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Presendia Lathrop Huntington Evidences

Sealing date: December 11, 1841

  • Presendia L. Huntington, Affidavit, May 1, 1869, Joseph F. Smith Affidavit Books, 1:7, 4:7.
  • Presendia L. Huntington, Letter to her eldest granddaughter living in 1880, April 1, 1881.
  • Malissa Lott dictation to Jenson, “First list of wives,” Document #1, Andrew Andrew Jenson Papers, MS 17956, Box 49, fd. 16.
  • Jenson, “Plural Marriage,” 233.
  • Zina Huntington Young, Journal, December 11, 1848.
  • Bennett, The History of the Saints, 256, lists as one of Joseph’s wives “Mrs. B****,” Presendia married Norman Buell.
  • Oliver Huntington, Journal, February 18, 1883.
  • Wilford Woodruff, “Historian’s Private Journal,” (one volume, 1858-1878), undated statement written between a July 1, 1866 entry and a November 18, 1874 entry. Date is for 1840. See chart below.
  • Wells, “A Venerable Woman: Presendia Lathrop Kimball,” 163.
  • Nauvoo Temple proxy marriage to Joseph Smith, February 4, 1846. Brown, Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and Anointings,, 285.
  • Orson F. Whitney, Life of Heber C. Kimball, 418–19.

Chart of evidences and the dates provided. Red=1840, Blue=1841:

YearSourceMarriage datecomments
1842Bennett, The History of the Saints, 256, lists as one of Joseph’s wives “Mrs. B****.” Presendia married Norman Buell.No date
1846Nauvoo Temple proxy marriage to Joseph Smith, February 4, 1846. Brown, Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and Anointings,, 285.No date
1848Zina Huntington Young, Journal, December 11, 1848.On “Monday, Dec 11th, 1848,” Zina Huntington recorded in her journal: “This morning My sister Presendia moved. . .7 years ago to day since Presendia was sealed to Joseph Smith.”Earliest of any dates
1866 to 1874Wilford Woodruff, “Historian’s Private Journal.”“December 11, 1840”Source unknown
1869Presendia L. Huntington, Affidavit, May 1, 1869, Joseph F. Smith Affidavit Books, 1:7, 4:7.December 11, 1841Firsthand-participant
1869Dimick Huntington Affidavit, Joseph F. Smith Affidavit Books, 1:19, 4:19December 11, 1841Firsthand-eyewitness
1869Fanny Huntington Affidavit, Joseph F. Smith Affidavit Books, 1:21, 4:21“fall of the year 1841”Firsthand-eyewitness
1881Presendia L. Huntington, “Autobiographical Sketch,” 1881, MS 742, CHL.“in 1841 I entered into the new & everlasting Covenant was sealed to Joseph Smith the Prophet & Seer”Firsthand-participant
1883Oliver Huntington, Journal, February 18, 1883.No date
1883Wells, “A Venerable Woman: Presendia Lathrop Kimball,”Woman’s Exponent 11 (April 1, 1883): 163.No date
1887Malissa Lott dictation to Jenson, “First list of wives,” Document #1, Andrew Andrew Jenson Papers, MS 17956, Box 49, fd. 16.No date
1887Jenson, “Plural Marriage,” 233.December 11, 1841First published date
1888Orson F. Whitney, Life of Heber C. Kimball, 1888, 418–19.No date