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  2. Stephen, Temperance, and Alvera Mack
  3. Lucy Mack Smith visit to Pontiac in her own words
  4. Samuel Bent
  5. Joseph Smith and the Three Witness in Pontiac
  6. Edward Stephenson
  7. Joseph Bryant Hawkes
  8. Nahum (Naham) Curtis
  9. Elijah Fordham
  10. Events & History from 1950 Onward

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  The emergence and growth of the Church in Pontiac is credited to Almira Mack and Lucy Mack Smith. Lucy’s brother Stephen Mack moved from Tunbridge, Vermont, to Detroit, Michigan, in 1807 and then settled in Pontiac, twenty-six miles north of Detroit in 1818. 14  Almira Mack, 15  the youngest of Stephen’s twelve children, left Pontiac to visit her aunt Lucy in Manchester, New York, in May 1830. On hearing the message of the restoration, she received baptism into the Church. 16  In 1831, Almira moved to Kirtland, Ohio, with the Smiths. On June 7, 1831, Hyrum Smith, John Murdock, Lyman Wight, and John Corrill were commanded by revelation to journey to Missouri “by the way of Detroit.” 17  Almira Mack and Lucy Smith accompanied Hyrum on this mission as far as Pontiac in order to visit the Macks. The missionary efforts in Michigan proved fruitless for Hyrum and his companions. Leaving Lucy with the Mack family, the four missionaries left Michigan and traveled in a ...
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Initial History of the Church in Pontiac 1830-1845

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  Initial History of the Church in Pontiac 1830-1845 Stephen Mack, an uncle of the Prophet Joseph Smith, was the founder of Pontiac. He was married to Temperance Bond and they had twelve children. Woodward Ave was laid out by him to move his products, mostly lumber, from his Pontiac businesses to the market place, Detroit on the river. He died in 1826. So his family and business travel past the future site of the Detroit Michigan Temple on Woodward Ave. Shortly after the Church was organized, one of his daughters, Almira Mack, traveled to Manchester, New York to visit her aunt, Lucy Mack Smith, mother of the prophet. She received the gospel as soon as she heard it and was baptized May 1830, at Palmyra, Wayne Co., New York by David Whitmer and confirmed by Joseph Smith. Almira Mack Covey was the first Michigan convert. Almira stayed with aunt Lucy until she returned in 1831 with Lucy, her cousin Hyrum Smith, brother of the prophet, Lyman Wight, John Murdock (Sallie Shipley...
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