smith (1873–1954)
  • Margaret Fletcher West (1838–1864), m. 27 January 1856
    • Adelaide Margaret Smith (1857–1927)
    • Joseph West Smith (1859–1944)
  • Janet Mauretta Johnson (1848–1933), m. 9 October 1866
    • Susan Janet Smith (1868–1960)
    • Ellen Mauretta Smith (1871–1872)
    • Sariah Anna Smith (1873–1922)
    • Agnes Maude Smith (1874–1879)
    • Julia Johnson Smith (1875–1956)
    • Priscilla Smith (1877–1954)
    • Editha Smith (1878–1931)
    • Lucy Smith (1880–1951)
    • Margaret Fife Smith (1882–1969)
    • Ruth Smith (1884–1956)
    • Esther Smith (1887–1975)
    • Elias Smith (1889–1961)
    • Leah Smith (1891–1976)
  • Augusta Maria Outzen (1854–1932), m. 3 June 1869
    • Georgiana Bathseba Smith (1870–1946)
    • Augusta Gerhardina Smith (1872–1940)
    • Robert Christian Smith (1874–1920)
    • Martha Amelia Smith (1877–1931)
    • Asahel Henry Smith (1880–1947)
    • Anna Smith (1883–1910)
    • Rebecca Smith (1886–1960)
    • Rachel Smith (1889–1940)
    • Sophronia Smith (1892–1953)
    • Natalia Smith (1894–1978)
    • Millie Smith (1897–1931)
  • Emma Larson (1863–1943), m. 28 October 1881
    • Hyrum Smith (1882–1971)
    • Caroline Smith (1884–1924)
    • Don Carlos Smith (1886–1967)
    • Lorana Smith (1888–1979)
    • Lehi Larson Smith (1891–1918)
    • George Albert Smith (1893–1965)
    • Aikens Smith (1899–1960)
    • Myrtle Smith (1901–1977)
    • Matthias Foss Cowley Smith (1905–1990)

Smith was eighteen years old when his oldest child was born and seventy when his youngest was born.

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