Daughter of John Murdock and Julia Clapp adopted by LDS Prophet Joseph Smith and wife Emma.
The day after Emma's twins died at Kirtland... Julia Clapp Murdock died in childbirth, leaving her newborn twins and three other young children motherless. John Murdock considered the grim difficulties of caring for his five small children alone and concluded that he must divide his family among friends. The survival of his newborn twins, named Joseph and Julia, depended on a woman who could nurse them. When they were nine days old Emma took them as her own. This adoption did not separate the natural father from his children, as John Murdock boarded at Emma's home periodically over the years. (Newell and Avery, Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith, p.39.)
Baby Joseph was exposed to the cold on the night when Joseph Smith was tarred and feathered at Hiram, Ohio. Already feverish, he worsened and died before reaching his first birthday.
Little Julia thus became the first child of Joseph and Emma to survive. According to Newell and Avery, she was not told that she was adopted, and the community accepted her as a Smith. She was the only sister to Joseph III, Frederick G. W., Alexander Hale, and David Hyrum.
∼Julia Murdock Smith's gravesite in Nauvoo
In late April 1831, Emma Smith, wife of the Prophet Joseph Smith, gave birth to twin babies at Kirtland, Ohio. The two infants lived only a few hours.
Within a day of Emma's delivery, Julia Clapp Murdock of Orange, Ohio, also gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl. They lived, but their mother passed away later that day. Emma and Joseph ended up adopting the Murdock twins and named them Joseph and Julia. The boy passed away shortly after the Prophet was tarred and feathered at Hiram, Ohio, the following year.
Julia lived to adulthood and subsequently married Elisha Dixon, who was later killed in a steamship explosion. In 1856, Julia remarried. That man's name was John J. Middleton.
Tradition holds that Middleton ultimately abandoned Julia, who then returned to Nauvoo, Ill., to be with Emma. She died in 1880, about a year after Emma passed away, and was buried in the Catholic cemetery in Nauvoo. It is thought that Julia never bore any children.
Deseret News, January 1, 2014
∼Daughter of John Murdock and Julia Clapp
Adopted daughter of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale
Married Elisha Dixon, 1848, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illnois
Married John J. Middleton, 1858, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illnois
History - Her birth mother died giving birth to Julia and her twin brother Joseph, so their birth father, John Murdock, offered them to Smith and his wife, who themselves had lost prematurely born twins the same day. After Joseph and Emma Smith had taken custody of the children, in late March 1832, the infant Joseph became ill. Consequently Emma decided to have the babies sleep separately to prevent a spread of the disease. Joseph Smith had taken baby Joseph to bed with him and Emma was in the other room with Julia. That night a mob came and stormed the Smith home. In the midst of the panic, baby Joseph was exposed to the cold air and died several days later.
Julia was only thirteen when her father returned home that final night of June 23, 1844 before heading to the Carthage Jail. There, he was killed at a quarter past five on the afternoon of the 27th. Julia "would never be a beauty," according to Tippets & Avery, "but her brown eyes and thick hair were assets. She was a sensitive girl with a streak of daring and a sense of humor that endeared her to her father."
In the summer of 1849, a "slender, fair-skinned, blue-eyed man of thirty-six named Elisha Dixon came to Nauvoo as an entertainer . . ." Julia married him that same season, after which he took off to St. Louis on some business, only to retreat when cholera hit the city. Julia and her new husband then began to operate the Mansion house, relieving Emma's financial condition to the point that Emma gained weight.
In the spring of 1852, she and her husband moved to Galveston, Texas, where Elisha took a job as a steamboat's bookkeeper. The following year the boiler exploded on the steamship on which her husband worked, throwing him into the ash pan. Badly burned, Elisha Dixon died after suffering three weeks. The young widow returned to Emma in 1853.
She married John Middleton. Middleton was a Catholic, and Julia joined his church, November 9, 1857. The couple bought a small farm in the vicinity of Nauvoo. They later moved to St. Louis. Educated to become a priest, he failed to take his orders because of excessive drinking. He failed as a lawyer, and then as a farmer, before securing a position as a clerk in St. Louis. John Middleton's alcoholism eventually lost him his property, then his job, and finally his self-respect. Julia lived a sad and lonely life with him.
