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Salt Lake City, Utah 1850
Relocated in 1979
This home is placed on a hill on the east side of our Village to symbolize its original location several miles southeast of Salt Lake City. After spending the winter of 1848-49 in the fort of the Salt Lake Valley, Mary Fielding Smith, the widow of martyred church leader Hyrum Smith, decided to live on a farm instead of her assigned “city” plot. She moved her children, stepchildren, and hired hands to a remote farm situated on 40 acres of land. Mary maintained a successful farm and independent lifestyle in this small home until she fell seriously ill four years later, which led to her death in 1854.
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