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Ugo A. Perego and Scott R. Woodward, "Reconstructing the Y-Chromosome of Joseph Smith" (paper presented at the Mormon History Association Conference, 28 May 2005)

 

Carrie A. Moore, "DNA Tests Rule out 2 as Smith Descendants," Deseret Morning News 10 November 2007)

 

Michael DeGroote, "DNA solves a Joseph Smith mystery," Deseret News (9 July 2011). Don Alonzo Smith was likewise ruled out; see letter from Perego to Hales on 6 December 2011 cited in Hales, Joseph Smith's Polygamy Vol. 1, 296, note i.

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Appendix 3: Statement on Marriage, circa August 1835, p. 251, The Joseph Smith Papers, accessed December 2, 2023,

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/appendix-3-statement-on-marriage-circa-august-1835/1?highlight=1835%20doctrine%20and%20covenants%20section%20101

Account of Hearing, 8 May 1844, Copy [F. M. Higbee v. JS–A on Habeas Corpus], p. 1, The Joseph Smith Papers, accessed December 2, 2023, https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/account-of-hearing-8-may-1844-copy-f-m-higbee-v-js-a-on-habeas-corpus/1#full-transcript

 

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Complaint, 24 May 1842 [State of Illinois v. C. L. Higbee], p. 1, The Joseph Smith Papers, accessed December 2, 2023, https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/complaint-24-may-1842-state-of-illinois-v-c-l-higbee/1#source-note


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Journal of History 3 [July 1910]: 337-338
 

Anderson, M. S. [1832-1914] The Memoirs of President Joseph Smith III, p. 35
 

Briggs, E. C., Early History of the Reorganization, p. 88, 93-95.


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Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book, p. 6, The Joseph Smith Papers, accessed December 2, 2023, https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/nauvoo-relief-society-minute-book/29

Jones, Gracia (June 10, 2009). "Emma's Lost Infants". The Joseph Smith Jr. and Emma Hale Smith Historical Society, Accessed December 2, 2023, https://web.archive.org/web/20130403062038/http://www.josephsmithjr.org/index.php/history/children/84-emmas-lost-infants

Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book, p. 17, The Joseph Smith Papers, accessed December 2, 2023, https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/nauvoo-relief-society-minute-book/40

 

Times and Seasons, 1 October 1842, p. 940, The Joseph Smith Papers, accessed December 2, 2023, https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/times-and-seasons-1-october-1842/14

Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book, p. 123, The Joseph Smith Papers, accessed December 2, 2023, https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/nauvoo-relief-society-minute-book/146?highlight=Virtue%20Will%20Triumph,%E2%80%9D%20Nauvoo%20Neighbor,%2020%20Mar.%201844,%20187

Section note: Brigham Young removed Emma Smith from her place as Relief Society president by disbanding the Relief Society less than a year after becoming church president.  On 9 March 1845, he stated in a meeting of the Seventy,

          I say I will curse every man that lets his wife or daughters meet again—until I tell them—What are relief societies for?

          To relieve us of our best men—They relieved us of Joseph and Hyrum.

                                                                                                                           Brigham Young, Discourse, March 9, 1845 (excerpt);

                                                                                High Priests Quorum record, 1844-1845; Church History Library (CR 1000 1).

          When I want Sisters or the Wives of the members of this church to get up Relief Society I will summon them to my aid

          but until that time let them stay at home & if you see Females huddling together veto the concern.

                                                                                                                           Brigham Young, Discourse, March 9, 1845 (excerpt);

                                                                     Record of Seventies, Book B, 1844-1848, pp. 7-78. Church History Library (CR 3 51). 

 

According to John Taylor, “Sister Emma... made use of the position she held to try to pervert the minds of the sisters” and “taught the Sisters that the principle of Celestial [Plural] Marriage as taught and practiced by Joseph Smith the prophet was not of God.” This, he says, was “the reason why the Relief Society did not continue.” (“Relief Society Report,” Relief Society Record, July 17, 1880; “R.S. Reports,” 53-54; Harrisville Ward, Farr West Stake, General Minutes, 1850-1977, CHL, vol. 14, June 29, 1881.)


