Mary Fielding and Joseph F Smith Crossing the Plains by Glen S Hopkinson
Mary Fielding Smith was left a widow when her husband, Hyrum, was killed with his brother the Prophet Joseph. She had to care for not only her own large family but also several other helpless or ill people. Hyrum and Mary’s son, Joseph F. Smith, who would later become the sixth President of the Church, was only five years old at the time. Mary and her family left Nauvoo in…
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