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The Martyrs Seed is an online, in-process biography of Joseph F. Smith
by Scott G. Kenney.
| 01 | Rachel and Mary Fielding | Rachel Ibbotson, raised in a strict Calvinist home, orphaned as a child, converts to Methodism, marries a Methodist minister and raises a large family; stern, undemonstrative mother with high expectations; well known for her acts of charity and "a word in season for all." Mary inherits many of her mother's traits; refuses proposal of marriage; family's poor financial condition. | |
| 02 | Toronto |
Mary's brother and sister, Joseph and Mercy, leave for Canada; Canadian Methodism; William Patrick and the study group; Irvingites. Family primitivist congregations grow in England but Mary is destitute; at thirty-three she leaves her aging father to join her brother and sister in Toronto; the study group continues; John and Leonora Cannon Taylor. |
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| Memoir of Mrs. Rachel Fielding | Biographical sketch of Joseph F.'s grandmother by his Aunt Ann, written in 1830. | ||
Link to a BYU page containing a sound
clip of Joseph F. Smith's voice from an early wax recording.