Background
Katharine Smith was born in Lebanon, New Hampshire, as the seventh surviving child of Joseph Smith, Senior and Lucy Mack.
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Career
In 1831, she moved with the Smith family to Kirtland, Ohio, to join the main gathering of Latter Day Saints. He was one of the first seventies of the church, but he was excommunicated by the Kirtland high council in 1836 for "talebearing and drinking strong liquor". The Salisburys settled in Chardon, Ohio, and later followed the Latter Day Saint movements to Missouri and Illinois.
In Illinois, they settled in Plymouth, which was forty miles from church headquarters in Nauvoo.
Later, the Salisburys settled in Fountain Green, Illinois, where Katharine would live for the rest of her life. In 1853, Wilkins Jenkins Salisbury died of typhoid fever.
They were the parents of eight children. They had no children together.
After the divorce, Katharine retained the surname Salisbury for the rest of her life.
She died in Fountain Green, Illinois. As of 2005, she had 92 known descendants.
Membership
After Katharine"s brothers Joseph and Hyrum were killed, the Salisburys moved to Nauvoo to be with the other members of the Smith family. Like the other members of the Smith family, they did not endorse the leadership of Brigham Young and refused to follow him to the Salt Lake Valley. This was based largely on her strong belief that the church should be led by a member of the Smith family.
