Mary Ann Smith

Daughter of Thomas Washington Smith and Sarah Ann Boren. Mary Ann was born in Hancock County, Illinois just three months after the deaths of Joseph and Hyrum Smith. She came west to Utah with her family when she was a child.

Mary Ann married James Mitchell Mangum on October 9, 1866. She gave birth to five children with him: James Thomas, Robert Smith, Sarah Francis, Albert, and Carel Henry. She also adopted Francis Marion. The children were born in Washington and Kane Counties, Utah.

James Mangum died in 1888. On the 1900 Census Mary Ann is in Jackson Hole, Wyoming with her sons, Carel and Francis. Her son, Albert, had homesteaded in Wilson, near Jackson Hole.

According to her death certificate, Mary Ann died and was buried in Tropic, Utah. Her mother had died and was buried there four years earlier.