Do You Know the Smith Family?

By Amie Jane Leavitt

The prophet Joseph Smith was the fifth child born to Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith. The eleven children in the Smith family are listed below in the order they were born. Can you find their names in the word search? Look backward, across, and diagonally. After you are finished, look from left to right on each row and write the first 28 unused letters on the spaces to find a hidden message.

E	S	A	M	U	E	L	F	S	A
C	P	O	M	A	M	I	O	L	L
I	A	H	P	U	I	L	E	U	S
N	C	T	R	H	R	L	C	A	N
B	I	E	H	A	R	Y	L	T	O
G	E	V	C	E	I	O	H	I	T
H	E	N	L	R	R	M	N	F	W
O	O	R	E	A	V	I	E	I	R
D	H	P	E	S	O	J	N	W	A
B	A	B	Y	B	O	Y	W	E	W

baby boy	Joseph	Catherine
Alvin	Samuel	Don Carlos
Hyrum	Ephraim	Lucy
Sophronia	William

Hidden Message: __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ .

Answer

E	S	A	M	U	E	L	F	S	A
C	P	O	M	A	M	I	O	L	L
I	A	H	P	U	I	L	E	U	S
N	C	T	R	H	R	L	C	A	N
B	I	E	H	A	R	Y	L	T	O
G	E	V	C	E	I	O	H	I	T
H	E	N	L	R	R	M	N	F	W
O	O	R	E	A	V	I	E	I	R
D	H	P	E	S	O	J	N	W	A
B	A	B	Y	B	O	Y	W	E	W

E	S	A	M	U	E	L	F	S	A
C	P	O	M	A	M	I	O	L	L
I	A	H	P	U	I	L	E	U	S
N	C	T	R	H	R	L	C	A	N
B	I	E	H	A	R	Y	L	T	O
G	E	V	C	E	I	O	H	I	T
H	E	N	L	R	R	M	N	F	W
O	O	R	E	A	V	I	E	I	R
D	H	P	E	S	O	J	N	W	A
B	A	B	Y	B	O	Y	W	E	W

E	S	A	M	U	E	L	F	S	A
C	P	O	M	A	M	I	O	L	L
I	A	H	P	U	I	L	E	U	S
N	C	T	R	H	R	L	C	A	N
B	I	E	H	A	R	Y	L	T	O
G	E	V	C	E	I	O	H	I	T
H	E	N	L	R	R	M	N	F	W
O	O	R	E	A	V	I	E	I	R
D	H	P	E	S	O	J	N	W	A
B	A	B	Y	B	O	Y	W	E	W