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8 April 1844 - Hyrum speaking in a general conference address. Transcript on Richard E. Turley, Jr. Selected Collections from the Archives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Provo, Utah: BYU Press, vol. 1, DVD # 1, volume 6, pages 1984-91. Found on page 11 of the addendum, which begins after page 2028

 

LDS History of the Church 6:225


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William W. Phelps, “The Voice of Innocence from Nauvoo,” [ca. Feb. 1844]; copy featured below made [Mar. 1844] by Thomas Bullock, with revisions thereafter made by Emma Smith, [Mar. 1844]; three pages; CHL (MS 15540).

See images of the original document at dcms.lds.org. Accessed December 2, 2023,

https://www.churchhistorianspress.org/the-first-fifty-years-of-relief-society/part-1/1-10

Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book, p. 123, The Joseph Smith Papers, accessed December 2, 2023, https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/nauvoo-relief-society-minute-book/146?highlight=a%20voice%20of%20innocence

 

Remarks from William Clayton in 1874; Andrew Jensen, The Historical Record 6 [May 1887]: pp. 224, 225–226

Section note: Further evidence that Emma and Hyrum were on good terms with eachother is found in her having named her last child partially in his honor. On the day Joseph rode to Carthage, he told Emma that the child she was pregnant with was a boy, and that she was to name him David. After giving birth post-martyrdom, she of her own volition chose his middle name to be Hyrum.

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Joseph Smith [III]. —The Saints' Herald, vol. 26, pp. 289, 290.
RLDS History of the Church 3:353-358; The Saints Advocate 2:49-52, October 1879

 

Ann Scott Davis, Autumn Leaves 4:18

Joseph Smith [III]. —The Saints' Herald, November 6, l934, p. 1416

Early History of the Reorganization, Apostle Edmund C. Briggs, pp. 88, 93-95


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Dean C. Jesse, “Joseph Knight’s Recollection ,” BYU Studies Quarterly 17:1, Page 29, Accessed December 2, 2023,

https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/joseph-knights-recollection-of-early-mormon-history/

Katharine Smith Salisbury’s Recollections of Joseph’s Meetings with Moroni Author(s): Kyle R. Walker Source: BYU

Studies Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 3 (2002), pp. 5–17. Published by: BYU Studies
 

D&C 25: 3,7


14

Lucy Mack Smith, republished by Orson Pratt. Biographical Sketches Of Joseph Smith The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations, 1853. https://archive.org/details/BiographicalSketchesOfJosephSmithTheProphet

Section note: Brigham Young declared both editions of Lacy Mack Smith's biography of Joseph Smith Jr to contain falsehoods and subsequently banned their sale among the members, stating, “We wish those who have these books to either hand them to their Bishops for them to be conveyed to the President’s or Historian’s Office or send them themselves, that they may be disposed of.”  Millennial Star27 (October 21, 1865):658

William Smith, A Proclamation, Warsaw Signal, Warsaw, Illinois [October 29, 1845], page 1, columns 2,4, 6 

https://salemthoughts.com/Topics/Smith_Family-Testimonies.shtml
 

RLDS 5:207


15

History Draft [1 March–31 December 1843], p. 72, The Joseph Smith Papers, accessed December 2, 2023, https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/history-draft-1-march-31-december-1843/143?highlight=Evening%20at%20home%20and%20walked%20up%20and%20down%20the%20street%20with%20scribe

History, 1838–1856, volume E-1 [1 July 1843–30 April 1844], p. 1746, The Joseph Smith Papers, accessed December 2, 2023, https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/history-1838-1856-volume-e-1-1-july-1843-30-april-1844/118?highlight=Evening%20at%20home%20and%20walked%20up%20and%20down%20the%20street%20with%20scribe

 

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Appendix 3: Statement on Marriage, circa August 1835, p. 251, The Joseph Smith Papers, accessed December 2, 2023,

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/appendix-3-statement-on-marriage-circa-august-1835/1?highlight=1835%20doctrine%20and%20covenants%20section%20101
 

RLDS History of the Church 3:351–352; The Messenger of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 1 [April 1875]: 23

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"A special conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day-Saints, assembled in the Tabernacle, Great Salt Lake Citg [sic], August 28th, 1852, 10 o'clock, a.m., pursuant to public notice". Pulished by Deseret news--extra, Great Salt Lake City, U.T., September 14, 1852, accessed on December 2, 2023 at Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/specialconferenc00chur/page/26/mode/2up

 

RLDS History of the Church 3:351–352; The Messenger of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 1 [April 1875], p. 23

Remarks from William Clayton in 1874; Andrew Jensen, The Historical Record 6 [May 1887]: pp. 224, 225–226


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D&C Section 132

Section note: Certain leaders addressed the passages of Section 132:1,37-38 by concluding that concubinage was also ordained of God:

           "I believe in concubinage, or some plan whereby men and women can live together under sacred ordinances and vows

           until they can be married.... such a condition would have to be kept secret, until the laws of our government change to

           permit the holy order of wedlock which God has revealed, which will undoubtedly occur at no distant day, in order to

           correct the social evil...." - George Q. Cannon

           "I have no doubt but concubinage will yet be practiced in this church, but I had not thought of it in this connection.

