Jane Manning James
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Jane Elizabeth Manning James, fondly known as "Aunt Jane", was an early African-American member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and traveled to Utah as a pioneer. She lived with Jos
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Emma Smith
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Emma Hale Smith Bidamon was a leader in the early Latter Day Saint movement and a prominent member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints as well as the first wife of Joseph Sm
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…continued to live with the Smith family and worked as a domestic servant in the Mansion House until Smith's assassination in 1844. James recorded that Emma (Joseph's wife) or Lucy (Joseph's mother) would often stop her and talk with her as she went about doing the washing and cleaning in the house. On one…
Emma Hale Smith circa 1845 with David Hyrum Smith
Statue of Joseph and Emma Smith in Salt Lake City
Emma Smith in riding habit in Nauvoo. Emma and other women of Nauvoo would sometimes accompany the Nauvoo Legion on horseback.
Emma Smith, painted by Lee Greene Richards