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Lucy Mack Smith House |
Lucy Mack Smith House
Nauvoo, Illinois |
Lucy Mack Smith, mother of the Prophet Joseph Smith, lived in this lovely little home, built by Joseph Noble, for several months in 1846. She was seventy-one years old and suffered from severe arthritis. | |
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Biography |
Lucy Mack Smith was born July 8, 1775 at Gilsum, Cheshire County, New Hampshire. She married Joseph Smith, Sr. January 24, 1796 at Turnbridge, Vermont. They were the parents of eight sons and three daughters. Lucy was baptized April 6, 1830 at Fayette, New York and endowed on or before October 8, 1843 in the upper floor of Joseph Smith's Mansion House and in the Nauvoo Temple on December 11, 1845.After arriving in Nauvoo, she and her husband lived in a log cabin on the Joseph Smith homestead property. Later they moved into a new home on the southeast corner of Main and Water streets. She then moved into this house after the Mormon Exodus of 1846. After the death of her son, Joseph, she wanted to go west with the Saints but due to ill health and other considerations, she remained in Nauvoo with her daughter, Lucy Millikin. She died and was buried here in 1856, at the age of eighty. | | |
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