           When the nations are troubled good women will come here for safety and blessing, and men will accept them as

           concubines." - Lorenzo Snow

            "If men enter into some practice of this character to raise a righteous posterity, they will be justified in it..."

            - Wilford Woodruff (Daily Journal of Abraham H. Cannon, April 5, 1894, v. 18, p. 70)


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D&C 42:22


D&C 49:16


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1 Kings 3:14 KJV and 1 Kings 3:14 JST


1 Kings 11:4-6 KJV and 1 Kings 3:14 JST


1 Kings 14:7-8 KJV and 1Kings 14:7-8 JST

Section note: After the JST was published and copies were sent to Utah, Brigham Young instructed all church members who had copies to burn them. Brigham also forbid the apostles to quote from it. (https://ldscleardoctrine.com/Doctrine-and-Covenants/Joseph-Smiths-Inspired-Revision-of-the-Bible-The-JST.php)
 

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The Book of Mormon, Jacob chapter 2


The Book of Mormon, 1 Nephi chapter 7 verse 1

Section note: The chapter heading of Jacob 2 in the 1981 edition of the LDS Book of Mormon contains the phrase, "Jacob condemns the unauthorized practice of plural marriage". The current chapter heading for Jacob 2 reads, 'The Lord commands that no man among the Nephites may have more than one wife', but these were not present in the 19th century editions of the Book of Mormon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Mormon#Editions


22

 

Genesis 1:28


Genesis 9:1


Jacob 2:34

Jacob 3:5 RLDS

 

23

Levi Richards papers, 1837-1867; Diaries; Volume 18, 1843 May 14 - June 11; Church History Library.

 

Journal of Joseph Fielding, December 1843-March 1859, pp. 54-56

https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets/fed88dc9-9446-43bf-9fb2-5577ca690893/0/54?lang=eng

Orson Pratt, February 1853; The Seer, Volume 1; Catalogue of Works, p 30; Church History Library.

https://archive.org/details/seereditedbyorso01unse/page/30/mode/2up?q=jacob


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This analysis is a brief summary taken from a more detailed analysis by Steve Reeds of oneclimbs.com here:

https://oneclimbs.com/2017/01/05/a-proposed-reinterpretation-of-jacob-230/

25

 

L. L. Bean and G. P. Mineau, “The Polygyny-Fertility Hypothesis: A Re-evaluation,” Population Studies 40 (1986): 67–

    81; Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen, Polygamy: A Cross Cultural Analysis (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2008), 62–63.

Section note: Words of the Lord promising to "increase their seed" is found in the Book of Mormon, but in reference to the  Lamanites, not the Nephites:

For behold, they are more righteous than you, for they have not sinned against that great knowledge which ye have received; therefore the Lord will be merciful unto them; yea, he will lengthen out their days and increase their seed, even when thou shalt be utterly destroyed except thou shalt repent. Helaman 7:24


26

 

Robin McKie, "Mormon polygamists shared the flaws of the fruit fly," The Guardian, 27 Feb 2011. 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/feb/27/mormon-polygamists-fruit-fly

 

Jacob A. Moorad, Daniel E.L. Promislow, Ken R. Smith, Michael J. Wade, "Mating system change reduces the strength of sexual selection in an American frontier population of the 19th century," Evolution and Human Behavior, Volume 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 147-155, accessed December 2, 2023, http://www.ehbonline.org/article/S1090-5138(10)00120-0/abstract

Aaron O'Neil, "Total fertility rate of the United States, 1800-2020". June 21, 2022; accessed December 2, 2023,
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1033027/fertility-rate-us-1800-2020/

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National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 53, No. 20, June 14, 2005, accessed December 2, 2023
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr53/nvsr53_20.pdf

28


Mosiah 21:17

29

D&C 132:17

30

 

Oliver Preston Robinson ed., History of Joseph Lee Robinson (n. p.: History Comes Home, 2007), 27.