In 1876, Julia permanently left her husband and moved back to Nauvoo. She lived with her mother at the Riverside Mansion, the brick home Emma's second husband Major Bidamon had built. Emma's health failed early in 1879, and Julia was with her, as were Joseph III and Alexander, when she died on 30 April 1879. After Emma's death, Julia went home with Alexander to Andover, Missouri. She died of breast cancer, while visiting friends in Nauvoo, at age forty-nine on September 12, 1880.
DIED. MIDDLETON--At the residence of Jas. Moffitt Jr. in township, Set. 10th 1880, Mrs. Julia, wife of John Middleton, in her 50th year, of cancer.
The deceased was born at Warrensville, O., in May, 1831, and many phases of her life from almost the day of her birth have borne as near the sembalance of romance as facts could well admit of, which, it will not be a miss to mention here.
She was a twin, and the daughter of a Mr. and Mrs. Murdock of the above named place, who were neighbors of Joseph and Emma Smith of subsequent Mormon fame. Within a few hours of the birth of the Murdock twins Mrs. Smith also became the mother of a pair of twins, which shortly died. Mrs. Murdock also died, when Mr. and Mrs. Smith took and adopted her twins. Some time after that one of the adopted children died. Julia continued to live in the Smith family and came here with them at the time of the Mormon immigration. She was kindly cared for and educated by the Smiths and at the age of seventeen engaged to marry a man named Dixon, which met the objection of her foster-mother--Mr. Smith having been killed before that time. But as in most of other cases, where love yields not to dictation, she left home and married the man of her choice. But after a few years she was compelled to wear the weeds of widowhood--her husband died--when she returned home where she remained till her marriage with Mr. John Middleton in 1856.
Mrs. Middleton was a woman of the most exemplary character--an advocate of all the graces and virtues and had a strong loving disposition for her friends which firmly endeared her to them. She was considerably above the medium of intelligence and of an indomitable spirit which fully manifested itself in the trying ordeal of sickness through which she passed before the severance of the link which bound her to this earthly sphere. Although she knew that death was fast approaching she remained cheerful and resigned. She leaves many friends who deeply regret her death." Nauvoo Independent, September 17, 1880.
See The Photograph Album of Julia Murdock Smith
On Being Adopted, Julia Murdock Smith
The day after Emma's twins died at Kirtland... Julia Clapp Murdock died in childbirth, leaving her newborn twins and three other young children motherless. John Murdock considered the grim difficulties of caring for his five small children alone and concluded that he must divide his family among friends. The survival of his newborn twins, named Joseph and Julia, depended on a woman who could nurse them. When they were nine days old Emma took them as her own. This adoption did not separate the natural father from his children, as John Murdock boarded at Emma's home periodically over the years. (Newell and Avery, Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith, p.39.)
Baby Joseph was exposed to the cold on the night when Joseph Smith was tarred and feathered at Hiram, Ohio. Already feverish, he worsened and died before reaching his first birthday.
Little Julia thus became the first child of Joseph and Emma to survive. According to Newell and Avery, she was not told that she was adopted, and the community accepted her as a Smith. She was the only sister to Joseph III, Frederick G. W., Alexander Hale, and David Hyrum.
∼Julia Murdock Smith's gravesite in Nauvoo
In late April 1831, Emma Smith, wife of the Prophet Joseph Smith, gave birth to twin babies at Kirtland, Ohio. The two infants lived only a few hours.
Within a day of Emma's delivery, Julia Clapp Murdock of Orange, Ohio, also gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl. They lived, but their mother passed away later that day. Emma and Joseph ended up adopting the Murdock twins and named them Joseph and Julia. The boy passed away shortly after the Prophet was tarred and feathered at Hiram, Ohio, the following year.
Julia lived to adulthood and subsequently married Elisha Dixon, who was later killed in a steamship explosion. In 1856, Julia remarried. That man's name was John J. Middleton.
Tradition holds that Middleton ultimately abandoned Julia, who then returned to Nauvoo, Ill., to be with Emma. She died in 1880, about a year after Emma passed away, and was buried in the Catholic cemetery in Nauvoo. It is thought that Julia never bore any children.
