This is an artile I read and it made me sad to think that this woman had to live this way and yet she is an important figure in your Latter Day History. >From her point of view it sounds like there was a major division. Laura
Emma Hale Smith was born in 1804, in Pennsylvania. She was the wife of Joseph Smith, having married him in 1827, and was the first president of what would come to be one of the world's largest and oldest women's organizations, the Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As Joseph Smith began compiling revelations and teachings that would become the foundation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Emma collected songs for the LDS Church's first hymn book. Emma did not agree with all the new church doctrines, such as the practice of plural marriage. When Joseph Smith was assassinated in 1844, Emma Smith did not join the church's migration west to Utah. Instead she married Lewis Bidamon, a non-Mormon. Emma believed that her son Joseph Smith III, should lead the religious movement that her husband founded. When this did not happen Emma left the LDS Church and joined the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Emma Smith died in 1879, in Nauvoo Illinois. ---------- "Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man." (Colossians 4:6) http://www.InnGlory.org If you do not want to receive posts from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you will be unsubscribed. If you have a friend who wants to join, tell him to send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and he will be subscribed.
