Edited sentence: "   Additionally, both Joseph Smith, Sr.Like the majority of families of this era, the Smith family had little affiliation with organized religion but were privately religious, practicing a form of folk religion, including activities that would be controversial today but were generally accepted at that time and place.. Lucy Mack Smith stated in her memoirs that the family never "stopt [its] labor and went at trying to win the faculty of Abrac, drawing Magic circles or sooth saying...but whilst we worked with our hands we endeavored to remember the service of & the welfare of our souls.and at least two of his sons occasionally worked at "money digging," using seer stones in (mostly unsuccessful) attempts to locate lost items and buried treasure