--- title: History of the Prophet Joseph by His Mother description: 1902 edition of Lucy Mack Smith's memoir about her son Joseph Smith. authors: - Smith, Lucy editors: - Smith, George A. - Smith, Elias collections: - history tags: - history - biography published: "1902" publisher: Improvement Era Office edition: As revised by George A. Smith and Elias Smith (Salt Lake City, 1902) language: en type: book reference: 'Lucy Smith, *History of the Prophet Joseph by His Mother*, rev. George A. Smith and Elias Smith (Salt Lake City, UT: Improvement Era Office, 1902), chap. 5, "Lydia Mack, third Daughter of Solomon Mack," 28-28.' source: url: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45619/pg45619-images.html identifier: gutenberg-45619 transcription: "Project Gutenberg eBook #45619 (Mormon Texts Project proofreading of the 1902 edition). The Gutenberg header, license and transcriber notes are not included, and no text from later editions is present." start_page: 28 end_page: 28 curator_note: Revised by George A. Smith and Elias Smith. rights: status: public-domain basis: 1902 US publication (Salt Lake City, Improvement Era Office; text of the 1853 original as revised by George A. Smith and Elias Smith); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45619 publication_year: 1902 note: "Verified: the text is the 1902 Improvement Era Office edition; it contains no introduction, notes or other matter from later editions (for example the 1945 Preston Nibley edition)." --- # Chapter V. Lydia Mack, third Daughter of Solomon Mack Of my sister Lydia I shall say but little; not that I loved her less, or that she was less deserving of honorable mention; but she seemed to float more with the stream of common events than those who have occupied the foregoing pages; hence fewer incidents of a striking character are furnished for the mind to dwell upon. She sought riches and obtained them; yet in the day of prosperity she remembered the poor, for she dealt out her substance to the needy, with a liberal hand, to the end of her days, and died the object of their affection. As she was beloved in life, so she was bewailed in death