Ancestry of
Joseph Smith

Founder of the Mormon Church

Sarah Olmstead

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of Joseph Smith — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 57 
  • Father:
  • Nicholas Olmstead 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Loomis   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1641 
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Nov 1709 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • George Gates
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1661 
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  Joseph Gates

  Sarah Gates

  Daniel Gates (Ahnentafel No:28 )

• Sources for Sarah Olmstead

  • ¹ Anderson, Mary Audentia Smith, Ancestry and Posterity of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale: With Little Sketches of Their Immigrant Ancestors All of Whom . . ., Independence, Missouri: Herald Publishing House (1929), see chart preceding p. 51.
  • ² Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Cuneo Press (1931), Vol. 2, p. 566.
  • ³ MacGunnigle, Bruce Campbell, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 4, 3rd ed., Edward Fuller, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2006), 24.
  • ⁴ Olmsted, Henry King and Rev. George K. Ward, Genealogy of the Olmsted Family in America: Embracing the Descendants of James and Richard Olmsted and . . ., New York: A.T. De La Mare Printing and Publishing Company, Ltd. (1912), 12.