Emma Smith

Remembered best as the original wife of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) founder Joseph Smith, this Pennsylvania-born woman is also notable for her leadership of the Ladies' Relief Society of Nauvoo (Illinois).  In her early adulthood years, she served as a scribe during her husband's dictation of the Book of Mormon. In the mid-1830s, she was responsible for organizing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' first collection of hymns. Her seventeen-year marr