Gracia jones st george ut biography

My name is Gracia Normandeau Jones.

Last 17 March 2018, I will celebrate the sixty-second anniversary of my baptism into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

My name is Gracia Normandeau Jones.

Gracia N. Jones has degrees in family science, history and biblical studies from George Wythe College in Cedar City, Utah.

I was a stay at home mom most of the years of raising my family.

Gracia N. Jones was born in , in Ronan, Montana.

In , she moved to St. George, Utah, where she began to write music prolifically about her family heritage.

My grandmother, Coral, was a granddaughter of Joseph and Emma Hale Smith; her father, Alexander Hale Smith, was their third surviving son. Many people ask how it is I am a convert when I am a great-great granddaughter of the Prophet Joseph Smith.

It was several years after my conversion before I finally pieced together the family history and learned the reason my family had never spoken of Joseph Smith.

In the terrifying aftermath of the martyrdom of Joseph Smith, and his elder brother, Hyrum, at Carthage, Illinois, in 1844, my great-great-grandmother, Emma, was left widowed, with four minor children: adopted daughter, Julia, 12; and sons, Joseph III, 11 ½, Frederick, 8, Alexander Hale, 6, and David Hyrum born 4 ½ mo