Heman C. Smith

Heman Conomon Smith was a leader in and official historian of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints .

Smith was born in the Mormon settlement of Zodiac, Texas. His grandfather was Lyman Wight, one of the original apostles of the Church of Christ established by Joseph Smith, Jr. After Joseph Smiths death, the church divided into several groups, one of which Wight led to Texas. In 1858, Hemans family left Texas, and they eventually settled in Shelby County, Iowa. In 1862, Smith and his family were baptized into the RLDS Church.

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