 

A full list of all historical retellings of 'the angel with a drawn sword' are in David M. Price's Hemlock Knots article,

https://hemlockknots.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/The-Foolish-Fable-of-an-Angel-With-A-Flaming-Sword-David-Price.pdf

 

31

Levi Richards papers, 1837-1867; Diaries; Volume 18, 1843 May 14 - June 11; Church History Library.

 

32


D&C 58:21


The Pearl of Great Price, The Articles of Faith, verse 12


33


Jacob 2:24

 

Titus 1:6-7

 

1 Timothy 3:2

 

1 Timothy 3:12

34


D&C 132:65

Section note: Brigham Young and other church leaders had the means to obtain a high number of wives because they were using church tithing funds to support themselves for their income, their wives' and children's necessities, and in the building of their houses - including three large multi-family houses in the case of Brigham Young, as well as the Amelia Palace, which was a present for Brigham's youngest wife. In the year following the martyrdom Joseph and Hyrum's brother William had stated,

       That the church funds have been misapplied, I have no hesitation in asserting, for of necessity I have been made

       acquainted with the fact, that several houses have been filled up with women who have been secretly married to Brigham

       Young, H. C. Kimble [Heber C. Kimball], and Willard Richards—women with little children in their arms, who had no

       means of support except from the tithing funds.

                                               (William Smith, A Proclamation, Warsaw Signal, Warsaw, Illinois [October 1845])

LDS historians have reported,

 

         "Brigham Young and other church authorities, when need required it, drew on the tithing resources of the church, and at

         a later date repaid part or all of the obligation in money, property, or services. No interest seems to have been paid for

         the use of these funds.... This ability to draw, almost at will, on church as well as his own funds, was a great advantage

         to Brigham Young and was certainly one of the reasons for his worldly success.... while Brigham Young was probably the

         largest borrower of funds from the trustee-in-trust, he was certainly not the only one." (Jeffrey Johnson, "The Settlement

             of the Brigham Young Estate," 1877-1879, Reprinted from the Pacific Historical Review, vol. 21, no. 1, Feb. 1952, p.7-8)

                   "... Brigham Young was largely indebted at the time of his death 'and justly owed to said church over $1,000,000.' " (Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, vol. 5, by B. H. Roberts, p.524-525, BYU Press 1965)
 

35

Norman F. Furniss, The Mormon Conflict, 1850–1859 (1960, 1977); Richard D. Poll, Quixotic Mediator: Thomas L. Kane and the Utah War (1985). William P. Mackinnon, “Thomas L. Kane’s 1858 Utah War Mission: Presidential Ingratitude and Manipulation,” Utah Historical Quarterly 86, no. 4 (2018),

https://historytogo.utah.gov/utah-war/

Brigham Young, 29 August 1852 Special Conference, as printed in Deseret news, Great Salt Lake City, U.T., September 14, 1852; page 25   https://archive.org/details/specialconferenc00chur/page/24/mode/2up?q=method

Section note: According to Wiford Woodruff, Brigham Young also stated the following:

       "He should live to see the day when thousands of women would come to the men of this Church for salvation. One man           would have to take thousands to save them." 

                                                                                   Journal of Wilford Woodruff. 28 July 1861


36

Jacob 3:3
 

Sixty-first Semiannual General Conference of the Church, Monday, October 6, 1890, Salt Lake City, Utah. 
Reported in Deseret Evening News, October 11, 1890, p. 2

Wilford Woodruff, The Discourses of Wilford Woodruff, p. 218

38


Utah Historical Quarterly, vol. 48, Winter 1980, 82

 

Youngreen, Buddy (1982). Reflections of Emma: Joseph Smith's Wife. Grandin Book.

39

 

Journal of Discourses, v. 3, pp. 319-320


Journal of Discourses, v. 4, p. 219


Journal of Discourses, v. 1, pp. 108-109


President Brigham Young to the Joint Session of the Legislature in Salt Lake City, on Thursday, February 5, 1852.


