Background
Julina Lambson was born to Alfred Boaz Lambson and Melissa Jane Bigler in Salt Lake City.
Julina Lambson was born to Alfred Boaz Lambson and Melissa Jane Bigler in Salt Lake City.
Her family"s home was the first house in Salt Lake City to be plastered. In 1866, Lambson married Smith in the Endowment House. lieutenant was Smith"s second marriage.
Juliana was his first plural wife.
Smith and Julina Smith had 11 children, one of which was Joseph Fielding Smith, longtime historian and apostle of the church and president from 1970 to 1972. Her son East. Wesley Smith, who was born in Hawaii, twice served as mission president in Hawaii.
In 1870, when the first Young Women"s Retrenchment Society was first organized in Salt Lake City on a ward level, Julina Smith was selected as one of its first ward presidents. When Emmeline B. Wells became the president of the Relief Society in 1910, she selected Smith as her second counselor
Along with first counselor Clarissa South. Williams, the presidency served until Wells died in 1921.
Smith was one of the first trained midwives in Utah. She died in Salt Lake City, Utah and was buried at Salt Lake City Cemetery.
From 1910 to 1921 she was a member of the General Presidency of the Relief Society. Another son was David Smith, who became a member of the church"s Presiding Bishopric. In 1892, she became a member of the general board of the Relief Society.