1 Born at Shinnston, Harrison County, Virginia (later in West Virginia); daughter of Susannah Ogden and Mark Bigler. 2 Baptized, 1837. 3 Moved to Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri, 1837; to Quincy, Adams County, Illinois, 1839; and to Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, 1840. 4 Married George Albert Smith, 1841; three children. 5 Joined the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo as a founding member, March 17, 1842. 6 Officiated in the Nauvoo temple, 1845. 7 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1849. 8 Appointed a teacher in the Salt Lake City Thirteenth Ward Relief Society, 1868. 9 Served on the executive board of the Deseret Hospital Association. 10 Served as treasurer of the Salt Lake Stake Relief Society; as counselor to Rachel Ivins Grant in the Thirteenth Ward Relief Society presidency; as counselor to Mary Isabella Horne in the Senior Retrenchment Association; and as treasurer and president of the Salt Lake City Seventeenth Ward Relief Society. 11 Appointed second counselor to Zina D. H. Young in the general Relief Society presidency, 1888. 12 Served as the fourth general president of the Relief Society, 1901–1910. 13 Died at Salt Lake City. 14 (See Document 1.2, 3.7, 3.12, 3.13, 3.16, 3.17, 3.19, 3.24, 3.26, 4.1, 4.5, 4.11, 4.20, 4.28, first mentioned here)
Bathsheba Wilson Bigler Smith
3 May 1822 — 20 September 1910
Footnotes
Footnotes
[1] Bathsheba W. Smith, autobiography, ca. 1875–1906, p. 1, CHL. “Bathsheba Smith is Called Home,” Deseret Evening News, Sept. 20, 1910, 1. Andrew Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia (Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson History Co., 1901), 1:699. “Utah Death Certificate Index, 1904–1961,” database and images, Utah State Archives (http://archives.utah.gov, accessed Jan. 2015); from Utah Department of Health, Office of Vital Records and Statistics, series 81448, file no. 1297/538 (1910), Bathsheba W. Smith.
[2] “Bathsheba Smith Is Called Home,” 1. Utah death certificate, file no. 1297/538. Heidi S. Swinton, “‘Peace Be with You’: Bathsheba Wilson Bigler Smith,” in Women of Faith in the Latter Days, vol. 2, 1821–1845, ed. Richard E. Turley Jr. and Brittany A. Chapman (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2012), 350.
[3] Edward W. Tullidge, Women of Mormondom (New York: Tullidge & Crandall, 1877), 150. Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, 1:699. “Bathsheba Smith Is Called Home,” 1.
[4] Tullidge, Women of Mormondom, 151–155. Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, 1:700.
[5] “Tullidge, Women of Mormondom, 154. “Bathsheba Smith Is Called Home,” 1. Swinton, “Peace Be with You,” 350.
[6] Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book, 1841–1846, CHL, entry for Mar. 17, 1842. Emmeline B. Wells, “Women’s Organizations,” Woman’s Exponent 8, no. 16 (Jan. 15, 1880), 122.
[7] Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, 1:702.
[8] “Bathsheba Wilson Bigler Smith,” Church History Biographical Database, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, available at https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/landing, accessed Jan. 2015.
[9] Thirteenth Ward Relief Society minutes, Apr. 18, 1868, Relief Society minutes and records, vol. 1, 1868–1898, Thirteenth Ward, Salt Lake Stake [Ensign Stake], 1868–1906, CHL.
[10] “The Deseret Hospital. Dedication Services,” Deseret Evening News, July 17, 1882, 2.
[11] Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, 1:702. “Bathsheba Smith Is Called Home,” 1.
[12] Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, 1:702. “Bathsheba Smith Is called Home,” 1.
[13] “Bathsheba Smith Is called Home,” 1. Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, 1:702. Swinton, “Peace Be with You,” 361–364.
[14] Utah death certificate, file no. 1297/538. “Bathsheba Smith Is Called Home,” 1. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed Jan. 6, 2016), Bathsheba Bigler KVPR-8DW.