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Show BIOGRAPHY OF WARREN BARNES SMITH - Corrpiles by his daughter, Sarah Smith M:)nson, July 29, 1977 Warren Barnes Smith was the son of Warren and Amanda Barnes Smith. Amanda (the rrother) was a survivor of the terrible Haun' s Mill Massacre. Her husband, warren Smith, and son, Sardius, were rrurdered. Another son, Alma, had his hip blown away by a rrobber' s bullet but was miraculously · healed because of his rrother's applications of poultices and through her great faith and prayers. As soon as her little son Alna was sufficiently recovered to travel, Amanda prepared for a journey to Quincey, Illinois, with her four small children, and there she stayed with friends for a while. While staying in Illinois she net a wido.ver with five children whose nane was Warren Smith, (alth:mgh he was not related) and he, like her first husband, was a blacksmith by trade. He made a good living. He needed a rrother for his five children, and she, a provider for her four. A irutual attachrrent sprang up between them and they were soon married, thus rraking a family of nine children. There was unity and peace anong the children and perfect love and harnony between herself and husband, according to her own remrd. Soon after, they rroved to Nauvoo, Illinois. There they had three children born to them, one son and two daughters: Amanda M:!lvira, who died at nine rronths; Warren Barnes, my father; and Sarah Ma.rim.a. Warren Barnes Smith was born in Nauvoo, Illinois, Decerrber 20, 1844, about six nonths after the rra.rtyrdom of the prophet, Josep-1 Smith, and his brother Hyrum in Carthage Jail. When Father was six years of age, the family crossed the plains, his father being captain of his own conpany of pioneers. They landed in Salt Lake City in the year of 1850. He was baptized a member of the Olurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City by Janes 1-tKnight, in 1853. When twelve years of age he cane to Arrerican Fork and lived with his half sister, M:!lissa Smith M:)tt, who was a daughter of his father. From then on Arrerican Fork was his hone, where he grew up and participated in comm.mity activities, enduring the privations of pioneer life and endeavored to live his religion as a consistent Latter-day Saint. He was very faithful in his duties in the Church and was advanced to the different offices in the lesser Priesthood. When he was twenty-two of age, he was ordained an elder, February, 1866. Father married his first wife, Elizabeth Echo ~rcer, October 11, 1865, (sealed February 24, 1866) in Arrerican Fork, Utah. There were ten children born to them, three boys and seven girls. They made their hone in Arrerican Fork, Utah. At this tine there was trouble between the Indians and the pioneer settlers. It lasted for three years, from 1865-1867. It was called the |