Deseret News, January 1, 2014
∼Daughter of John Murdock and Julia Clapp
Adopted daughter of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale
Married Elisha Dixon, 1848, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illnois
Married John J. Middleton, 1858, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illnois
History - Her birth mother died giving birth to Julia and her twin brother Joseph, so their birth father, John Murdock, offered them to Smith and his wife, who themselves had lost prematurely born twins the same day. After Joseph and Emma Smith had taken custody of the children, in late March 1832, the infant Joseph became ill. Consequently Emma decided to have the babies sleep separately to prevent a spread of the disease. Joseph Smith had taken baby Joseph to bed with him and Emma was in the other room with Julia. That night a mob came and stormed the Smith home. In the midst of the panic, baby Joseph was exposed to the cold air and died several days later.
Julia was only thirteen when her father returned home that final night of June 23, 1844 before heading to the Carthage Jail. There, he was killed at a quarter past five on the afternoon of the 27th. Julia "would never be a beauty," according to Tippets & Avery, "but her brown eyes and thick hair were assets. She was a sensitive girl with a streak of daring and a sense of humor that endeared her to her father."
In the summer of 1849, a "slender, fair-skinned, blue-eyed man of thirty-six named Elisha Dixon came to Nauvoo as an entertainer . . ." Julia married him that same season, after which he took off to St. Louis on some business, only to retreat when cholera hit the city. Julia and her new husband then began to operate the Mansion house, relieving Emma's financial condition to the point that Emma gained weight.
In the spring of 1852, she and her husband moved to Galveston, Texas, where Elisha took a job as a steamboat's bookkeeper. The following year the boiler exploded on the steamship on which her husband worked, throwing him into the ash pan. Badly burned, Elisha Dixon died after suffering three weeks. The young widow returned to Emma in 1853.
She married John Middleton. Middleton was a Catholic, and Julia joined his church, November 9, 1857. The couple bought a small farm in the vicinity of Nauvoo. They later moved to St. Louis. Educated to become a priest, he failed to take his orders because of excessive drinking. He failed as a lawyer, and then as a farmer, before securing a position as a clerk in St. Louis. John Middleton's alcoholism eventually lost him his property, then his job, and finally his self-respect. Julia lived a sad and lonely life with him.
In 1876, Julia permanently left her husband and moved back to Nauvoo. She lived with her mother at the Riverside Mansion, the brick home Emma's second husband Major Bidamon had built. Emma's health failed early in 1879, and Julia was with her, as were Joseph III and Alexander, when she died on 30 April 1879. After Emma's death, Julia went home with Alexander to Andover, Missouri. She died of breast cancer, while visiting friends in Nauvoo, at age forty-nine on September 12, 1880.
DIED. MIDDLETON--At the residence of Jas. Moffitt Jr. in township, Set. 10th 1880, Mrs. Julia, wife of John Middleton, in her 50th year, of cancer.
The deceased was born at Warrensville, O., in May, 1831, and many phases of her life from almost the day of her birth have borne as near the sembalance of romance as facts could well admit of, which, it will not be a miss to mention here.
She was a twin, and the daughter of a Mr. and Mrs. Murdock of the above named place, who were neighbors of Joseph and Emma Smith of subsequent Mormon fame. Within a few hours of the birth of the Murdock twins Mrs. Smith also became the mother of a pair of twins, which shortly died. Mrs. Murdock also died, when Mr. and Mrs. Smith took and adopted her twins. Some time after that one of the adopted children died. Julia continued to live in the Smith family and came here with them at the time of the Mormon immigration. She was kindly cared for and educated by the Smiths and at the age of seventeen engaged to marry a man named Dixon, which met the objection of her foster-mother--Mr. Smith having been killed before that time. But as in most of other cases, where love yields not to dictation, she left home and married the man of her choice. But after a few years she was compelled to wear the weeds of widowhood--her husband died--when she returned home where she remained till her marriage with Mr. John Middleton in 1856.
Mrs. Middleton was a woman of the most exemplary character--an advocate of all the graces and virtues and had a strong loving disposition for her friends which firmly endeared her to them. She was considerably above the medium of intelligence and of an indomitable spirit which fully manifested itself in the trying ordeal of sickness through which she passed before the severance of the link which bound her to this earthly sphere. Although she knew that death was fast approaching she remained cheerful and resigned. She leaves many friends who deeply regret her death." Nauvoo Independent, September 17, 1880.
