Sue wrote: > Hi Liz: > > Boy, I wonder if this Joseph Smith you are looking for is related to the > family of Joseph Smith the founder and prophet of the LDS Church. It might > be a good lead to follow, because the Prophet Joseph Smith was involved at > Elmira, N.Y. I have some books that might help determine if this is the > case. There maybe be members of the LDS Church on the message board too, who > might have more info. ??? Check out family search for his pedigree. I am > sure it is prominent elsewhere on the web too. I > Sue To which Julia replied: > Are you sure he didn't move to PALMYRA? .^_^. > > Just kidding, of course. > > --- On Fri, 6/11/10, Dave & Liz DuBois <ddubois@sinclair.net <http://newmail.core.com/src/compose.php?send_to=ddubois%40sinclair.net>> wrote: > > ...Joseph Smith...moved to Elmira, NY > > Liz Excerpted from "The Ancestry & Posterity of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale" by Audentia Smith Anderson (1926) Founder, first president and Prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons). In 1826 Joseph Smith [born 23 Dec 1805 in Sharon, Windsor, VT] made the acquaintance of Emma, the daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth (Lewis) Hale, well-to-do farmers living near Harmony (now Oakland), Susquehanna Co., PA. They were married at S. Bainbridge (now Afton), Chenango Co., NY, in the home of Esquire Tarbell, who performed the ceremony. They lived successively near _PALMYRA_ and Manchester, NY, and Harmony, PA, where in 1830 he was deeded twenty-eight acres of land by his father-in-law, copy of the transfer being still in the land offices of that county. Soon after this they moved to Kirtland, Lake Co., OH, and in 1837, to MO, and were among those who were forcibly driven from Caldwell Co. in 1838. In the spring of 1839 they established their home in Commerce, now Nauvoo, Hancock Co., IL, where they passed the rest of their lives. Best regards, Pam Sears