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Margaret Thompson McMeans Atkinson Smoot (known as "Ma" Smoot) was born in Chester, South Carolina, on April 16, 1809. She was already a widow with one son when she married Abraham Owen Smoot in Missouri in 1838. When members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were expelled from Missouri, the Smoots lived for a time in Iowa before eventually settling in Provo, Utah. In Utah, Abraham Smoot became the second mayor of Salt Lake City and was a supporter of the Brigham Young Academy (Brigham Young University). Margaret Smoot died in Provo on September 1, 1884.

From the description of A memento and tribute of respect to Margaret T. Smoot from her family and friends on her sixty-seventh birthday this Easter Sunday, April 16, anno domini 1876, and in the centennial year of the independence of the United States, 1880, December 29. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 557493129