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Smith, Asahel

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21 May 1773

Temple Records Index Bureau, Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register, 11.

Temple Records Index Bureau of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register, 10 December 1845 to 8 February 1846. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1974.

–22 July 1848.

Anderson, Joseph Smith’s New England Heritage, 273–274.

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Anderson, Richard Lloyd. Joseph Smith’s New England Heritage: Influences of Grandfathers Solomon Mack and Asael Smith. Rev. ed. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book; Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 2003.

Farmer.

1820 U.S. Census, Stockholm, St. Lawrence Co., NY, 148[A].

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Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.

Born at Windham, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire.

Temple Records Index Bureau, Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register, 11.

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Son of Asael Smith and Mary Duty.

Temple Records Index Bureau, Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register, 11; “Asael Jr. Smith,” born 21 May 1773, Individual Record, FamilySearch International Genealogical Index (North America region) (accessed 29 Mar. 2012).

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FamilySearch International Genealogical Index. Compiled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=igi/search_IGI.asp&clear_form=true.

Moved to Dunbarton, Hillsborough Co., New Hampshire, 15 Apr. 1774; to Derryfield (later Manchester), Hillsborough Co., New Hampshire, 1778; and to Tunbridge, Orange Co., Vermont, 1791.

Anderson, Lucy’s Book, 864–865.

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Anderson, Lavina Fielding, ed. Lucy’s Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith’s Family Memoir. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2001.

Married Elizabeth Schellenger of Royalton, Windsor Co., Vermont, 21 Mar. 1802.

“Asahel Smith,” married 21 Mar. 1802, Individual Record, FamilySearch International Genealogical Index (North America region) (accessed 29 Mar. 2012).

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Moved to Stockholm, St. Lawrence Co., New York, 1809.

“Smith, Asahel,” in Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, 1:182.

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Jenson, Andrew. Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 4 vols. Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson History Co., 1901–1936.

Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Lyman E. Johnson, June 1835, at Stockholm.

“Smith, Asahel,” in Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, 1:182; “Smith, Asahel,” in Black, Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830–1848, 39:697.

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Black, Susan Easton, comp. Membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830–1848. 50 vols. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Department of Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University, 1989. Also available as “Membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830–1848,” LDS Family History Suite: LDS Vital Records Library, CD-ROM ([Provo], UT: Infobases, Inc., 1996).

Migrated to Kirtland, Geauga Co., Ohio, 1836.

Anderson, Lucy’s Book, 865.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Anderson, Lavina Fielding, ed. Lucy’s Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith’s Family Memoir. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2001.

Appointed to Kirtland high council, 3 Sept. 1837.

Letter to John Corril and the Church in Missouri, 4 Sept. 1837; Minute Book 1, 3 and 9 Sept. 1837.

Moved to Iowa Territory, 1839.

“Smith, Asahel,” in Black, Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830–1848, 39:698.

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Appointed to Iowa stake high council, 5 Oct. 1839.

JS Letterbook 2, p. 197; “Smith, Asahel,” in Black, Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830–1848, 39:698.

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JS Letterbook 2 / Smith, Joseph. “Copies of Letters, &c. &c.,” 1839–1843. Joseph Smith Collection, 1827–1846. CHL. MS 155, box 2, fd. 2.

Ordained a patriarch, 7 Oct. 1844, in Nauvoo, Hancock Co., Illinois.

“Smith, Asahel,” in Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, 1:182.

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Died at Iowaville, Van Buren Co., Iowa.

Anderson, Joseph Smith’s New England Heritage, 273–274.

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