Martha Ann (Sessions) Smoot (1835 - 1877)

Born 21 Sep 1835 in Newry, Oxford, Maine, United States

Ancestors

Wife of William Cochran (Adkinson) Smoot — married 29 Jan 1852 in Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States

Died 12 Jan 1877 at age 41 in Sugar House, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States

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Martha became a member of the LDS Church between 1830 - 1848.

Martha (Sessions) Smoot was a Latter Day Saint pioneer.

Biography

Martha was born on September 22, 1835 in Newry, Oxford, Maine, United States. She was the daughter of Perrigrine Sessions and Julia Ann Killgore/Kilgore, the oldest of Perrigrine's reported 55 children.^[1][2][3]

Her father became an early member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints shortly before she was born, with her mother following suit a year later. Martha's family moved to Missouri when she was very young, arriving around November of 1836 or 1837. They left Missouri for Illinois in February 1839 and were living in the city of Nauvoo by 1840.^[1]

Martha Ann was baptized into the LDS church on September 21, 1843.^[3]

Martha's mother Julia died in January 1845. Later that year, her father married sisters Lucina and Mary Call as polygamous wives.^[1]

In early 1846, Martha's family left Nauvoo for Winter Quarters, Nebraska.^[1] On June 5, 1847, she set out west for Utah with the Daniel Spencer and Perrigrine Sessions pioneer company, traveling with her father, his two wives, her younger brother Carlos, and her paternal grandparents David and Patty Sessions. They arrived in the Salt Lake Valley on September 24, 1847.^[4]

In 1950, Martha was living in Salt Lake County, Utah with her grandmother Patty Bartlett Sessions.^[5]

Martha married William Cochran Adkinson Smoot on January 29, 1852 in Salt Lake, Utah.^[3]

She died on January 12, 1877 in Sugar House, Salt Lake, Utah, apparently from complications following a birth.^[6][2][3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Sessions, Perrigrine. Autobiography and diary entries of Perrigrine Sessions [microform] : approximately 1839-1876. Call no. MSS MFilm 00631 item 02. Mormonism and the West, Huntington Digital Library. Digitized originals available via Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Sessions, Perrigrine 1814-1893. Perrigrine Sessions reminiscences and diaries, 1839-1886 (accessed February 15, 2021).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27383087/martha-ann-smoot : accessed 23 September 2021), memorial page for Martha Ann Sessions Smoot (22 Sep 1835–12 Jan 1877), Find A Grave: Memorial #27383087, citing Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA ; Maintained by SMSmith (contributor 46491005) .
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} Membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints 1830-1848, Volume 38, "Martha Ann Sessions", page 734 (image 747 of 1014). RUS—SHE Compiled by Susan Ward Easton Black, Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University. Digital scans available via FamilySearch.
4. ↑ “Martha Ann Sessions,” Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868, Pioneer Database, 1847–1868. Compiled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/overlandtravel.
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCS6-R8H : 23 December 2020), Martha Ann Sessions in household of Patty Sessions, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
6. ↑ "Utah, Salt Lake City Cemetery Records, 1847-1976", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ZN26-KYT2 : 17 July 2020), Martha Ann Smoot, 1877.

See also:

• Find A Grave: Memorial #27383087
• FamilySearch profile

Census records:

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCS6-R8H : 23 December 2020), Martha Ann Sessions in household of Patty Sessions, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH2W-LMS : 18 February 2021), Martha Ann Smoot in entry for Wm C A Smoot, 1860.