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|subject=Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner very unlikely to have had children fathered by Joseph | |subject=Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner very unlikely to have had children fathered by Joseph | ||
− | |summary=Even by the turn of the century, the | + | |summary=Even by the turn of the century, the Church had no solid evidence of children by Joseph. "I knew he had three children," said Mary Elizabeth Lightner, "They told me. I think two of them are living today but they are not known as his children as they go by other names."[54] Again, evidence for children is frustratingly vague—Lightner had only heard rumours, and could not provide any details. It would seem to me, however, that this remark of Lightner's rules out her children as possible offspring of Joseph. Her audience was clearly interested in Joseph having children, and she was happy to assert that such children existed. If her own children qualified, why did she not mention them? |
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