See The Photograph Album of Julia Murdock Smith
On Being Adopted, Julia Murdock Smith
Daughter of John Murdock and Julia Clapp adopted by LDS Prophet Joseph Smith and wife Emma.
The day after Emma's twins died at Kirtland... Julia Clapp Murdock died in childbirth, leaving her newborn twins and three other young children motherless. John Murdock considered the grim difficulties of caring for his five small children alone and concluded that he must divide his family among friends. The survival of his newborn twins, named Joseph and Julia, depended on a woman who could nurse them. When they were nine days old Emma took them as her own. This adoption did not separate the natural father from his children, as John Murdock boarded at Emma's home periodically over the years. (Newell and Avery, Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith, p.39.)
Baby Joseph was exposed to the cold on the night when Joseph Smith was tarred and feathered at Hiram, Ohio. Already feverish, he worsened and died before reaching his first birthday.
Little Julia thus became the first child of Joseph and Emma to survive. According to Newell and Avery, she was not told that she was adopted, and the community accepted her as a Smith. She was the only sister to Joseph III, Frederick G. W., Alexander Hale, and David Hyrum.
∼Julia Murdock Smith's gravesite in Nauvoo
In late April 1831, Emma Smith, wife of the Prophet Joseph Smith, gave birth to twin babies at Kirtland, Ohio. The two infants lived only a few hours.
Within a day of Emma's delivery, Julia Clapp Murdock of Orange, Ohio, also gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl. They lived, but their mother passed away later that day. Emma and Joseph ended up adopting the Murdock twins and named them Joseph and Julia. The boy passed away shortly after the Prophet was tarred and feathered at Hiram, Ohio, the following year.
Julia lived to adulthood and subsequently married Elisha Dixon, who was later killed in a steamship explosion. In 1856, Julia remarried. That man's name was John J. Middleton.
Tradition holds that Middleton ultimately abandoned Julia, who then returned to Nauvoo, Ill., to be with Emma. She died in 1880, about a year after Emma passed away, and was buried in the Catholic cemetery in Nauvoo. It is thought that Julia never bore any children.
Deseret News, January 1, 2014
∼Daughter of John Murdock and Julia Clapp
Adopted daughter of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale
Married Elisha Dixon, 1848, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illnois
Married John J. Middleton, 1858, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illnois
History - Her birth mother died giving birth to Julia and her twin brother Joseph, so their birth father, John Murdock, offered them to Smith and his wife, who themselves had lost prematurely born twins the same day. After Joseph and Emma Smith had taken custody of the children, in late March 1832, the infant Joseph became ill. Consequently Emma decided to have the babies sleep separately to prevent a spread of the disease. Joseph Smith had taken baby Joseph to bed with him and Emma was in the other room with Julia. That night a mob came and stormed the Smith home. In the midst of the panic, baby Joseph was exposed to the cold air and died several days later.
Julia was only thirteen when her father returned home that final night of June 23, 1844 before heading to the Carthage Jail. There, he was killed at a quarter past five on the afternoon of the 27th. Julia "would never be a beauty," according to Tippets & Avery, "but her brown eyes and thick hair were assets. She was a sensitive girl with a streak of daring and a sense of humor that endeared her to her father."
In the summer of 1849, a "slender, fair-skinned, blue-eyed man of thirty-six named Elisha Dixon came to Nauvoo as an entertainer . . ." Julia married him that same season, after which he took off to St. Louis on some business, only to retreat when cholera hit the city. Julia and her new husband then began to operate the Mansion house, relieving Emma's financial condition to the point that Emma gained weight.
In the spring of 1852, she and her husband moved to Galveston, Texas, where Elisha took a job as a steamboat's bookkeeper. The following year the boiler exploded on the steamship on which her husband worked, throwing him into the ash pan. Badly burned, Elisha Dixon died after suffering three weeks. The young widow returned to Emma in 1853.
She married John Middleton. Middleton was a Catholic, and Julia joined his church, November 9, 1857. The couple bought a small farm in the vicinity of Nauvoo. They later moved to St. Louis. Educated to become a priest, he failed to take his orders because of excessive drinking. He failed as a lawyer, and then as a farmer, before securing a position as a clerk in St. Louis. John Middleton's alcoholism eventually lost him his property, then his job, and finally his self-respect. Julia lived a sad and lonely life with him.
