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Joseph Smith
Iosephus Smith la
American religious leader and founder of the Latter Day Saint movement (1805–1844)
- Child of Joseph Smith, Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith
- Married to Emma Smith, Eliza Maria Partridge Lyman, Eliza Roxcy Snow and 7 more
- Dated 23 December 1805 CE – 27 June 1844 CE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Affiliation
As a third party recorded it, often for one period of a life.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Family
The family of Joseph Smith
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 22
Family 22
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (father) Joseph Smith, Sr. American religious leader
- child of (mother) Lucy Mack Smith American religious leader (1775-1856)
- parent of (child) Alexander Hale Smith American Mormon leader (1838–1909)
- parent of (child) David Hyrum Smith American RLDS Church leader
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parent of (father) Joseph Smith III eldest surviving son of Joseph Smith Jr and Prophet-President in Community of Christ - parent of (child) Julia Murdock Smith American Mormon leader (1831-1880)
- sibling of Alvin Smith Later Day Saints Smith family member
- sibling of Don Carlos Smith American Mormon leader (1816–1841)
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sibling of Hyrum Smith American Mormon leader - sibling of Katharine Smith Salisbury sister of Joseph Smith
- sibling of Samuel H. Smith American religious leader (1808-1844)
- sibling of William Smith leader in the Latter Day Saint movement (1811-1893)
- married to Louisa Beeman 1815 - 1850 (35 years)
- married to Sarah Ann Whitney plural wife of Joseph Smith Jr.
- married to Eliza Maria Partridge Lyman Member of the early Mormon church. Plural wife to Joseph Smith and Amasa Lyman.
- married to Emily Dow Partridge wife of Joseph Smith (1824-1899)
- married to Almera Woodward Johnson Latter-day Saint
- married to Eliza Roxcy Snow American Mormon writer (1804-1887)
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married to Emma Smith American Mormon leader (1804-1879) - married to Helen Mar Kimball Wife of Joseph Smith, Jr. (1828–1896)
- married to Lucinda Morgan Harrisová
- married to Zina D. H. Young American activist
Religious context
What the records tie them to
Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.
What this means
A founding is an attribution, usually contested, and not a claim that the tradition began fully formed. Patronage is an act, not a belief: it says nothing about the religion of a population, and nothing about the patron’s own practice in every period of a life. Domains are as sources record them — for a saint, usually a patronage — rarely exclusive, and not the same in every account.
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Named as founderThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Christian restorationist denomination centered on the Book of Mormon -
Named as founderMormonism
religious tradition and theology founded by Joseph Smith and centered on the Book of Mormon -
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Named as founderLatter Day Saint movement
religious movement centered on the Book of Mormon
Connections
How Joseph Smith connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Documented influence 2
What this means
A transmission argued from evidence. Not shared symbols, and not a short path through a database.
Does not imply shared symbols as evidence · a short path through a database
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Recorded events and days 1
What this means
Events Wikidata records in a subject’s history, and the day a festival is kept. Not a complete history, and the day a festival falls on is not when it began.
Does not imply that these are all the events in its history · that Wikidata ranks the events by importance
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
26 statements on this record
- 3 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 23 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 2 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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