"Joseph Smith III says repeatedly that Lucian Foster made a daguerreotype of his father. The family believed that there was one made, and there have been historians from both traditions (Community ...

“The locket shows up on prominent Smith family women through the years,” Mackay said. Bertha Madison Smith, who married one of Joseph Jr. and Emma’s sons, wore it in a portrait in 186 ...

He said the 1831 edition of the Bible was originally purchased by Joseph Smith Jr. when the family lived in Kirtland, Ohio. It's been out of sight for many years, apparently cherished for ...

“and I believe Joseph knows that, too.” Based on 19th-century newspaper quotes and correspondence between LDS and RLDS members, historians and Smith family members long believed that there was ...

That is still the case in the family. Why do you think there’s such eagerness among followers to identify a photograph of Joseph Smith? Because there hasn’t been one. It’s a mystery ...

Further, she wonders why the researchers presumed that all objects owned by Emma and handed down in her family had a direct connection to Joseph Smith. “Did Emma own nothing that came to her ...

Watching Utah Twitter blow up over Joseph Smith maybe looking like a ... in Nauvoo in the 1840s and that it passed through the Smith family inside a locket for nearly 180 years.

So when it comes to portraying Joseph Smith in movies ... Lund’s historical novels, depicting the fictional Steed family against the backdrop of the church’s creation and migration to Utah.

As others look at what Latter-day Saints believe and try to come up with artificial and commercial responses, '1820: The Musical' is meant to characterize Joseph Smith by using records of family ...

Born in Hatfield on August 27, 1796, just a few miles from Northampton, Sophia was the fourth of seven children—and the first daughter—of Joseph Smith, a prosperous farmer, and his wife, Lois White ...