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Download Essay Lucy Walker remembered the Prophet teaching that plural wives should not be coerced or manipulated: “A woman would have her choice, this was a privilege that could not […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]