Deseret News, v. 22, no. 308, June 8, 1873;


https://www.mrm.org/young-1852-speech


Journal of Discourses, vol. 2, p. 172


Journal of Discourses vol. 1, Discourse 31


https://www.mrm.org/young-1852-speech

Section note: Brigham Young also gave us this problematic quotation during his 1861 General Conference address:

             “The woman is the glory of the man. What is the glory of the woman? It is her virginity, until she gives it into the   

            hands of the man that will be her lord and master to all eternity”           

(Brigham Young, General Conference, 8 October 1861. Salt Lake City Tabernacle. Brigham Young Papers, MS 12341 Box 49, Folder 8. Church History Department. Link: https://archive.org/details/brighamyoungdiscourseonmarriage/page/n3/mode/2up)

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Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, vol. 13, p. 95


Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, vol. 13, p. 264


41

 

"A special conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day-Saints, assembled in the Tabernacle, Great Salt Lake Citg [sic], August 28th, 1852, 10 o'clock, a.m., pursuant to public notice". Published by Deseret news--extra, Great Salt Lake City, U.T., September 14, 1852, accessed on December 2, 2023 at Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/specialconferenc00chur/page/26/mode/2up


https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170726-the-polygamous-town-facing-genetic-disaster)

https://www.childpro.org/article002.html


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https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2018/03/19/why-polygamy-breeds-civil-war


See also: https://medium.economist.com/big-love-and-big-war-exploring-the-link-between-polygamy-and-violence-67306fb3c41b

https://academic.oup.com/ej/article-abstract/132/645/1927/6501205?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false


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Deseret News, Great Salt Lake City, U.T., September 14, 1852

Utah Historical Quarterly, vol. 48, Winter 1980, 82


Draft declaration of the Twelve Apostles, reporting March 1844 meeting of Twelve, Brigham Young Papers, LDS Church Archives


Journal of Discourses, Volume 18, 6 May 1877


24 February 1860


6 October 1866 General Conference

Brigham Young, “A Few Words on Doctrine,” speech at tabernacle, October 8, 1861


Prophet Brigham Young, Deseret News, v. 22, no. 308, June 8, 1873;


44

 

Section 101 of the 1835 edition of the Doctrine & Covenants

www.truthandgrace.com/1847youngadultery.htm


Gibson, Doug (August 30, 2011).
 "Mormon apostle Pratt suffered a violent death at the hands of a cuckold". The Political Surf. Standard-Examiner.

Section note: The other plural wife of Parley P. Pratt who was still legally married to her first husband was Keziah Hill, who was married to William Hill when they emigrated from England to the Utah Valley. William's account of how Keziah came to leave him was the following,

 

"I had not been long in the Valley before Parley Pratt (one of the chief Elders) began to visit my house in my absence. One day, when I came home from the Kanyon, my wife told me that Parley had been to her, and he wanted her to leave me, telling her that I was poor and could not save her. I had lived with my wife nearly thirty years, and I am not ashamed to say I loved her, and in return, she loved me. But she said, 'he threatened to curse us both if I do not become his wife. I would rather have you, William, than all the men I ever saw,' In a few days after I came home to my wife, as I thought, but found her gone ! On inquiry I was told that Parley had been during the afternoon, and had taken her away in his carriage. I went to Brigham, and asked him to give me back my wife; but he turned himself round and said: 'If Parley has got your wife you must get another,' I saw her go to the tabernacle, in Parley's carriage, the Sunday but one after, and the moment I looked at her, a big Danite took me by the shoulders, and said, 'move on, brother Hill, you can't stand there,' I was a marked man! Six weeks after he took her, I was asked if I would have her back again, to which I indignantly replied 'Never, while my heart is warm !' She is now Parley's 12th wife. I saw her just before I came away [back to England], setting potatoes behind Parley's house, with another of his wives, and when she saw me she dropped down on the ground and covered her head with her hands. I was told the next day that she fainted; they carried her into the house, laid her on her back on the floor, and the first word she spoke was, 'Oh, William! William!"

                                                          - William Hill, as reported in a British newspaper, 2 May 1874

45

 

Letter to Joseph and Emma Smith from L. D. Wasson, 30 July 1842


Times and Seasons, 1 August 1842, p. 870-872, The Joseph Smith Papers

46

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6MLvIQGPbA

 

D&C 66:10

47

 

 

48

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Brigham_Young%27s_wives

49

 

Brigham Young, in Journal of Discourses, 18: 241 (June 23, 1874).

Section note: William King was a church member in Nauvoo who gave another origin story of early Mormon polygamy. He was interviewed by Joseph Smith III and Apostle Joseph Luff on July 26, 1901 in Los Angeles, California:


"About the year '42 there were a great many poor widows living out in the farther part of town—Nauvoo is laid off very large—and there was a good deal of complaining, and they sometimes had to suffer, as the roads were bad and they had no children large enough to send to the bishop.

