Most Honored Woman (1830)
Latter-day Saints are well acquainted with the Prophet Joseph's wife and mother as devout and loyal believers of Joseph's prophetic calling. Fewer are familiar with his grandmother whom he blessed and called the "most honored woman on earth." Mary Duty, the mother of Joseph Sr. accepted the gospel along with her husband Asael in 1830 but neither was baptized. Asael died shortly after reading and believing the Book or Mormon. Mary traveled to Kirtland six years later with the intention of being baptized by her son, Joseph Sr., but died within ten days, unbaptized but nevertheless blessed at the age of ninety-three by her prophet grandson.
Proctor & Proctor, p. 436
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