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+ | |subject=Contemporary witnesses regarded Joseph Smith's family as trustworthy and hard-working | ||
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+ | |sublink1=Question: Are there no contemporary pro-Mormon statements from reliable and informed sources who knew the Smith family and Joseph intimately? | ||
+ | |sublink2=Question: Was Joseph Smith's family lazy, shiftless and seeking to make a living without performing any labor? | ||
+ | |sublink3=Question: Was "money digging" Joseph Smith, Jr's primary source of income during his early years? | ||
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{{:Question: Are there no contemporary pro-Mormon statements from reliable and informed sources who knew the Smith family and Joseph intimately?}} | {{:Question: Are there no contemporary pro-Mormon statements from reliable and informed sources who knew the Smith family and Joseph intimately?}} | ||
{{:Question: Was Joseph Smith's family lazy, shiftless and seeking to make a living without performing any labor?}} | {{:Question: Was Joseph Smith's family lazy, shiftless and seeking to make a living without performing any labor?}} | ||
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{{SeeAlso|Joseph Smith/Personality and temperament|l1=Joseph Smith: personality and temperament|Joseph Smith/Character|l2=Joseph Smith: character|Joseph Smith/Early_Smith_family_history/Lazy_Smiths|l3=Lazy Smiths?|Joseph Smith/Early Smith family history/No positive witnesses|l4=No positive witnesses of Smiths?}} | {{SeeAlso|Joseph Smith/Personality and temperament|l1=Joseph Smith: personality and temperament|Joseph Smith/Character|l2=Joseph Smith: character|Joseph Smith/Early_Smith_family_history/Lazy_Smiths|l3=Lazy Smiths?|Joseph Smith/Early Smith family history/No positive witnesses|l4=No positive witnesses of Smiths?}} | ||
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