"And at the conference Joseph Smith proposed that those poor widows that lived out there, and had good faithful brethren living by them, should be adopted into these brethren's families. There was a vote taken on it at the conference, and I voted for it; thought it was a good thing. It carried unanimously. Well they were adopted, there were plenty of brethren that adopted them into their families, and it went on very well for awhile. In place of treating them as one of their families, they went to making what was called spiritual wives of them. And Joseph Smith and [Nauvoo Stake President] William Marks called the Church together, at the Masonic Hall, and there the meeting was carried on for three days and nights, speaking against it, and showing the consequences of what they had done, and Joseph Smith's last speech was this, "Brethren, you that had no hand in it, for God's sake never have, for those that have had a hand in it are damned to all intents and purposes."


Bro. Luff—At about what time was that discussion?
King: Either in the fall of '43 or in the spring of '44.
Pres. Smith—Was it held in the Masonic Hall or in the Seventy's Hall?
King: It was in the Masonic Hall. The Seventy's Hall was not large enough to hold such a throng of people as was gathered there.

Bro. Luff—Was William Marks connected with that denunciation, or associated with Joseph Smith in that work?
King: He was, he was, we had a great deal of confidence in William Marks.
Brother Luff—Did he publicly talk about it?
King: That was what the meeting was for, to put it down. He spoke just the same as Joseph. They spoke time about [took turns speaking]. The meeting continued three days and three nights.
Bro. Luff—Have you any knowledge as to whether any of those men who have been prominent in Utah were present at those meetings?
King: Lots of them were, but I could not now tell who.
Bro. Luff—Do you know any others who were there that you were certain of?
King: Old David Seely, who died up here at San Bernardino, was there. He and I used to go [do Church work] together. I do not recollect of any that are now living, but David Bennett, my father-in-law was one of the members of the Church. He was there. He heard it. Cyrus H. Wheelock was there, and many others.
Bro. Luff—Did Joseph Smith, during those speeches ever make any direct statement to the effect that the conduct of those people was foreign to the general intent of the adoption?
King: That was the effect of his whole remarks, showing them where they had transgressed the law of God, in doing the way they had done.
Bro. Smith—Did you ever hear of polygamy or plural wifery in Nauvoo, before Father's death?
King: No sir, no sir, only that of which I was talking.

(Joseph Smith Fought Polygamy, Vol. 3, Chapter 13)

(Stanley Ivins Collection, Utah State Historical Society Library, Salt Lake City, Utah; also Manuscript Collection, Community of Christ Archives, Independence, Missouri)

50
 

Letter to Emma Smith and the Relief Society, 31 March 1842, p. 2, The Joseph Smith Papers

 

Times & Seasons, volume 5, page 490

51

 

52
 

Letter to Emma Smith and the Relief Society, 31 March 1842, p. 2, The Joseph Smith Papers

53

 

https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/bruce-r-mcconkie/alike-unto-god/

 

54

First Presidency Statement, 15 December 1969; printed in The New Era, February 1970

https://archive.org/details/improvementera7302unse/page/70/mode/2up

 

55

 

Official Declaration 1, “Excerpts from Three Addresses by President Wilford Woodruff Regarding the Manifesto";  

Sixty-first Semiannual General Conference of the Church, Monday, October 6, 1890, Salt Lake City, Utah. Reported in Deseret Evening News, October 11, 1890, p. 2.)

 

2 Ne. 28:14

Bruce R. McConkie, Letter of Correspondence to Eugene England, 19 February 1981; page 7

https://www.mrm.org/bruce-mcconkies-rebuke-of-eugene-england

 

58

 

https://josephsmithspolygamy.org/common-questions/sexual-polyandry/

 

59

 

https://josephsmithjr.org/little-known-facts-about-emma/

 

https://faenrandir.github.io/a_careful_examination/joseph-smith-marriage-sealing-dates/

 

61

 

D&C 132:7

 

62

 

 

63

 

Brown, “Early Mormon Adoption Theology,”

 

64

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV4dzjQsEps

 

65

 

Journal of Discourses, vol. 11, p. 268

 

Journal of Discourses, vol. 8, p. 115

 

66

Section note: Brian Hales records, 'Joseph F. Smith wrote to Orson Pratt on July 19, 1875, and stated that, as he began to put together evidence of Joseph's involvement in polygamy and its historical unfolding, he "was astonished at the scarcity of evidence, I might say almost total absense of direct evidence upon the subject"'

