Search for Father and Mother

The Family needs your help. Do you have hidden somewhere in your family storage, documents that might give detail on the location of the graves of Father and Mother Smith? We have met as a greater Smith family for 20 years to honor the memory of Joseph Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith. We have shared their stories, grief, triumphs and hopes for a future posterity. We have memorialized their lives and children in a beautiful cemetery without knowing exactly where Father and Mother Smith laid their mortal remains. The search extends back to the years of Joseph F. Smith, their grandson. Audentia, Joseph the prophet’s granddaughter, also inquired after the location. During those years, the remains of Joseph, Emma and Hyrum were relocated and a fitting marker established that has even been updated. All the while, our best effort towards Father and Mother Smith, was to place a general plaque indicating that somewhere in the vicinity, our namesakes were buried. Then one snowy afternoon last year Buddy Youngreen presented two documents that when read together seemed to indicate the location of the lost graves and the search was again a reality. Over the intervening months, other contradictory documents surfaced calling into question the location. Coincident with the search another discovery was taking place!

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