William Cochran Adkins Smoot
30 Jan 1828 - 2 Feb 1920
William Cochran Adkins (Adkinson) (1828-1920) was born 30 Jan. 1828 in Roane Co., Tennessee. He was the son of Charles Adkins and Margaret Thompson McMeans. He married Martha Ann Sessions on 29 Jan. 1852 in Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory; participated in plural marriage. He was baptized in 1837. He traveled with Wilford Woodruff across the plains in 1847 and continued to interact and correspond with him for many years. He died 2 Feb. 1920 in Salt Lake City.
William Cochran Adkinson Smoot Sr. (KWVC-HNT), “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 28 Jun. 2022). William Cochran Adkins Smoot, Wilford Woodruff Papers (https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/subjects/william-cochran-adkins-smoot, accessed 1 Jul. 2022). “Margaret T. Smoot Autobiographical Sketch,” p. 6, image 11/34, MS 3479; Church History Library (https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/, accessed 28 Jun. 2022). "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 23 Jun. 2022); Charles Adkins and Margaret L. McMinn, marriage bond, 28 Dec. 1826, Roane Co., Tennessee, p. 2; citing Roane Co., Tennessee, County Court Clerk, “Marriage records (Roane County Tennessee), 1801-1962,” image 224/354; DGS 5728411. 1860 U.S. Census, Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 22, Wm. A. C. Smoot; FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 30 Jun. 2022). “Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1965,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 28 Jun. 2022); William Smoot, 2 Feb. 1920, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah, certificate 268, series 81448; Utah State Archives Research Center, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah; DGS 2229974. Note: He used his mother's second married name of Smoot after his biological father passed away.
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