Smoot, Margaret T. (Margaret Thompson), 1809-1884

Mayor of Provo, Utah, president of the Utah Stake, and a member of the board of trustees of Brigham Young Academy.

Abraham Owen Smoot was born February 17, 1815, in Owenton Franklin County (later Owen County), Kentucky, son of George Washington and Ann Rowlett Smoot. He had two brothers, William Rowlett and Reed, and three sisters, Nancy Beal S. Freeman, Marstisha S. Smith and Jemimah S. Peck. When he was nine years old his father died. His mother later married Levi Taylor.

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