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