First Members

These are the first baptized and confirmed members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Smoky Mountain Ward and the missionaries who baptized and confirmed them. Click their names… Read more…

William Davis and Lucinda Burchfield were born in Tuckaleechee Cove, Tennessee. They married in 1880 and had at least five children, three of which were also baptized, becoming second-generation Members of The Church… Read more…

There were 23 Harmon family members baptized in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Blount County and two in Georgia* from 1895 to 1939. John Goulder Harmon was born in North… Read more…

There were five W. C. Garland family members baptized in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Blount County from 1897 to 1918. William Charles Garland and Elmyra Miller are well-known figures in the… Read more…

There were 14 A. H. Garland family members baptized in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Blount County from 1893 to 1927. Alexander Garland emigrated from Mitchell, North Carolina like many… Read more…

There were five Russell family members baptized in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Blount County from 1909 to 1921. Charles Harrison Russell was born in 1874 in Maryville, Tennessee. When… Read more…

There were eight Whitehead family members baptized in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Blount County from 1904 to 1921. David Lafayette Whitehead was born and raised in Happy Valley, Tennessee.… Read more…

This photo is of James and Matilda’s son, William, and their grandchildren in Tennessee. There were two Franklin family members baptized in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Blount County… Read more…

This photo is of Andrew Johnson Smith’s parents, Marcus Lafayette Smith and Elizabeth Henley Nelson.There were three Smith family members baptized in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Blount County… Read more…

There were three Wilcox family members baptized in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Blount County from 1918 to 1920. Georgia Edna Wilcox was the first of the three siblings to… Read more…

There were three Tipton family members baptized in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Blount County from 1911 to 1935. Timeline of Baptisms Dora Tipton (1890-1975) 5 May 1911: Dora Tipton was… Read more…

There were 15 Woody family members baptized in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Blount County from 1892 to 1921. Timeline of Baptisms *The first Woody family members Sarah and… Read more…

There were two J. H. Hicks family members baptized in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Blount County in 1893. Jordan Henry Hicks is originally from Boone, North Carolina and moved… Read more…

There were 2 Hicks family members baptized in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Blount County in 1911. Rachel Tennessee Hicks and Eliza Lee Hicks are sisters whose family members were friends of… Read more…

There were nine other individuals who were baptized in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1902 to 1935. Carl Allen Farr Laura Walker William C. Bonham Jesse Simeon Brown Synthia… Read more…