Alexander Hale Smith

Alexander Hale Smith

Alexander Hale Smith

Many are familiar with Joseph and Emma’s son Joseph Smith III, who would later in life become the President of the RLDS church (Community of Christ). Very little has been said of Joseph and Emma’s son Alexander who was born in 1838 at Far West Missouri and named after Joseph’s trusted lawyer and friend, Alexander Doniphan, and his mother’s maiden name. He too became involved with the RLDS church. What position did Alexander hold?

a.      Assistant President

b.      Presiding Bishop

c.       Church Patriarch

d.      President in the Quorum of the Seventy

Yesterday’s answer

D)   Peppermint

In the nineteenth century, there was little treatment available for victims of cholera, but those who could swallow fluids were encouraged to do so. Common treatments also consisted of some combination of calomel, camphor, opium, cayenne pepper, peppermint, musk, ammonia, or mustard plasters.

Robert W. Carter, "'Sometimes When I Hear the Winds Sigh': Mortality on the Overland Trail," California History 74 (Summer 1995): 146; Shane A. Baker, 148.