Jerusha <I>Barden</I> Smith

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Jerusha Barden Smith

Birth
Norfolk, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
Death
13 Oct 1837 (aged 32)
Kirtland, Lake County, Ohio, USA
Burial
Kirtland, Lake County, Ohio, USA GPS-Latitude: 41.6259634, Longitude: -81.3632924
Plot
Sec B Lot 75 #7
Memorial ID
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Daughter of Seth Barden and Sarah Ann Finch

Married Hyrum Smith, 2 Nov 1826, Manchester, Ontario, New York

Children - Jerusha Smith, Sarah Smith, Hyrum Smith, Mary Smith, Lovina Smith, John Smith

History - Jerusha lived with her parents near Palmyra, born 15 Feb 1805, the youngest of a family of five children. As a pretty girl of 21 she married Hyrum Smith in Manchester, Manchester NY, 2 Nov 1826. She was baptized by David Whitmer in Seneca Lake on 9 June following the first confernece of June 1930. They had 6 children: Lovina, Mary, John, Hyrum, Jerusha, and Sarah in the years 1827,1829, 1832, Hyrum 1834, Jerusha 1836, and Sarah 1837. In the year 1837, when the hardships of the Saints were at their worst, when her husband was called away on Church business, Jerusha and her child Mary dies. Hyrum was left with 5 children, the oldest Lovina, 11, and the youngest Sarah, only 11 days old. Later, Hyrum married Mary Fielding, another noble women in Church history. Mary Fielding raised Jerusha's children as if they were her own along with her own children Joseph F. Smith & Martha Ann Smith.

(Kirtland, Ohio ; Far West, Mo.) (1837)
Subject: Church periodicals
Publisher: Kirtland, Ohio Far West, Mo. Thomas B. Marsh

Obituary published in the Elders Journal, October 1837 edition, Volume 1, No. 1, Kirtland Ohio, p 16.

OBITUARY
Died, in this place on the 13th Inst, after an illness of about ten days, Mrs. Jerusha T. Smith, the wife of Hyrum Smith. She has left five small children together with numerous relatives to mourn her loss, a loss which is severely felt, by all.

Our Sister was beloved and highly esteemed by every lover of truth and virtue; but she has been taken from us in an untimely, or rather an unexpected hour, as her companion was from home perhaps near one thousand miles at the time of her decease, and was deprived of the privilege of witnessing her exit from a world of sorrow and perplexity, to the paradise of God.

But, Alas! she is gone home! yes, (using her own language to one of her tender offsprings when on her dying bed,) "Tell your father when he comes that the Lord has taken your mother home, and left you for him to take care of."

She had her senses until the last, and fell asleep, leaving this assurance behind as a reward for leaving all that was dear for the sake of a risen Savior, and enduring in faith on his name to the end, that she should have a part in the first resurrection, and come forth and inherit the mansion that is prepared for the faithful, and receive the welcome plaudit "Come ye blest of my Father inherit that kingdom prepared for you from before the foundation of the world."
Daughter of Seth Barden and Sarah Ann Finch

Married Hyrum Smith, 2 Nov 1826, Manchester, Ontario, New York

Children - Jerusha Smith, Sarah Smith, Hyrum Smith, Mary Smith, Lovina Smith, John Smith

History - Jerusha lived with her parents near Palmyra, born 15 Feb 1805, the youngest of a family of five children. As a pretty girl of 21 she married Hyrum Smith in Manchester, Manchester NY, 2 Nov 1826. She was baptized by David Whitmer in Seneca Lake on 9 June following the first confernece of June 1930. They had 6 children: Lovina, Mary, John, Hyrum, Jerusha, and Sarah in the years 1827,1829, 1832, Hyrum 1834, Jerusha 1836, and Sarah 1837. In the year 1837, when the hardships of the Saints were at their worst, when her husband was called away on Church business, Jerusha and her child Mary dies. Hyrum was left with 5 children, the oldest Lovina, 11, and the youngest Sarah, only 11 days old. Later, Hyrum married Mary Fielding, another noble women in Church history. Mary Fielding raised Jerusha's children as if they were her own along with her own children Joseph F. Smith & Martha Ann Smith.

(Kirtland, Ohio ; Far West, Mo.) (1837)
Subject: Church periodicals
Publisher: Kirtland, Ohio Far West, Mo. Thomas B. Marsh

Obituary published in the Elders Journal, October 1837 edition, Volume 1, No. 1, Kirtland Ohio, p 16.

OBITUARY
Died, in this place on the 13th Inst, after an illness of about ten days, Mrs. Jerusha T. Smith, the wife of Hyrum Smith. She has left five small children together with numerous relatives to mourn her loss, a loss which is severely felt, by all.

Our Sister was beloved and highly esteemed by every lover of truth and virtue; but she has been taken from us in an untimely, or rather an unexpected hour, as her companion was from home perhaps near one thousand miles at the time of her decease, and was deprived of the privilege of witnessing her exit from a world of sorrow and perplexity, to the paradise of God.

But, Alas! she is gone home! yes, (using her own language to one of her tender offsprings when on her dying bed,) "Tell your father when he comes that the Lord has taken your mother home, and left you for him to take care of."

She had her senses until the last, and fell asleep, leaving this assurance behind as a reward for leaving all that was dear for the sake of a risen Savior, and enduring in faith on his name to the end, that she should have a part in the first resurrection, and come forth and inherit the mansion that is prepared for the faithful, and receive the welcome plaudit "Come ye blest of my Father inherit that kingdom prepared for you from before the foundation of the world."


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