Smith, Mary T. (Mary Taylor), 1865-1956

Mary T. Smith (1865-1956) was a wife of Joseph F. Smith.

Mary Taylor Schwartz was born on April 30, 1865 in Holliday, Utah. The niece of President John Taylor, she married Joseph F. Smith in 1884. Together they had seven children: John, Calvin, Samuel, James, Agnes, Silias and Royal Grant. She died in Salt Lake City, Utah on December 5, 1956.

Joseph F. Smith (1838-1918) was the sixth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Joseph F. Smith was born in Far West, Missouri on November 13, 1838. Following his father's death in 1844 he migrated west with his mother, settling in Salt Lake City, Utah by 1848. He was elected to the Utah territorial legislature in 1865 (serving until 1874), and was called to serve as an apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1866. He became president of the Church in 1901, where he served until his death on November 19, 1918.

President Smith married six times. He married Levira Annette Clark Smith in 1859, Julia Lambson in 1866, Sarah Ellen Richards in 1868, Edna Lambson in 1871, Alice Ann Kimball in 1883, and Mary Taylor Schwartz in 1884. He had forty three children.

From the guide to the Joseph F. Smith letters, 1884-1918, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections)