https://josephsmithsr.com/w/index.php?title=SMITH_-_I36&feed=atom&action=historySMITH - I36 - Revision history2024-03-29T06:46:41ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.35.5https://josephsmithsr.com/w/index.php?title=SMITH_-_I36&diff=143&oldid=prevMkennedy at 17:08, 15 May 20212021-05-15T17:08:18Z<p></p>
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</table>Mkennedyhttps://josephsmithsr.com/w/index.php?title=SMITH_-_I36&diff=136&oldid=prevMkennedy at 19:58, 14 May 20212021-05-14T19:58:32Z<p></p>
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</table>Mkennedyhttps://josephsmithsr.com/w/index.php?title=SMITH_-_I36&diff=135&oldid=prevMkennedy: /* Information obtained from: Patriarchal Blessing Book 1, LDS Church Archives,p. 82. by: Joseph Smith Sr. */2021-05-14T19:57:30Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Information obtained from: Patriarchal Blessing Book 1, LDS Church Archives,p. 82. by: Joseph Smith Sr.</span></span></p>
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</table>Mkennedyhttps://josephsmithsr.com/w/index.php?title=SMITH_-_I36&diff=134&oldid=prevMkennedy at 19:56, 14 May 20212021-05-14T19:56:43Z<p></p>
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</table>Mkennedyhttps://josephsmithsr.com/w/index.php?title=SMITH_-_I36&diff=133&oldid=prevMkennedy at 19:55, 14 May 20212021-05-14T19:55:11Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This information is verified by the following account which is quoted in United by Faith, compiled by Kyle R. Walker, BYU Press, Joseph Smith Sr., by Mark L. McConkie. See page 30:<br></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This information is verified by the following account which is quoted in United by Faith, compiled by Kyle R. Walker, BYU Press, Joseph Smith Sr., by Mark L. McConkie. See page 30:<br></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I have not attained to the age of my fathers, neither do I now know as I shall, but I desire, and for a long time have, to bless my children before I go hence. It is a source of grief to me that I have not been more fruitful to the Lord in days which are past than I have. I have not always set that example before my family that I ought. I have not been diligent in teaching them the commandments of the Lord, but have rather manifest a light and trifling mind. But in all this I have never denied the Lord. Notwithstanding all this my folly, which has been a source of grief to my family, the Lord has often visited me in visions and dreams, and has brought me, with my family, through many afflictions, and I this day thank his holy name. I look around upon you before me and I behold or ask: three seats are, as it were, empty. The Lord, in his just providence has taken from me, at an untimely birth, a son; this has been a matter of affliction but the Lord’s ways are just.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><blockquote><span style="color:#008000"></ins>I have not attained to the age of my fathers, neither do I now know as I shall, but I desire, and for a long time have, to bless my children before I go hence. It is a source of grief to me that I have not been more fruitful to the Lord in days which are past than I have. I have not always set that example before my family that I ought. I have not been diligent in teaching them the commandments of the Lord, but have rather manifest a light and trifling mind. But in all this I have never denied the Lord. Notwithstanding all this my folly, which has been a source of grief to my family, the Lord has often visited me in visions and dreams, and has brought me, with my family, through many afflictions, and I this day thank his holy name. I look around upon you before me and I behold or ask: three seats are, as it were, empty. The Lord, in his just providence has taken from me, at an untimely birth, a son; this has been a matter of affliction but the Lord’s ways are just.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"></span>/blockquote></ins></div></td></tr>
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</table>Mkennedyhttps://josephsmithsr.com/w/index.php?title=SMITH_-_I36&diff=132&oldid=prevMkennedy at 19:51, 14 May 20212021-05-14T19:51:35Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I have not attained to the age of my fathers, neither do I now know as I shall, but I desire, and for a long time have, to bless my children before I go hence. It is a source of grief to me that I have not been more fruitful to the Lord in days which are past than I have. I have not always set that example before my family that I ought. I have not been diligent in teaching them the commandments of the Lord, but have rather manifest a light and trifling mind. But in all this I have never denied the Lord. Notwithstanding all this my folly, which has been a source of grief to my family, the Lord has often visited me in visions and dreams, and has brought me, with my family, through many afflictions, and I this day thank his holy name. I look around upon you before me and I behold or ask: three seats are, as it were, empty. The Lord, in his just providence has taken from me, at an untimely birth, a son; this has been a matter of affliction but the Lord’s ways are just.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I have not attained to the age of my fathers, neither do I now know as I shall, but I desire, and for a long time have, to bless my children before I go hence. It is a source of grief to me that I have not been more fruitful to the Lord in days which are past than I have. I have not always set that example before my family that I ought. I have not been diligent in teaching them the commandments of the Lord, but have rather manifest a light and trifling mind. But in all this I have never denied the Lord. Notwithstanding all this my folly, which has been a source of grief to my family, the Lord has often visited me in visions and dreams, and has brought me, with my family, through many afflictions, and I this day thank his holy name. I look around upon you before me and I behold or ask: three seats are, as it were, empty. The Lord, in his just providence has taken from me, at an untimely birth, a son; this has been a matter of affliction but the Lord’s ways are just.</div></td></tr>
