Person Information

Abraham Owen Smoot

FamilySearch ID: KWJZ-7QC
Birth: 17 February 1815, Owenston, Owen, Kentucky, United States
Parents: George Washington Smoot/Nancy Ann Rowlett
Spouse(s): McMeans, Margaret Thompson; Hill, Almira Emily

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FamilySearch Family Tree: KWJZ-7QC
Nauvoo Community Project at BYU: 44025
CHL Biographical Database: abraham-owen-smoot-sr-1815
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Memberships/Leaderships:

Bishop: Winter Quarters 14th Ward
Started: 13 Dec 1846 , Ended: 18 Jun 1847 , Source Image , Source: Bishops Reports for 1846 December, Winter Quarters Bishops Reports​, Church History Library LR 6359 23 folder 2 , Source Record
assertion #6624 by on : confidence 0%.
Bishop: Salt Lake 15th Ward
Started: 22 Feb 1849 , Ended: 6 Apr 1851 , Source Image , Source: Bishops Quorum minutes, Church History Library CR 4 122 folder 1 p.80 , Source Record
assertion #5219 by on : confidence 0%.
Bishop: South Cottonwood Ward
Started: Dec 1852 , Ended: 14 Mar 1854
Sustained in April 1851, but then called on a mission; not sure if he served at all in 1851
assertion #5628 by on : confidence 0%.
Bishop: Sugar House Ward
Started: 23 Apr 1854 , Ended: between 1862 and 1863 , Source Image , Source Record , Source: Historian’s Office history of the Church, 1854, p.34, Church History Library CR 100 102
assertion #5919 by on : confidence 0%.
Bishop: Salem Ward (Utah)
Started: 6 Jun 1858 , Ended: between Jul 1858 and Sep 1858 , Source Image , Source Record , Source: Wilford Woodruff Journal, 1854 Jan-1859 Dec, p.310, Church History Library MS 1352
Temporary calling during Move South?
assertion #5156 by on : confidence 0%.
Stake President: Provo/Utah Stake
Started: 9 Feb 1868 , Ended: 1895 , Source Image , Source: Utah Stake General Minutes, V.9 p.107, 1849-1858, 1866-1872, Church History Library LR 9629 11 , Source Record
also bishop of Provo City; initially called as "President of the High Council"
assertion #4845 by on : confidence 0%.
Presiding Bishop: Provo Branch/Bishopric
Started: 9 Feb 1868 , Ended: 2 Jun 1877 , Source Image , Source Record , Source: Utah Stake General Minutes, V.9 p.107, 1849-1858, 1866-1872, Church History Library LR 9629 11
also stake president
assertion #6740 by on : confidence 0%.

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