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Lucinda Pendleton Evidences
Harriet Cook Young, “Lucinda Harris biographical information sheet,” Document #2, Andrew Jenson Papers, MS 17956, Box 49, fd. 16. Jenson, “Plural Marriage,” 233. Sarah Pratt, in Wyl, Mormon Portraits, 60. […]
Elizabeth Davis Evidences
Eliza R. Snow, “First list of wives,” Document #1,, Andrew Jenson Papers, MS 17956, Box 49, fd. 16. Bennett, The History of the Saints, 256, lists a “Mrs. D*****.” Elizabeth […]
Hales-Vogel #1 FaceBook Exchanges
In September of 2013 Brian Hales sent the following message to a Church member on his FaceBook page: BRIAN HALES Hi Brother —, I’ve been out of town, but […]
Elizabeth Davis
Elizabeth Davis was born to Gilbert Davis and Abigail Reeves Davis on March 11, 1791. She joined the church on April 10, 1831. Two years later the twice-widowed Elizabeth married […]
Hales – Quinn
INTRODUCTION In a revised essay (dated December 31, 2012) entitled “Evidence for the Sexual Side of Joseph Smith’s Polygamy,” Mormon scholar D. Michael Quinn asserts that Joseph Smith practiced sexual […]
Mary Heron
According to one isolated source, Mary Heron, the legal wife of John Snider, was sexually involved with Joseph Smith in 1843.1 While the Prophet was the victim of many slanderous […]
Emily Dow Partridge
Born the third child of Edward Partridge and Lydia Clisbee Partridge on February 28, 1824, in Painesville, Ohio, Emily Partridge has one of the best documented of all of Joseph […]
Eliza Partridge
Eliza Maria, born on April 20, 1821, was the eldest child of Edward Partridge and Lydia Clisbee. In late 1830, missionary Parley P. Pratt visited the Partridges, then living in […]