Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Statement of Purpose
Chapter 2: Review of Literature
Models for Evaluating Families
Family Process Constructs Selected
Chapter 3: Research Methodology
Historical Sources to Be Consulted
Chapter 4: Cohesion
Generational Cohesiveness
Events of the Restoration
Parental Personalities
Interfamilial Relationships
Summary
Chapter 5: Resiliency and Religiosity: Overcoming Afflictions through Seeking the Divine
Death, Illness, and Religiosity
Financial Stress and Religiosity
Generational Religiosity
Death and Illness in the Smith Family—Early Years
Financial Devastation—The Early Years
Illness among Children
Difficulties Migrating to New York
Coping with Poverty in Palmyra
Alvin’s Death
Loss of Frame Home and Property
Coping through Conversion
Summary
Chapter 6: Conflict Management
Parental Strife
The Use of Physical Force
Joseph Jr. and William’s 1835 Conflict at Kirtland
Summary
Chapter 7: Family Work and Recreation
Family Work in New England
Family Work in Palmyra, New York
Summary of Family Work
Family Recreation
Balance between Family Work and Recreation
Summary
Chapter 8: Findings, Implications, Conclusions
Findings
Implications
Appendix: The Joseph Sr. & Lucy Mack Smith Family
