Part of Samuel SMITH's Gravestone

Biographical Stone Samuel SMITH Mormon Pioneer, Seventy, Counselor to Lorenzo SNOW, Post Master, Judge, Mayor, High Priest, Patriarch.

Stone Reads:

Removed from Sherington to London in 1838. Joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Dec. 1841. Sailed from Liverpool with his Parents and family for American Jan. 15th 1843. Arrived at Nauvoo in April and was ordained a Seventy the same year. Came to Salt Lake City in 1850 and moved to Big Cottonwood. Was called to Brigham City in 1855, where hewas chosen a counsellor to Apostle Lorenzo Snow, who was presiding in Box Elder Stake. Was appointed Post Master of Brigham City in 1855, and continued in that position about 17 years. Was elected Probate Judge of Box Elder County in 1858, and served the people in that office for 15 years. Was elected Mayor of Brigham City in 1879, and re-elected in 1881. After the Reorganization of the Stake, he was Chosen president of the High Priests Quorum, and after was ordained a patriarch to the Stake, which latter positions he held at his death.

click on image to enlarge and read Ancestry Chain: 3rd great-grandparents Samuel SMITH b.1818 and Sarah Jane INGRAM b.1841, Isaac SMITH b.1857, George Ensign SMITH b.1898, Camilla SMITH b.1926, Lark, JR.