</table>Mkennedyhttps://josephsmithsr.com/w/index.php?title=SMITH_-_I36&diff=131&oldid=prevMkennedy at 19:50, 14 May 20212021-05-14T19:50:19Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This information is verified by the following account which is quoted in United by Faith, compiled by Kyle R. Walker, BYU Press, Joseph Smith Sr., by Mark L. McConkie. See page 30:<br></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This information is verified by the following account which is quoted in United by Faith, compiled by Kyle R. Walker, BYU Press, Joseph Smith Sr., by Mark L. McConkie. See page 30:<br></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I have not attained to the age of my fathers, neither do I now know as I shall, but I desire, and for a long time have, to bless my children before I go hence. It is a source of grief to me that I have not been more fruitful to the Lord in days which are past than I have. I have not always set that example before my family that I ought. I have not been diligent in teaching them the commandments of the Lord, but have rather manifest a light and trifling mind. But in all this I have never denied the Lord. Notwithstanding all this my folly, which has been a source of grief to my family, the Lord has often visited me in visions and dreams, and has brought me, with my family, through many afflictions, and I this day thank his holy name. I look around upon you before me and I behold or ask: three seats are, as it were, empty. The Lord, in his just providence has taken from me, at an untimely birth, a son; this has been a matter of affliction but the Lord’s ways are just.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I have not attained to the age of my fathers, neither do I now know as I shall, but I desire, and for a long time have, to bless my children before I go hence. It is a source of grief to me that I have not been more fruitful to the Lord in days which are past than I have. I have not always set that example before my family that I ought. I have not been diligent in teaching them the commandments of the Lord, but have rather manifest a light and trifling mind. But in all this I have never denied the Lord. Notwithstanding all this my folly, which has been a source of grief to my family, the Lord has often visited me in visions and dreams, and has brought me, with my family, through many afflictions, and I this day thank his holy name. I look around upon you before me and I behold or ask: three seats are, as it were, empty. The Lord, in his just providence has taken from me, at an untimely birth, a son; this has been a matter of affliction but the Lord’s ways are just.</div></td></tr>
</table>Mkennedyhttps://josephsmithsr.com/w/index.php?title=SMITH_-_I36&diff=130&oldid=prevMkennedy: /* SMITH baby boy */2021-05-14T19:49:59Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">SMITH baby boy</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===== Information obtained from: Patriarchal Blessing Book 1, LDS Church Archives,p. 82. by: Joseph Smith Sr. =====</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===== Information obtained from: Patriarchal Blessing Book 1, LDS Church Archives,p. 82. by: Joseph Smith Sr. =====</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In Mother Smith’s ''“History of Joseph Smith”'', published by Orson Pratt in England, and republished as, ''“Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith and His Progenitors for Many Generations”'', in 1912 by Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Herald Press, Lamoni, Iowa, p. 33, the firstborn child is not mentioned in her list of children. Lucy Mack Smith, History of Joseph Smith by His Mother, edited by Preston Nibley, published by Bookcraft, Salt Lake City, UT, 1958, has short biographies for each of the children of Lucy and Joseph Smith Sr. There is no mention of the firstborn child. That this baby was a boy became public through various publications; two of the sources for this information are discussed below.<br></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In Mother Smith’s ''“History of Joseph Smith”'', published by Orson Pratt in England, and republished as, ''“Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith and His Progenitors for Many Generations”'', in 1912 by Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Herald Press, Lamoni, Iowa, p. 33, the firstborn child is not mentioned in her list of children. Lucy Mack Smith, History of Joseph Smith by His Mother, edited by Preston Nibley, published by Bookcraft, Salt Lake City, UT, 1958, has short biographies for each of the children of Lucy and Joseph Smith Sr. There is no mention of the firstborn child. That this baby was a boy became public through various publications; two of the sources for this information are discussed below.<br></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Of particular note is the information included in a footnote by Scott and Maurine Proctor in their ''“Revised and Enhanced History of Joseph Smith by His Mother Lucy Mack Smith” p. 46'':</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Of particular note is the information included in a footnote by Scott and Maurine Proctor in their ''“Revised and Enhanced History of Joseph Smith by His Mother Lucy Mack Smith” p. 46'':<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> <span style="color:#008000">Footnote #2 Joseph and Lucy lived on this farm [at Tunbridge, Vermont] from their marriage in January 1796 until 1802. A note of sadness is found in Joseph Smith Sr.’s patriarchal blessing book of 1834 where he addresses the Smith family and speaks of ''“three seats”'' vacated by death among his children: ''“The Lord in his just providence has taken from me at an untimely birth a son. . . .My next son, Alvin. . . was taken.”'' Joseph and Lucy’s firstborn son was taken in death sometime between the middle of 1796 and the spring of 1797.”</span><br></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> <span style="color:#008000">Footnote #2 Joseph and Lucy lived on this farm [at Tunbridge, Vermont] from their marriage in January 1796 until 1802. A note of sadness is found in Joseph Smith Sr.’s patriarchal blessing book of 1834 where he addresses the Smith family and speaks of ''“three seats”'' vacated by death among his children: ''“The Lord in his just providence has taken from me at an untimely birth a son. . . .My next son, Alvin. . . was taken.”'' Joseph and Lucy’s firstborn son was taken in death sometime between the middle of 1796 and the spring of 1797.”