FAIR is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing well-documented answers to criticisms of the doctrine, practice, and history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Difference between revisions of "Fanny Alger"
m (Bot: Automated text replacement (-{{SummaryHeader\n\|link=(.*)\n\|heading=(.*)\n\|summary=(.*)\n\|sublink +{{H1\n|L=\1\n|H1=\2\n|S=\3\n|L)) |
m (Bot: Automated text replacement (-\|sublink +|L)) |
||
| Line 6: | Line 6: | ||
|S=What do we know about Joseph Smith's first plural wife, Fanny Alger, whom he came to know in early 1833 when she stayed at the Smith home as a house-assistant of sorts to Emma (such work was common for young women at the time). There are no first-hand accounts of their relationship (from Joseph or Fanny), nor are there second-hand accounts (from Emma or Fanny's family). All that we do have is third hand accounts, most of them recorded many years after the events. | |S=What do we know about Joseph Smith's first plural wife, Fanny Alger, whom he came to know in early 1833 when she stayed at the Smith home as a house-assistant of sorts to Emma (such work was common for young women at the time). There are no first-hand accounts of their relationship (from Joseph or Fanny), nor are there second-hand accounts (from Emma or Fanny's family). All that we do have is third hand accounts, most of them recorded many years after the events. | ||
|L1=Fanny Alger was Joseph Smith's first plural wife | |L1=Fanny Alger was Joseph Smith's first plural wife | ||
| − | | | + | |L2=Claimed miscarriage of child by Joseph |
| − | | | + | |L3=Joseph Smith's Polygamy: "Fanny Alger", by Brian C. Hales |
}} | }} | ||
{{:Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Plural wives/Fanny Alger as Joseph Smith's first plural wife}} | {{:Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Plural wives/Fanny Alger as Joseph Smith's first plural wife}} | ||
Revision as of 00:45, 8 June 2017
- REDIRECTTemplate:Test3
Fanny Alger
Summary: What do we know about Joseph Smith's first plural wife, Fanny Alger, whom he came to know in early 1833 when she stayed at the Smith home as a house-assistant of sorts to Emma (such work was common for young women at the time). There are no first-hand accounts of their relationship (from Joseph or Fanny), nor are there second-hand accounts (from Emma or Fanny's family). All that we do have is third hand accounts, most of them recorded many years after the events.
Jump to Subtopic:
- Fanny Alger was Joseph Smith's first plural wife
- Claimed miscarriage of child by Joseph
- Joseph Smith's Polygamy: "Fanny Alger", by Brian C. Hales
Claimed miscarriage of child by Joseph
Summary: Two women are claimed to have had miscarriages of a child by Joseph Smith. There are serious problems with accepting either account as probable.
Joseph Smith's Polygamy: "Fanny Alger", by Brian C. Hales
Summary: The marriage of Joseph Smith to Fanny Alger, his first and only plural wife prior to the Saints settling in Nauvoo, has received much scrutiny.