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Sylvia Sessions Lyon
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Sylvia Sessions Lyon
Sylvia Sessions Lyon is likely pseudopolyandrous wife of Joseph Smith
Mother of a possible/probable child by Joseph Smith
Summary: The case of Josephine Fisher relies on a deathbed conversation: "Just prior to my mothers death in 1882 she called me to her bedside and told me that her days were about numbered and before she passed away from mortality she desired to tell me something which she had kept as an entire secret from me and from all others but which she now desired to communicate to me. She then told me that I was the daughter of the Prophet Joseph Smith…." Perhaps significantly, Josephine's name shares a clear link with Joseph's. Whether this account proves that she was his biological daughter has been debated