Jesse Nathaniel SMITH

                   Margaret was the second wife of Jesse N. She was the sixth of 10
children of Samuel W. and Margaret C. West. She joined the church at age
8 and went to Utah with her parents. She was the younger sister to
Emma, 1st wife of Jesse N.  She died, supposedly of acute appendicitis
while Jesse N. was presiding over the Scandinavian Mission. Word
reached him in Copenhagen some six weeks later through a letter from
his brother Silas.  He did not arrive home until Oct. of that year. Her two
children, Adelaide Margaret and Joseph West were tenderly cared for by
their Aunt Emma who reared them as her own. Emma received help in ther
rearing of all of the children from their grandmother, Mary Aikens Smith.
During the brief 8 year period of Margaret's married life, her husband
was away from home most of the time in church, civic or military
service. (Source: Journal of J.N.S.)
Margaret was endowed 2 Oct 1857 and sealed at the altar the same day
in the Salt Lake Endowment House by Brigham Young.