MARY HEATHMAN SMITH- A Monumental Life!
MARY HEATHMAN SMITH-A Monumental life! Annette’s great, great, great grandmother was born January 21,1818 in Winkleigh, Devon, England to Isaac Heathman and Elizabeth Parker, born 5 th in a family of 8 children. Mary studied medicine in England, working under the guidance of some of the most skillful doctors in England at the time and received certificates of graduation in obstetrics and surgery. She practiced medicine in England for many years before immigrating to the United States in 1862. She and husband John Smith had married on April 29,1840. They became converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1850 and in May of 1861, John left for the United States to prepare a way for Mary and their 9 children who would come in August of 1862. Settling in Huntsville, Utah, Mary was the only doctor in the valley and for 30 years, in storm or sunshine, during the bleakest of winter or the darkest of night, she attended to the people of Ogden Valley with a courage a