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==Question: What did the husband of Marinda Nancy Johnson know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?== | ==Question: What did the husband of Marinda Nancy Johnson, Orson Hyde, know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?== | ||
===There are contradictory accounts which make it impossible to know for certain whether or not Orson knew of and consented to Marinda's sealing for eternity to Joseph=== | ===There are contradictory accounts which make it impossible to know for certain whether or not Orson knew of and consented to Marinda's sealing for eternity to Joseph=== | ||
Revision as of 15:30, 15 October 2014
Question: What did the husband of Marinda Nancy Johnson, Orson Hyde, know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?
There are contradictory accounts which make it impossible to know for certain whether or not Orson knew of and consented to Marinda's sealing for eternity to Joseph
Marinda Nancy Johnson was married to Orson Hyde. There are contradictory accounts which make it impossible to know for certain whether or not Orson knew of and consented to Marinda's sealing for eternity to Joseph. However, according to Hales, "If the 1842 date for the sealing between Joseph and Marinda marriage is correct, then Joseph may have been sealed to Marinda in an “eternity only” sealing without Orson Hyde’s knowledge." Yet he also notes that "John D. Lee remembered that Orson gave his permission: 'Hyde’s wife, with his consent, was sealed to Joseph for an eternal state.'" [1]
The popular rumor among critics is that Joseph was sealed to Marinda while her husband Orson was away on a mission, however, upon Hyde's return he quickly asked Joseph to seal him in a new polygamous marriage of his own.
See Biography:
- A biography of Marinda Nancy Johnson may be viewed on Brian and Laura Hales' website "josephsmithspolygamy.org".
Notes
- ↑ John D. Lee, Mormonism Unveiled, or, The Life and Confessions of the Late Mormon Bishop, John D. Lee and W. W. Bishop, eds. (St. Louis: Byron, Brand, 1877), 147. Lee added “but I do not assert the fact.”