Latter-day Saint biographical encyclopedia : a compilation of biographical sketches of prominent men and women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . s of Tennes-see and Kentucky. In the fall of 1836he went to Kirtland, Ohio, with ElderWoodruff, where the body of theChurch first gathered. Here they spentthe ensuing winter together, attendingthe Kirtland high school. In thespring of the year 1837 the Prophet Jo-seph advised Elder Smoot to return to 486 LATTER-DAT SAINT Kentucky, as the northern climate didnot agree with his health. He returnedto his native State, but soon after-wa
Latter-day Saint biographical encyclopedia : a compilation of biographical sketches of prominent men and women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . s of Tennes-see and Kentucky. In the fall of 1836he went to Kirtland, Ohio, with ElderWoodruff, where the body of theChurch first gathered. Here they spentthe ensuing winter together, attendingthe Kirtland high school. In thespring of the year 1837 the Prophet Jo-seph advised Elder Smoot to return to 486 LATTER-DAT SAINT Kentucky, as the northern climate didnot agree with his health. He returnedto his native State, but soon after-wards he and Elder Henry G. Sher-wood organized a company of Saintsand led them to Far West, Caldwellcounty. Missouri, at which place theSaints had located, after having beendriven from Jackson county. Having,with Elder Sherwood, led the com-pany to the then headquarters of theChurch, Elder Smoot continued trav-eling in the ministry, preaching un-til the latter part of 1838, when theSaints were driven from Missouri. Hewas at Far West as one of its activedefenders when that Mormon cityfell before the combined forces of themilitia and mob of the State under the. command of General John Clark,whosespeech to the prisoners of war, afterthe Prophet, his brother Hyrum, Par-ley P. Pratt, and others of the leadershad given themselves up, stands as oneof the most barbaric speeches that everfell from the lips of any officer inmodern times, civil or military. Abra-ham O. Smoot was one of those prison-ers of war. While a prisoner he mar-ried his first wife, Martha T. were married Nov. 11, 1838. Inthe month of February, 1839, they leftMissouri in the general expulsion of theSaints from that State. Their outfitwas very scant, consisting of a smallwagon and a span of horses; yet theytook with them the family of John (afterwards Bishop of SpanishFork) with his wife and five children. They made their way into Illinois asbest they could, through the storms ofwinter, and arrive
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