"A Short Sketch of the Life of Margaret T. Smoot"

File — Box: 1, Folder: 3-6

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This biographical sketch begins with Smoot's birth in South Carolina in 1809 and provides information about her parents and grandparents. It gives an account of her first marriage, which ended in divorce, and of her baptism into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She married Abraham Owen Smoot in 1838 and was among the Mormon pioneers that traveled to the Salt Lake Valley. The biography contains excerpts from Smoot's diary as well as letters she wrote to her husband while he was on a mission in Europe. The biography also contains numerous tributes written by family and friends to Margaret Smoot on her sixtieth and seventieth birthdays. Folders 5-6 contain a photocopied version.

Dates

1881-1904

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