In 1876, Julia permanently left her husband and moved back to Nauvoo. She lived with her mother at the Riverside Mansion, the brick home Emma's second husband Major Bidamon had built. Emma's health failed early in 1879, and Julia was with her, as were Joseph III and Alexander, when she died on 30 April 1879. After Emma's death, Julia went home with Alexander to Andover, Missouri. She died of breast cancer, while visiting friends in Nauvoo, at age forty-nine on September 12, 1880.
DIED. MIDDLETON--At the residence of Jas. Moffitt Jr. in township, Set. 10th 1880, Mrs. Julia, wife of John Middleton, in her 50th year, of cancer.
The deceased was born at Warrensville, O., in May, 1831, and many phases of her life from almost the day of her birth have borne as near the sembalance of romance as facts could well admit of, which, it will not be a miss to mention here.
She was a twin, and the daughter of a Mr. and Mrs. Murdock of the above named place, who were neighbors of Joseph and Emma Smith of subsequent Mormon fame. Within a few hours of the birth of the Murdock twins Mrs. Smith also became the mother of a pair of twins, which shortly died. Mrs. Murdock also died, when Mr. and Mrs. Smith took and adopted her twins. Some time after that one of the adopted children died. Julia continued to live in the Smith family and came here with them at the time of the Mormon immigration. She was kindly cared for and educated by the Smiths and at the age of seventeen engaged to marry a man named Dixon, which met the objection of her foster-mother--Mr. Smith having been killed before that time. But as in most of other cases, where love yields not to dictation, she left home and married the man of her choice. But after a few years she was compelled to wear the weeds of widowhood--her husband died--when she returned home where she remained till her marriage with Mr. John Middleton in 1856.
Mrs. Middleton was a woman of the most exemplary character--an advocate of all the graces and virtues and had a strong loving disposition for her friends which firmly endeared her to them. She was considerably above the medium of intelligence and of an indomitable spirit which fully manifested itself in the trying ordeal of sickness through which she passed before the severance of the link which bound her to this earthly sphere. Although she knew that death was fast approaching she remained cheerful and resigned. She leaves many friends who deeply regret her death." Nauvoo Independent, September 17, 1880.
See The Photograph Album of Julia Murdock Smith
On Being Adopted, Julia Murdock Smith
The day after Emma's twins died at Kirtland... Julia Clapp Murdock died in childbirth, leaving her newborn twins and three other young children motherless. John Murdock considered the grim difficulties of caring for his five small children alone and concluded that he must divide his family among friends. The survival of his newborn twins, named Joseph and Julia, depended on a woman who could nurse them. When they were nine days old Emma took them as her own. This adoption did not separate the natural father from his children, as John Murdock boarded at Emma's home periodically over the years. (Newell and Avery, Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith, p.39.)
Baby Joseph was exposed to the cold on the night when Joseph Smith was tarred and feathered at Hiram, Ohio. Already feverish, he worsened and died before reaching his first birthday.
Little Julia thus became the first child of Joseph and Emma to survive. According to Newell and Avery, she was not told that she was adopted, and the community accepted her as a Smith. She was the only sister to Joseph III, Frederick G. W., Alexander Hale, and David Hyrum.
∼Julia Murdock Smith's gravesite in Nauvoo
In late April 1831, Emma Smith, wife of the Prophet Joseph Smith, gave birth to twin babies at Kirtland, Ohio. The two infants lived only a few hours.
Within a day of Emma's delivery, Julia Clapp Murdock of Orange, Ohio, also gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl. They lived, but their mother passed away later that day. Emma and Joseph ended up adopting the Murdock twins and named them Joseph and Julia. The boy passed away shortly after the Prophet was tarred and feathered at Hiram, Ohio, the following year.
Julia lived to adulthood and subsequently married Elisha Dixon, who was later killed in a steamship explosion. In 1856, Julia remarried. That man's name was John J. Middleton.
Tradition holds that Middleton ultimately abandoned Julia, who then returned to Nauvoo, Ill., to be with Emma. She died in 1880, about a year after Emma passed away, and was buried in the Catholic cemetery in Nauvoo. It is thought that Julia never bore any children.
