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Posted by: Mary Lou ( )
Date: November 23, 2013 03:30PM
Looked up Lucy Mack Smith on Wikipedia

It is interesting to see the entry for Lucy Mack Smith on Wikipedia.Her history closely resembles her son's. Lots of visions, preaching, etc. No wonder Joseph started a new religion.
"Lucy's older brother, Jason, became a "seeker" and eventually formed his own religious community; her two older sisters each had a visionary confirmation that their sins were forgiven and that God called them to "witness" to others of the need for repentance. Such gestures of piety were expected in the highly charged revivalist climate of the day. As historians have noted, clergymen "encouraged people to induce 'visions'" (Buel, 11). Lucy's father, after a period of acute suffering in body and mind, underwent his own religious conversion in 1810."

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