Born in Manchester, Ontario, New York, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of Hyrum Smith
and Jerusha Barden
Sister of
Mary Smith, John Smith, Hyrum Smith Jr., Jerusha Smith, Sarah (Smith) Griffin, Joseph Fielding Smith [half] and Martha Ann Smith [half]
Wife of
Lorin Edwin Walker
— married
23 Jun 1844 in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
Descendants 
Mother of
Hyrum Smith Walker Sr., Isabella Rosalie Walker, Jerusha Celeste (Walker) Blanchard, Edwina Mariah Walker, Emma Irene (Walker) Richards, William Arthur Walker, Sarah Ellen Helen Walker, Lucy Lovina Walker, John Lorin Walker, Joseph Frederick Walker, Don Carlos Walker, Charles Henry Walker and David Henry Walker
Died
at age 49
in Farmington, Davis, Utah, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 27 Sep 2010
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Lovina (Smith) Walker was a Latter Day Saint pioneer.
Biography
Lovina Walker formerly Smith, was born September 16, 1827 to Hyrum Smith and Jerusha Barden in Manchester, New York.[1]
Lovina married Lorin Walker, June 23, 1844 in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States.[2] She is the mother of Hyrum Smith Sr. Walker, Isabella Rosalie Walker, Jerusha Celeste Walker, Edwina Mariah Walker, Emma Irene Walker, William Arthur Walker, Sarah Ellen Helen Walker, Lucy Lovina Walker, John Lorin Walker, Joseph Frederick Walker, Don Carlos Walker, Charles Henry Walker and David Henry Walker.[3]
Lovina and Lorin are first noted as traveling to Utah with the Samuel Gully/Orson Spencer Company (1849) when their son Hyrum Smith Walker was just an infant.[4]
Lovina and. Lorin Walker are also listed as joining the John Smith Overland Travel Company for the trek to Utah in 1860, perhaps assisting others to make the journey.[5] They encountered many hardships along the way.
Read The Immigration, narratives from Trail Excepts describing the trials of the journey
Lovina died October 8, 1876 in Farmington, Utah Territory. She is buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake, Utah. [6]
Sources
- ↑ List of Descendants of Joseph Smith and Lucy Mack Smith.
- ↑ Joseph Smith Papers.
- ↑ List of Descendants of Joseph Smith and Lucy Mack Smith.
- ↑ Pioneer Overland Travel.
- ↑ John Smith Company, Pioneer Overland Travels.
- ↑ Find a Grave Memorial for. Lovina Walker.
- Pioneer Overland Travels John Smith Company
- Michigan Historical Collections, Volume 18 By Michigan Historical Commission
- "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NQHG-YQJ : 4 August 2017), Lavina Walker, 08 Oct 1876; citing Farmington, Management and Archives, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 4,139,616.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Lovina by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Lovina:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Lovina by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Lovina:
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~6.25%
Tom McCoy
:
23andMe, GEDmatch FF9788980 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch AB5437838 [compare]
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~1.56%
Kimberly Smith :
23andMe, GEDmatch ZQ6482092 [compare]
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~1.56%
S Parker :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member SP
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~1.56%
Andrea (Harper) Burge :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch RE6123387 [compare]
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Cari (Ebert) Starosta
Calle Craig
Cari (Ebert) Starosta
Smith-93922 and Smith-3447 appear to represent the same person because: same birth, death, parent, siblings
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by Cari (Ebert) Starosta
Calle Craig
I share a birthday with my grandmother, Lovina Smith. :)
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by Calle Craig
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