Deseret News, January 1, 2014
∼Daughter of John Murdock and Julia Clapp
Adopted daughter of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale
Married Elisha Dixon, 1848, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illnois
Married John J. Middleton, 1858, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illnois
History - Her birth mother died giving birth to Julia and her twin brother Joseph, so their birth father, John Murdock, offered them to Smith and his wife, who themselves had lost prematurely born twins the same day. After Joseph and Emma Smith had taken custody of the children, in late March 1832, the infant Joseph became ill. Consequently Emma decided to have the babies sleep separately to prevent a spread of the disease. Joseph Smith had taken baby Joseph to bed with him and Emma was in the other room with Julia. That night a mob came and stormed the Smith home. In the midst of the panic, baby Joseph was exposed to the cold air and died several days later.
Julia was only thirteen when her father returned home that final night of June 23, 1844 before heading to the Carthage Jail. There, he was killed at a quarter past five on the afternoon of the 27th. Julia "would never be a beauty," according to Tippets & Avery, "but her brown eyes and thick hair were assets. She was a sensitive girl with a streak of daring and a sense of humor that endeared her to her father."
In the summer of 1849, a "slender, fair-skinned, blue-eyed man of thirty-six named Elisha Dixon came to Nauvoo as an entertainer . . ." Julia married him that same season, after which he took off to St. Louis on some business, only to retreat when cholera hit the city. Julia and her new husband then began to operate the Mansion house, relieving Emma's financial condition to the point that Emma gained weight.
In the spring of 1852, she and her husband moved to Galveston, Texas, where Elisha took a job as a steamboat's bookkeeper. The following year the boiler exploded on the steamship on which her husband worked, throwing him into the ash pan. Badly burned, Elisha Dixon died after suffering three weeks. The young widow returned to Emma in 1853.
She married John Middleton. Middleton was a Catholic, and Julia joined his church, November 9, 1857. The couple bought a small farm in the vicinity of Nauvoo. They later moved to St. Louis. Educated to become a priest, he failed to take his orders because of excessive drinking. He failed as a lawyer, and then as a farmer, before securing a position as a clerk in St. Louis. John Middleton's alcoholism eventually lost him his property, then his job, and finally his self-respect. Julia lived a sad and lonely life with him.
In 1876, Julia permanently left her husband and moved back to Nauvoo. She lived with her mother at the Riverside Mansion, the brick home Emma's second husband Major Bidamon had built. Emma's health failed early in 1879, and Julia was with her, as were Joseph III and Alexander, when she died on 30 April 1879. After Emma's death, Julia went home with Alexander to Andover, Missouri. She died of breast cancer, while visiting friends in Nauvoo, at age forty-nine on September 12, 1880.
DIED. MIDDLETON--At the residence of Jas. Moffitt Jr. in township, Set. 10th 1880, Mrs. Julia, wife of John Middleton, in her 50th year, of cancer.
The deceased was born at Warrensville, O., in May, 1831, and many phases of her life from almost the day of her birth have borne as near the sembalance of romance as facts could well admit of, which, it will not be a miss to mention here.
She was a twin, and the daughter of a Mr. and Mrs. Murdock of the above named place, who were neighbors of Joseph and Emma Smith of subsequent Mormon fame. Within a few hours of the birth of the Murdock twins Mrs. Smith also became the mother of a pair of twins, which shortly died. Mrs. Murdock also died, when Mr. and Mrs. Smith took and adopted her twins. Some time after that one of the adopted children died. Julia continued to live in the Smith family and came here with them at the time of the Mormon immigration. She was kindly cared for and educated by the Smiths and at the age of seventeen engaged to marry a man named Dixon, which met the objection of her foster-mother--Mr. Smith having been killed before that time. But as in most of other cases, where love yields not to dictation, she left home and married the man of her choice. But after a few years she was compelled to wear the weeds of widowhood--her husband died--when she returned home where she remained till her marriage with Mr. John Middleton in 1856.
Mrs. Middleton was a woman of the most exemplary character--an advocate of all the graces and virtues and had a strong loving disposition for her friends which firmly endeared her to them. She was considerably above the medium of intelligence and of an indomitable spirit which fully manifested itself in the trying ordeal of sickness through which she passed before the severance of the link which bound her to this earthly sphere. Although she knew that death was fast approaching she remained cheerful and resigned. She leaves many friends who deeply regret her death." Nauvoo Independent, September 17, 1880.
See The Photograph Album of Julia Murdock Smith
On Being Adopted, Julia Murdock Smith
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