--- 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. 7, "Solomon Mack," 31-31.' 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: 31 end_page: 31 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 VII. Solomon Mack My youngest brother, Solomon, was born and married in the town of Gilsum, state of New Hampshire, where he is still living; and although he is now very aged, he has never traveled farther than Boston, to which place his business leads him twice a year. He has gathered to himself in this rocky region, fields, flocks, and herds, which multiply and increase upon the mountains. He has been known at least twenty years, as Captain Solomon Mack, of Gilsum; but as he lives to speak for himself, and as I have to do chiefly with the dead, and not the living, I shall leave him, hoping that, as he has lived peaceably with all men, he may die happily. I have now given a brief account of all my father's family, save myself; and what I have written has been done with the view of discharging an obligation which I considered resting upon me, inasmuch as they have all passed off this stage of action, except myself and youngest brother. And seldom do I meet with an individual with whom I was even acquainted in my early years, and I am constrained to exclaim—"The friends of my youth! where are they?" The tomb replies, "Here are they!" But, through my instrumentality, > Safely truth to urge her claims, presumes On names now found alone on books and tombs