Joseph Smith, Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith Family Organization

August 31

$10,221

	1999	1998	1997
CASH
Checking	$1,350.46	$1,685.04	$1,941.31
Savings	$11,568.81	$16,993.43	$13,644.44
	$12,1919.27	$18,678.47	$15,585.75
INVESTMENTS-COST
US Treasury Bonds	$30,463	$30,463	$30,463
AT&T Corp Bond	$10,221	$10,221
US West Bond	$ 5,429	00	00
Bell South Bond	$16,561	$11,300	$11,300
New Jersey Bell Bond	$20,500	$20,500	$20,500
(FMV @ 8/31/99-$85,056.16)	$83,174	$72,484	$72,484
Fund Equity	$96,093	$91,163	$88,070
Reserve for Nauvoo Temple	$ 1,000	00	00
Foundation equity	$95,093	$91,163	$88,070
	$96,093.41	$91,162.66	$88,069.94
RECEIPTS
Family & other donations	$ 4,687	$2,756	$6,389
Interest income	$ 6,080	$5,919	$5,703
Receipt for NauvooTemple	$1,000	00	00
	$11,766.96	$ 8,674.99	$12,091.59
DISBURSEMENTS
Printing, postage, mail Newsletters, receipts	$ 3,436	$ 168	$ 1,870
Utilities, lawn maint	$ 3,355	$ 4,307	$ 4,856
Check-bank charges	$ 40	$ 35	$ 10
Joseph Hyrum prints	$ 00	$ 695	$ 00
Travel reimbursed	$ 00	$ 371	$ 00
Annual reports	$ 5	$ 5	$ 5
	$ 6,836.21	$ 5,582,27	$ 6,642.10
NET INCREASE	$ 4,930.75	$ 3,092.72	$ 5,349.49

This is just a last note to remind all to please send your annual dues. Our newsletter and research depend on you. Family Biographies will be finished and sent to all current dues payers by years end. These are special personal sketches prepared by our Foundation historian, Mark McConkie. If you aren’t certain when you last paid the $10.00, please call the office of Spence Nilson at 801-484-8856. Please use the enclosed envelope and card. If you know of living Smiths descendants that don’t receive the newsletter please send their addresses by copying the card and sending them to the return address on the newsletter or emailing to c.frogley@m.cc.utah.edu.

Thank you

As can be seen by the insert, another picture of some members of the Smith Family have again been offered to our family organization at a discount for members and as a small fund raiser for research projects. We will not handle any of the orders or moneys. David Lindley, the artist and student of D.J. Bawdin’s forensic findings will handle your orders directly, donating a percentage to the Foundation. Instructions and order-form are enclosed with this newsletter.

It isn’t enough to teach the children. You must teach the children to teach the children. Imparting life and family values inter-generationally is a constant challenge for parents and grandparents. As an umbrella organization The Foundation works to facilitate this process. We would like to publish a Smith Family Quote book on their life and family values that could then be used by parents and grandparents to communicate the values of the early Smiths. Please send, by either US mail to the return address on this newsletter or email at: c.frogley@m.cc.utah.edu, any Smith family documented quotes (sound bites) that communicate both practical and eternal values.

The Family Organization Coordinating Committee meets each month to review status, progress, and research on each of the lines from the Children of Joseph Sr. and Lucy.

Representatives include:
HYRUM- LIVING
-Lovina: Roger Anderson 435-846-3301 4,484
-John Wilburta Moore 801-595-8131 ukwn
-Joseph F. Mary Donoho 801-546-4707 20,000
-Jerusha Ben Donoho 801-546-4707
-Martha Ann Carole King 435-876-3273 1,000
-Sarah LaRene Gaunt 801-572-0169
JOSEPH Jr- Michael Kennedy801-756-1091 800
SAMUEL Robert Smith 801-489-7589 450
WILLIAM Michael Nebeker 801-942-5053 ukwn
CATHERINE Marge Porter 801-876-3265 ukwn
LUCY ukwn

Since this is continual work in progress we will update this data frequently with the invitation to please help by registering all known family members with your own family organization or through one of the committee.

Gracia and Ivor Jones-Liaison Committee to the Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith Family Foundation September 21, 1999 report on trip to Montana-A DESCENDANT SEARCH…

When Ivor retired August 1, we were at last free to begin our journey to find and get acquainted with our relatives who are scattered all over the United States,
Canada, Mexico, and the world. Traveling with Dean and Jaynann Payne in their beautiful 32 foot motor home, we left Provo, Utah, on August 25th. In 27 days we have covered 2500 miles. We took I-15, north from Utah into Montana, visiting family from Butte to Kalispell, then skirted Glacier National Park on Highway 2, went to Cardston and Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. We visited families in the great wheat country in Eastern Montana, we stopped briefly in Great Falls to see the C.M. Russell museum, visited the Bighorn Battlefield. We visited friends on a cattle ranch, and old friends in Billings, Montana.

We have visited in the homes of 24 families, all descendants of of Alexander Hale Smith, 2 families of Hyrums descendants. At meetings and firesides, we met 8 more descendants of Hyrum, and 3 families who are descendants of Samuel. We regret that due to timing and circumstances beyond our control we missed 5 families,
within the area we traveled. We hope to visit them at a later date. Wherever we went we found the families warm and welcoming, eager to share their homes and lives with us. They fed us too well! We brought our Dutch-ovens with us, and at several homes were able to treat our hosts and relatives to a real Dixie feast. (Gracia and Ivor are from Utah’s Dixie – ed. Note)

We have found that there is a very real need for strengthening the bonds and ties of the family. We have encouraged developing grandfather organizations
and holding family get-togethers. This has struck a chord everywhere we went. Plans have already begun for such events to be held in the coming year. We can
add several new names and addresses to the Foundation database.

We received the unexpected bonus of being given copies of precious old pictures to add to the collection we already have. We also obtained copies of some personal
writings of family members who have passed on; we gathered some taped stories and took a lot of photos everywhere we went. We were able to present one dear young cousin with a photo of her grandfather as a young man–one she had never seen before. We were also able to bring several cousins together who had not met each
other before, and united others who had met years ago, but had not seen each other in many years. They had not known, until we arrived, that they lived within twenty miles of each other.

This first trip has confirmed our feelings that this is a worthwhile endeavor. Our plans include a return trip to Montana in early October, then we will head for
Washington, Oregon, and California. Winter will find us in Arizona, and Utah. We have word that Bill Wright, a cousin from Australia, is coming at New Years. Later in the Spring we expect to visit Australia. In future trips we plan to go to Texas, New Mexico, then to the mid-west, etc. There are family members in nearly every state of the Union, and Mexico. In due time we hope to visit as many
of the family as we can find.

Our hope is to hold some get-togethers in various locations where clusters of the extended family reside. Anyone interested in helping host or just participating in
such events, please let us know. Write to: Gracia and Ivor Jones, 557 E. 400 S. St. George, UT 84770, or e-mail us at ivorandgracia@gmail.com.