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|summary=It is claimed that on 18 August 1842 Joseph Smith wrote a “love letter” to Sarah Ann Whitney requesting a secret rendezvous or "tryst." Joseph had been sealed to Sarah Ann three weeks prior to this time. What does this letter actually say?
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|summary=Did those who entered into plural marriage do so simply because Joseph Smith (or another Church leader) "told them to"? Is this an example of "blind obedience"?  No, they bore witness that only powerful revelatory experiences convinced them that the command was from God.
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Plural wives of Joseph Smith, Jr.

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Divine manifestations to plural wives, their families, and other members

Summary: Did those who entered into plural marriage do so simply because Joseph Smith (or another Church leader) "told them to"? Is this an example of "blind obedience"? No, they bore witness that only powerful revelatory experiences convinced them that the command was from God.

Specific wives

Fanny Alger

Fanny Alger

Summary: What do we know about Joseph Smith's first plural wife, Fanny Alger, whom he came to know in early 1833 when she stayed at the Smith home as a house-assistant of sorts to Emma (such work was common for young women at the time).

Louisa Beaman

  • Louisa Beaman

Prescindia Lathrop Huntington Buell

Sarah Kingsley Howe Cleveland

Agnes Moulton Coolbrith

  • Agnes Moulton Coolbrith

Elizabeth Davis Goldsmith Brackenbury Durfee

Esther Dutcher

Hannah S. Ells

  • Hannah S. Ells

Olive Grey Frost

Desdemona Catlin Wadsworth Fulmmer

  • Desdemona Catlin Wadsworth Fulmmer

Lucinda Pendleton Morgan Harris

  • Lucinda Pendleton Morgan Harris

Elvira Annie Cowles Holmes

Sarah Maryetta Kingsley Howe

  • Sarah Maryetta Kingsley Howe

Zina Huntington

Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs

Marinda Nancy Johnson Hyde

Almera Johnson

Helen Mar Kimball

Helen Mar Kimball

Maria Lawrence

  • Maria Lawrence
    • Claimed mismanagement of the Lawrence estate—
      Brief Summary: Joseph Smith was appointed the guardian of two daughters, Maria and Sarah Lawrence, and their inheritance. He later married them in plural marriage. The evidence shows that Joseph Smith faithfully discharged his legal duties, despite the claims made by some nineteeth-century and modern critics. (Click here for full article)
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Sarah Lawrence

  • Sarah Lawrence
    • Claimed mismanagement of the Lawrence estate—
      Brief Summary: Joseph Smith was appointed the guardian of two daughters, Maria and Sarah Lawrence, and their inheritance. He later married them in plural marriage. The evidence shows that Joseph Smith faithfully discharged his legal duties, despite the claims made by some nineteeth-century and modern critics. (Click here for full article)
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Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner

Malissa Lott

Sylvia Sessions Lyon

Martha McBride

Emily Partridge

Emily Partridge

  • Eliza Partridge

Rhonda Richards

  • Rhonda Richards

Ruth Vose Sayers

Patty Bartlett Sessions

Delcena Diadamia Johnson Sherman

  • Delcena Diadamia Johnson Sherman

Mary Heron Snider

Eliza R. Snow

Eliza R. Snow

Lucy Walker

Sarah Ann Whitney

Sarah Ann Whitney

Nancy Maria Winchester


Flora Ann Woodworth

  • Flora Ann Woodworth

Fanny Young

  • Fanny Young


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