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.

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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.

1880 typescript of notes from an 1876 celebration of Margaret Smoot's sixty-seventh birthday. Includes tributes from her husband Abraham Smoot; Abraham's plural wives Emily, Diana, and Annie K. (Anna Kirstine); Maggie Smoot (Mrs. Wilson H. Dusenberry) and Zina Smoot (Emily's daughters); Nancy D. Smoot and Olive Smoot (Diana's daughters); Anna Christina (Teenie) Smoot and Alice Smoot (Annie's daughters); Abraham O. Smoot, Jr. (Diana's son); Josephine Smoot (Margaret's granddaughter); Laprele Daniels; J.T.R. Johnson; Caroline M. Johnson; Martha J. Coray; Harvey H. Cluff; Margaret A. Cluff; Isaac O. Bullock; S.S. Jones; Julia Jones; Annie M. Jones; Polly Jones; Joseph B. Keeler; Addie E. Dusenberry; David John; Mary John; A.F. MacDonald; Elizabeth G. MacDonald; James William Bean (who later married Olive); Electa Bullock (who later married Abraham Jr.); and Myron Newel (who later married Alice). Most are addressed to "Ma" or "Mother in Israel." Also includes brief descriptions of the families of Abraham Smoot's wives Diana Eldrege (b. 1837) and Anna Kirstine Mourison (b. Norway 1833). Also includes a letter on the manuscript's provenance from Juanita Brooks, noting that "Mr. Smoot thinks this illustrates life in polygamy at its finest and best."

1 typescript, 10 pages.

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

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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 Tayl...

Smoot, A. O. (Abraham Owen), 1815-1895

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Abraham O. Smoot was born 17 February 1815 in Owenton, Franklin County (later Owen County), Kentucky. He was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1835, when twenty years old, and led a group of Saints from the south to Far West, Missouri in 1837. He later served as captain of the second company to enter the Salt Lake Valley, arriving in September of 1847. He served approximately nine different missions for the Church, acted as president of the Perpetual Emigrating Fun...

Bean, Olive Smoot.

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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 (...

Smoot, Anna Christina (Teenie),

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