</span><br></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This information is verified by the following account which is quoted in United by Faith, compiled by Kyle R. Walker, BYU Press, Joseph Smith Sr., by Mark L. McConkie. See page 30:</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This information is verified by the following account which is quoted in United by Faith, compiled by Kyle R. Walker, BYU Press, Joseph Smith Sr., by Mark L. McConkie. See page 30:<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>My children, I am now in my sixty-third year, and my head is white: I have seen many years, compared to those enjoyed by many. I am now in my sixty-third year and my frame is feeble because of the many trials and fatigues which I have endured in this life.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">{{Quote|text=Father Smith assembled his children on 4 December 1834 to bless them. Oliver Cowdery Recorder. </ins>My children, I am now in my sixty-third year, and my head is white: I have seen many years, compared to those enjoyed by many. I am now in my sixty-third year and my frame is feeble because of the many trials and fatigues which I have endured in this life.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">}}</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I have not attained to the age of my fathers, neither do I now know as I shall, but I desire, and for a long time have, to bless my children before I go hence. It is a source of grief to me that I have not been more fruitful to the Lord in days which are past than I have. I have not always set that example before my family that I ought. I have not been diligent in teaching them the commandments of the Lord, but have rather manifest a light and trifling mind. But in all this I have never denied the Lord. Notwithstanding all this my folly, which has been a source of grief to my family, the Lord has often visited me in visions and dreams, and has brought me, with my family, through many afflictions, and I this day thank his holy name. I look around upon you before me and I behold or ask: three seats are, as it were, empty. The Lord, in his just providence has taken from me, at an untimely birth, a son; this has been a matter of affliction but the Lord’s ways are just.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I have not attained to the age of my fathers, neither do I now know as I shall, but I desire, and for a long time have, to bless my children before I go hence. It is a source of grief to me that I have not been more fruitful to the Lord in days which are past than I have. I have not always set that example before my family that I ought. I have not been diligent in teaching them the commandments of the Lord, but have rather manifest a light and trifling mind. But in all this I have never denied the Lord. Notwithstanding all this my folly, which has been a source of grief to my family, the Lord has often visited me in visions and dreams, and has brought me, with my family, through many afflictions, and I this day thank his holy name. I look around upon you before me and I behold or ask: three seats are, as it were, empty. The Lord, in his just providence has taken from me, at an untimely birth, a son; this has been a matter of affliction but the Lord’s ways are just.</div></td></tr>
</table>Mkennedyhttps://josephsmithsr.com/w/index.php?title=SMITH_-_I36&diff=129&oldid=prevMkennedy at 19:41, 14 May 20212021-05-14T19:41:47Z<p></p>
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</table>Mkennedyhttps://josephsmithsr.com/w/index.php?title=SMITH_-_I36&diff=127&oldid=prevMkennedy at 17:24, 14 May 20212021-05-14T17:24:45Z<p></p>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[https://www.josephsmithsr.com/getperson.php?personID=I35&tree=josephsmithsr Lucy Mack Smith] gave birth to a stillborn baby sometime between 1796 and 1797. The exact birth date is not known. What little is known about the birth of this baby has been confused by conflicting statements in regard to whether the child was a girl or boy.<br></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Lucy <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Mack Smith gave birth to </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">stillborn baby sometime between 1796 and 1797</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The exact birthdate </del>is not known. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">What little is known about </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">birth </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">this baby has been confused </del>by <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">conflicting statements </del>in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">regard to whether </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">child </del>was a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">girl or </del>boy.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">For many years the official family group sheet listed the first baby as a girl. Within her preliminary manuscript, at one point (yet to be documented) </ins>Lucy <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">mentions that her firstborn was </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">daughter</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Whether this comes from Lucy’s own memory of her firstborn or is an assumption by Martha Coray who was writing as Lucy dictated, </ins>is not known. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The listing as a girl stood until the 1990’s when </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">family engaged in serious efforts to document all descendants </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Lucy Mack and [https://www.josephsmithsr.com/getperson.php?personID=I34&tree=josephsmithsr Joseph Smith Sr.] After it was discovered, in a statement </ins>by <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Joseph Smith Sr., that </ins>in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">fact </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">firstborn baby </ins>was a boy<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, this became the official information for the family group sheet</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">For many years the official family group sheet listed the first baby </del>as <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a girl. Within her preliminary manuscript</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">at one point (yet to be documented) Lucy mentions that her firstborn was a daughter. Whether this comes from Lucy’s own memory </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">her firstborn or is an assumption </del>by <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Martha Coray who was writing as Lucy dictated</del>, is not <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">known. The listing as a girl stood until the 1990’s when the family engaged </del>in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">serious efforts to document all descendants </del>of Lucy Mack <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and </del>Joseph Smith <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Sr. After it was discovered</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">in a statement </del>by Joseph Smith Sr.