SMITH, John Gibbs^[1]

1883 - 1948  (65 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	SMITH, John Gibbs
  Birth	1 Sep 1883	Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah
  Gender	Male
  WAC	30 Nov 1910	SLAKE
  _TAG	Reviewed on FS
  Death	28 Sep 1948	Payson, Utah, Utah, United States
  Burial	1 Oct 1948	Provo, Utah, Utah, United States
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  Person ID	I16182	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	SMITH, Hyrum Fisher ,   b. 10 Jan 1856, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United Statesd. 9 Mar 1923, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States (Age 67 years)
  Mother	GIBBS, Hannah Marie ,   b. 7 Nov 1862, Call's Fort, Box Elder, Utah Call's Fort, Box Elder, Utahd. 6 Aug 1924, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 61 years)
  Marriage	12 Dec 1878	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
  Notes	~SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 12 Dec 1878, EHOUS. ~SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 12 Dec 1878, EHOUS. [2]
  Family ID	F4021	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	ROBEY, Martha Sophia ,   b. 4 Jul 1889, Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, United Statesd. 26 Aug 1959, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 70 years)
  Marriage	27 Mar 1903	Provo, Utah, Utah, United States
  Divorce	Yes, date unknown
  Notes	This is the very same day he married my grandmother, Hannah Johnson. They were married in Provo by bishop Turley once the divorce was granted after petitions of my grandfather with repeated hearings as stated in the court record. In the history written by Ralph Gibbs Smith, Martha Sophia Robey ran away shortly after their marriage. She gave birth in one of the Utah mining towns to a son conceived before she and John ever met. She was pregnant by another man before they ever met and were married.
  Children	+ 1. SMITH, Sidney Robey ,   b. 31 Aug 1903, Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, United Statesd. 30 Nov 1966, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 63 years)  [Father: challenged]  [Mother: challenged]
  Family ID	F5748	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

  Family 2	JOHNSON, Hannah ,   b. 6 Jul 1882, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States Provo, Utah, Utah, United Statesd. 12 Nov 1910, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States (Age 28 years)
  Marriage	10 May 1909	Provo, Utah, Utah, United States
  Children	+ 1. SMITH, Hannah Naomi ,   b. 25 Oct 1910, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States Provo, Utah, Utah, United Statesd. 26 Oct 1965, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States (Age 55 years)
  Family ID	F7072	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

  Family 3	FRANCOM, Aretta Elvira ,   b. 27 Mar 1891, Teasdale, Wayne, Utah Teasdale, Wayne, Utahd. 17 Mar 1979, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 87 years)
  Marriage	20 Mar 1912	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
  Children	1 son and 2 daughters
  + 1. SMITH, Marie ,   b. 22 Dec 1912, Los Angelas, Los Angelas, California, United States Los Angelas, Los Angelas, California, United Statesd. 26 Oct 1984, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 71 years) + 2. SMITH, Myrle ,   b. 22 Dec 1912, Los Angelas, Los Angelas, California, United States Los Angelas, Los Angelas, California, United Statesd. 24 Apr 2008, Mesquite, Clark, Nevada (Age 95 years) + 3. SMITH, Marcus Francom ,   b. 16 Dec 1913, Los Angelas, Los Angelas, California, United States Los Angelas, Los Angelas, California, United Statesd. 5 Apr 2003, Oceanside, San Diego, California (Age 89 years)
  Family ID	F7554	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  At about age 19, John met a girl at the old Mozart Dance Hall in Provo. Her name was [Martha] Sophia Robey. She was dark eyed and beautiful, and John quickly became infatuated with her. They married soon after meeting, and after their marriage John discovered that she was pregnant by another man. John and Sofia, at the pleading of her mother, lived as man and wife until the child was born at which time they divorced. [Evaline Smith, John’s sister told Bonnie Decker that Sofia lied and tricked John into marrying her. The Salt Lake Herald newspaper in 1903 published marriage license information that states that John was 26 and Sophia was 18. If the information in the LDS church genealogical databases is correct, John was actually 19 and Sophia, born in July 1889 in Vernal, Utah, was only 13 when they were married in March 1903. The comment by Eveline Smith that Sophia ran away after the marriage contradicts Ralph Smith's statement that they agreed to live together at the pleading of her mother until after the child was born.] The child, a boy, retained the name of Sidney Smith and lived and worked in Salt Lake City. [The birth record for Sidney Smith states that he was born in Highland Bay, Bingham Canyon, Utah. Ora Haws Vance said her mother, Evaline Smith Haws, told that Sophia ran away shortly after the marriage, apparently to Bingham Canyon, and she was not heard from. Highland Bay was a cluster of homes near the mine in Bingham Canyon, Utah. There was a protestant-run home for girls in Highland Bay sponsored by a non-LDS, religious organization. It is possible that this home is where she went for the birth of the child. Sophia could never be found and did not respond to the divorce petitions of John Smith. A divorce of John from Sophia was granted in the Fourth District Court for Utah County on May 10, 1909 the very day that John married his second wife, Hannah Johnson.] At one time Sidney Smith came to see John when he was a desk sergeant on the Salt Lake City police force asking him for money and called John "father." John said to him, “I am not your father. You go ask your mother to tell you the name of your real father, [and you ask him for money].” It is not known if he ever did. Sidney Smith was reared a catholic, [served in the US Navy], and his death notice appeared in the Salt Lake newspapers a few years ago. Sidney Smith married and had a son who goes by the name of Smith. - Ralph Gibbs Smith

  
  

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  [S17] compiled by Lynn James Boulter [(E-ADDRESS), & MAILING ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE], Sandy, UT, SKINNER5.GED, 4 Nov 2007 (Reliability: 2). [S17] compiled by Lynn James Boulter [(E-ADDRESS), & MAILING ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE], Sandy, UT, SKINNER5.GED.