Emma & Children

 

 

Several steps in the process of making a textile are implied in this image. Julia Murdock Smith, Emma’s adopted daughter falls comfortably back into her mother’s lap while she learns how to card wool. Joseph Smith III, Emma’s first biological child to survive infancy, plays on the colorful coverlet nearby. My son Isaac posed for this adorable little baby. I can’t wait to show it off to his dates when he is a tall, strapping, and easily embarrassed, young man. ~Lynde Mott

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