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, that in fact </del>the firstborn baby was a boy<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, this </del>became the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">official </del>information <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">for the family group sheet</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">In Mother Smith’s ''“History of Joseph Smith”'', published by Orson Pratt in England, and republished </ins>as, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''“Biographical Sketches </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Joseph Smith and His Progenitors for Many Generations”'', in 1912 </ins>by <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Herald Press, Lamoni, Iowa, p. 33</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the firstborn child </ins>is not <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">mentioned </ins>in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">her list </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">children. </ins>Lucy Mack <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Smith, History of </ins>Joseph Smith <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">by His Mother, edited by Preston Nibley</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">published </ins>by <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Bookcraft, Salt Lake City, UT, 1958, has short biographies for each of the children of Lucy and </ins>Joseph Smith Sr. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">There is no mention of </ins>the firstborn <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">child. That this </ins>baby was a boy became <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">public through various publications; two of </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">sources for this </ins>information <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">are discussed below</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">In Mother Smith’s “History of Joseph Smith”, published </del>by <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Orson Pratt </del>in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">England, </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">republished as, “Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith and His Progenitors for Many Generations”, in 1912 by Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Herald Press, Lamoni, Iowa, p. 33, the firstborn child is not mentioned in her list of children. Lucy Mack Smith, </del>History of Joseph Smith by His Mother<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, edited by Preston Nibley, published by Bookcraft, Salt Lake City, UT, 1958, has short biographies for each of the children of </del>Lucy <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and Joseph Smith Sr. There is no mention of the firstborn child. That this baby was a boy became public through various publications; two of the sources for this information are discussed below</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Of particular note is the information included in a footnote </ins>by <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Scott and Maurine Proctor </ins>in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">their ''“Revised </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Enhanced </ins>History of Joseph Smith by His Mother Lucy <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Mack Smith” p</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">46'':</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Of particular note is the information included in a footnote by Scott and Maurine Proctor in their “Revised and Enhanced History of Joseph Smith by His Mother Lucy Mack Smith” p. 46</del>:</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> <span style="color</ins>:<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">#008000"></ins>Footnote #2 Joseph and Lucy lived on this farm [at Tunbridge, Vermont] from their marriage in January 1796 until 1802. A note of sadness is found in Joseph Smith Sr.’s patriarchal blessing book of 1834 where he addresses the Smith family and speaks of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>“three seats”<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'' </ins>vacated by death among his children: <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>“The Lord in his just providence has taken from me at an untimely birth a son. . . .My next son, Alvin. . . was taken.”<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'' </ins>Joseph and Lucy’s firstborn son was taken in death sometime between the middle of 1796 and the spring of 1797.”<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"></span><br></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Footnote #2 Joseph and Lucy lived on this farm [at Tunbridge, Vermont] from their marriage in January 1796 until 1802. A note of sadness is found in Joseph Smith Sr.’s patriarchal blessing book of 1834 where he addresses the Smith family and speaks of “three seats” vacated by death among his children: “The Lord in his just providence has taken from me at an untimely birth a son. . . .My next son, Alvin. . . was taken.”<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[2] </del>Joseph and Lucy’s firstborn son was taken in death sometime between the middle of 1796 and the spring of 1797.”</div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This information is verified by the following account which is quoted in United by Faith, compiled by Kyle R. Walker, BYU Press, Joseph Smith Sr., by Mark L. McConkie. See page 30:</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This information is verified by the following account which is quoted in United by Faith, compiled by Kyle R. Walker, BYU Press, Joseph Smith Sr., by Mark L. McConkie. See page 30:</div></td></tr>
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