Joseph’s brother Hyrum spent weeks holding the swollen leg to relieve the pressure until a doctor could be found to treat it. (More than 6,000 died in this epidemic regionally.) The fever cleared, but the infection eventually settled in his leg. Typhoid FeverĪ remarkable incident in his childhood occurred while the family was living in Lebanon, New Hampshire, in 1811, when Joseph, among many others, contracted typhoid fever. Of Joseph’s early life, his mother, Lucy, remarked that he seemed a very ordinary boy accustomed to hard work and deep meditation, but not inclined to reading much. This forced the family to continue the hard-scrabble life of farming, which they did by purchasing some uncleared land just south of Palmyra. While in Vermont, the family lost much of their money trying to become Ginseng traders, when the middleman they had selected ran off with their earnings. Of the surviving nine, there were six boys and three girls: Alvin, Hyrum, Sophronia, Joseph, Samuel Harrison, William, Katharine, Don Carlos, and Lucy.Įarly on, the Smith family, due to their extreme poverty, was forced to move, first to New Hampshire in 1811, and then to Palmyra, New York, in 1816, when Joseph was about ten years old. Of those eleven children, nine survived to adulthood.
He was the fifth child (including an unnamed son who died at birth in 1797), of eleven children born to Joseph Smith Sr. was born on December 23, 1805, in Sharon, Vermont.
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