                                                                                                                                  Brian C. Hales, Joseph Smith's Polygamy 1:9

 

67

 

Decision of Judge Philips in Temple Lot Case, p. 43

 

68

 

https://archive.org/details/AffidavitsOnCelestialMarriage/AffidavitBook1Typescript/page/n11/mode/2up

https://uncorrelatedmormonism.com/temple-lot-case/36-melissa-lott-willes/

 

https://uncorrelatedmormonism.com/temple-lot-case/37-lorenzo-snow/

 

69

 

Decision of Judge Philips in Temple Lot Case, pp. 42-44

 

70

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a91kvdLKSU

 

71

 

Gospel Topics Essays, "The Manifesto and the End of Plural Marriage"

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics-essays/the-manifesto-and-the-end-of-plural-marriage?lang=eng

73

 

 

74

https://johnslds.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-wives-and-children-of-brigham-young.html

https://gw.geneanet.org/rpalao?lang=en&n=kimball&oc=0&p=apostle+heber+chase

 

75

 

"A special conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day-Saints, assembled in the Tabernacle, Great Salt Lake Citg [sic], August 28th, 1852, 10 o'clock, a.m., pursuant to public notice". Published by Deseret news--extra, Great Salt Lake City, U.T., September 14, 1852, accessed on January 1, 2024 at Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/specialconferenc00chur/page/26/mode/2up

76

 

https://rsc.byu.edu/saints-abroad/missionaries-called-august-1852-special-conference

 

77

 

Doctrine & Covenants 26:2

 

Doctrine & Covenants 28:12-13

 

80

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormonism_and_polygamy

 

Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 11, p. 269

 

Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 3, p. 266

Brigham Young, Deseret News, September 17, 1873 

Journal of Discourses volume 16, pg. 166. August 31, 1873

https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/desnews3/id/144068

Prophet Brigham Young, quoted by Wilford Woodruff, in Abanes, One Nation Under Gods, p. 579

The Historical Record:   https://archive.org/details/historicalrecord06jens/page/220/mode/2up

https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/benjamin-franklin-johnson-in-nauvoo-friend-confidant-and-defender-of-the-prophet/

82

 

The Prophet Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 16, p. 167

D&C 132:34

(Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, ("Defining 'Wife': The Brigham Young Households," by Jeffrey Johnson, 1987, Vol. 20, No. 3, p.62)

 

84

 

https://utahwomenshistory.org/2018/11/the-anti-polygamy-society-and-utah-womens-suffrage/ 

Section note: There are certainly testimonies of women speaking in favor of polygamy. One was Phoebe Woodruff, the first wife of Wilford Woodruff. She was known to those closest to her as being against the practice of polygamy, but in an 1878 women's meeting to non-Mormon reporters she gave a "heartfelt" testimony of the virtues of plural marriage. A friend afterwards asked her why she had changed her stance. Her reply was,

          "I have not changed. I loathe the unclean thing with all the strength of my nature, but sister I have suffered all that a

          woman can endure. I am old and helpless and I would rather stand up anywhere and say anything commanded of me

          than be turned out of my home in my old age, which I should most assuredly be if I refused to obey counsel."

85

Jacob 2:31-33, 35

Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, v. 4, pp. 55-57, also printed in the Deseret News, v. 6, pp. 235-236

 

86

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succession_crisis_(Latter_Day_Saints)

 

87

Section note: Brigham Young taught that those deemed apostates would not only be excommunicated by him, but shunned as well, setting the doctrinal precedence for church members to cut contact with family members who leave the church over disavowing polygamy:

I am not confined to love my father and mother here, if they do not love God, the fountain of all truth. In the heavens are fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers. Unless my father, mother, brother, sister, wife, and child, pertaining to the flesh, love God supremely, embrace the truth, and follow out the dictates of the Holy Ghost, they are not my kindred - I do not own them - I have nothing to do with them; they will perish, die, sink into forgetfulness, and be as though they had never been;

Journal of Discourses, Volume 8; page 206;

89

 

Spencer W. Kimball, letter to his son Edward Kimball, 1963 

 

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/mormonisms-negro-doctrine-an-historical-overview-2/

 

95

 

D&C 13:1

 

100

 

RLDS Doctrine & Covenants 116:1

103

Jacob 2:35

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