Amanda Barnes Smith (February 22, 1809 – June 30, 1886) was an American Mormon pioneer.
She joined the Campbellites when Sidney Rigdon and Orson Hyde shared their beliefs with her.
After she had a set of twins, Alma and Alvira, missionaries from the Church of Christ taught her of their beliefs.
[5] Smith recorded in her journal that she had lost $50 in goods, $50 in a pocketbook and accounts, $100 in damages, and a gun worth $10.
Her son Willard recorded the event of the massacre and said that his mother received divine inspiration to heal Alma's shattered hip.
After praying, she recorded that she heard a voice that repeated the words from "How Firm a Foundation", a Mormon hymn: That soul who on Jesus hath leaned for repose, I cannot, I will not desert to its foes: That soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake, I'll never, no never, no never forsake!
[3]Throughout this event, Smith states that she had the faith that she and her family would be all right and that God would heal her son.
[3] When Alma was healed, the remaining family members moved to Quincy, Illinois, on February 1, 1839.
She traveled with Emma Smith and Eliza R. Snow to visit the governor of Illinois, Thomas Carlin.
[1] Smith was called as the Assistant Secretary of the organization on January 24, 1854, and served in that position until Brigham Young reorganized the Relief Society.
[6] She also helped in the organization of Sunday School[1] She died on June 30, 1886,[2] and was buried in Richmond, Utah.