In a small farmhouse in Sharon, Vermont, Joseph Smith Jr., the fifth of Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith’s 11 children, was born on Dec. 23, 1805. This year marks 214 years since his birth, and falls in between the 175th anniversary since Joseph and Hyrum Smith’s martyrdom (June 27, 1844) and the 200th anniversary of the First Vision, which will be celebrated in the spring of 2020.