High Priest as a Baby?

James [McFate] remarried in 1844, four months after Elizabeth died.  His new wife was Lucy Thompson Lisk, sixteen years younger than James.  Their first son was born the next year in Nauvoo and was named Joseph Smith McFate. 

Lucy had a very difficult time at the birth of her first child and the prophet's wife, Emma, took care of her.  This occurred about eight months after the prophet was martyred.  James called the Patriarch to give Lucy a blessing and he promised her, "Your babe will be born and you will live to enjoy it."

The story is told by descendants of Joseph Smith McFate that the Patriarch came the next morning after the baby was born and did a very unusual thing.  He conferred on this infant of a few hours old, the Melchizedek Priesthood and ordained him a High Priest.

(Note:  I thought this was just a story made up by someone in the family, so I did some research and found that he was ordained a High Priest when he was ten days old by the Patriarch john smith, the Prophet's uncle)

Written by Virginia Griffith, great-great-great granddaughter