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Julia Murdock Smith Dixon Middleton (May 1, 1831 – September 12, 1880) was an early member of the Latter Day Saint movement and the eldest surviving child and only daughter of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale Smith. She was adopted by the Smiths.
Julia Murdock Smith was one of the Murdock twins adopted at birth by Joseph and Emma Hale Smith in 1831. She played a prominent family role as the oldest and only female child in the Smith household.
Murdock Smith. Dixon Middleton. Daughter of John Murdock and Julia Clapp adopted by LDS Prophet Joseph Smith and wife Emma. The day after Emma's twins died at Kirtland... Julia Clapp Murdock died in childbirth, leaving her newborn twins and three other young children motherless.
Julia Murdock Smith Dixon Middleton (May 1, 1831 – September 12, 1880) was an early member of the Latter Day Saint movement and the eldest surviving child and only daughter of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale Smith. She was adopted by the Smiths.
She was adopted: not quite a Smith, not quite a Murdock, and to historians of Mormonism, not quite a Mormon. In this paper, I examine the ways adoption may have shaped Julia's life, drawing on modern psychological literature that characterizes the experiences of those who have been adopted.
Julia Murdock Smith was born on 30 April 1831, in Warrensville, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States. She married Elisha Dixon in 1849, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States. She lived in Sonora Township, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1860.
Jan 1, 2014 · In late April 1831, Emma Smith, wife of the Prophet Joseph Smith, gave birth to twin babies at Kirtland, Ohio. The two infants lived only a few hours. Within a day of Emma's delivery, Julia Clapp Murdock of Orange, Ohio, also gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl.
