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Lucy Mack Smith

Lucy Mack Smith

Young Joseph's leg operation, accounts of persecution the Smiths suffered from people trying to obtain the golden plates and details about the great sense of loss the family felt when the oldest son, Alvin, died all came from the record kept by Lucy Mack Smith. According to Sharalyn Howcroft, assistant archivist for the Joseph Smith Papers project, Lucy's record provides details that Joseph's own history did not.
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I read the record of Lucy Mack Smith and its an eye opener. They had a lot of financial challenges beyond the persecution and that could have made religion a great option to come out of it.

Lucy Mack Smith Studies Doctrine Mormon

I wonder who Joseph followed more after his mother or his father? Lucy seemed to be more of an influence on his life based on writings.