The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1914-12-16
PRESIDENT SMITH
is NO MORE
Head Of Latter Day Saints Church
Passes Away at His Home in
Independence, Mo.
WAS MARRIED THREE TIMES
In Dyina Hours President Smith Testi-
fled in Clear Tones That His
Father Was virtuous Man

fled in Clear Tones That His
Father Was virtuous Man
Independence, Mo-, Dec. 10.-Presi
dent Joseph Smith died this afternoon
at o'clock, passing away without a
struggle. lie had been very i'll sew
eral weeks and his family and church
officials were at his bedside when the
end came.
Arrangements for the funeral OF
President Joseph Smith are that his
body is to lie in state at the Latter
Day Saints church from 8 a. m. un-
til 2 D. M. Sunday next The funeral
services are to be conducted by the
pastor of the church, Elder George f..
Harrington. and his associates, and
the sermon is to be delivered by DR..
Joseph Luff. Interment is to be in
Mound Grove cemetery.
:. President Joseph Smith, son of
Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Emma
Hale Smith, daughter OF Isaac Hale,
was born November 6, 1882. at Kirt-
5 land, o. The Smith family came to
America in 1888, settling at TOpsfield.
z Mass, where they lived for $50 years
4 or more and maintained an honorable
4. name. No suspicion of evil attached
to the family until the religious move
ment began with which they were SO
prominently connected. Then their
names were used in connection with
i {enn ,%ol .tn rio po1i pin
secution. Some members of this fam
lily were prominent In the founding
of the government of the United States
and Captain Asael Smith. grandfather
! of the prophet, was engaged at the
head Of his company in the battle OF
Lexington and Concord, April 10, 1775.
Samuel Smith, father of Asael Smith,
I was a member Of the legislature OF
Massachusetts for several succeeding
terms. The families into which the
Smith family married in these early
days, the Trenches, the TONNES. the
Curtisses, the Dutys, the Macks and
the Hales, were all families OF high
responsibility.
Was Prosecuted.
President Smith passed through the
Z trials and prosecutions that his father
was subject to while in his boyhOOd
and in 1888 was thrust from his father
at the point Of a sword by a mob
militia, and when under the edict of
Governor BOggs of Missouri his mo-
Their and and her children left the state
while his father was confined in a
dungeon, he chung to his mothers
cloths while crossing the Mississippi
river on the ice. He was familiar
B with the scenes at NauvOO and had q
very distinct memory OF some Of the
leading acts of his father and some Of
the teachings. His father on several
occasions in public and private de-
ciared that he should be his successor
and when Brigham Young led party
to the valleys OF the mountains, Emma
Smith, President Smiths mother, re-
NAMED in NauvoO with her children
and reared them up with love for
honesty, sobriety and virtue. and in
stilled into their minds "a hatred for
immortality and evil practices, espe-
cially polygalny and its kindred evils.
President Smith had three brothers
who were reared to manhood, name
ly: Frederick, Alexander and David.
that part of the membership of the
church under his father who protested
AGAINST the work of Brigham Young
and his colleagues and in 1860 was
accepted as president of the Reor-
ganized Church OF Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints, to which position
he was entitled by the organic law
of the church, as well as his appoint
ment by his father. He has held this
position from that time until this by
unanimous consent there never hav-
ing been single vote to the contrary,
thus sustained each succeeding annual
conference.
Married in 1855.
In 1856 President Smith was mar
,ried to Miss Emaline Griswold at Nay-
VOC, Hancock county. Illinois. BY
this marriage three daughters were
reared to wOmanhoOd, namely: Emma
j., wife of Alexander McCallum, of
Independence, Mo-; Carrie L., wife of
& H. M. Weld, of Lamont, Ia, and Zaide
". deceased, who was the wife of r.
s. Salyards, now secretary of the
church Of Lamont, 10.
President Smiths wife died in
1869 and he subsequently married
Miss Bertha Madison, who was the
mother Of Frederick NJ, Israel A. and
Hale w. Smith, all of Independence,
No; Audentia M. wife of B. M. An
derson, OF independence. and Lucy Y.
Wife Of ]. M. Lysinger, of Lamont.
His second wife died in 1896 and sub
sequently he married Miss Ada Clark,
who survives him. She has three
sons, all living, namely: r. c., Wallace
ana Reginald. All his living children
were present during his last illness
and death. His nephews, Ebert A..
son of his brother, David, and Freder-
lex A., Joseph G.. Arthur NJ, and his
niece, Vida E., wife of Heman c..
Smith, children of his brother, Alex
ander, were present. There were
present also several grandchildren to
witness the closing scenes of his life.
President Smith removed from Nau-
VOC, ILL.,, to Plano, ILL.,. shortly after
taking his position as president of the