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D.C. Smith Reference in Dahinda
Good afternoon,

I was going down a rabbit hole this afternoon and looked up Dahinda, where I grew up in the 80/90's. There is an editorial note that "(D. C. Smith referenced above would be Don Carlos Smith, one of the sons of Joseph Smith)". This was interesting, so I looked deeper into it and found that there were at least two Don Carlos Smiths, one being Joseph Smith's brother, and the other being Joseph Smith's son. Brother D.C. died in 1841 prior to the founding of Dahinda (https://latterdaylight.com/don-carlos-smith/). Son D.C. died just over the age of 1 from malaria (https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/person/don-carlos-smith-jss-son). It appears that you may have added this section based on the history, so I was curious if you found that there was another D.C Smith that the 1899 Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois may have been referring to?

- JC Flyboy1378 (talk) 20:23, 7 January 2024 (UTC)