Lydia Gates Mack, mother of Lucy Mack Smith, taught school and was an accomplished woman.

Date
1845
Type
Manuscript
Source
Solomon Mack
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Scribed Verbatim
Reference

Sketch of Solomon Mack (directly quoted) as read by Lucy Mack Smith, History, 1844–1845; handwriting of Martha Jane Knowlton Coray and Howard Coray, pg. 5, Church History Library, The Joseph Smith Papers website, accessed August 11, 2021

Scribe/Publisher
Howard Coray, Lucy Mack Smith
People
Lydia Gates Mack, Solomon Mack, Lucy Mack Smith
Audience
General Public
Transcription

In the same year I became acquainted with an accomplished young woman, a school teacher, by the name of Lydia Gates. She was the daughter of one Nathan Gates, who was a man of wealth living in the Town of East Haddam. To this young woman I was married, shortly after becoming acquainted with her

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