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Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs
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Contents
- 1 Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs
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- 1.2 Topics
- 1.3 Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs
- 1.3.1 The circumstances of Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs' plural marriage to Joseph Smith, Jr.
- 1.3.2 Divine manifestation to Zina.
- 1.3.3 Zina and polyandry
- 1.3.4 Availability for testimony in 1892 Temple Lot case
- 1.3.5 Child by Joseph ruled out by DNA testing
- 1.3.6 Claimed child(ren) fathered by Joseph ruled out by DNA evidence
- 1.3.7 Divine manifestations to Zina Huntington
- 1.3.8 Emma Smith remark to Zina
- 1.4 Joseph Smith's Polygamy: "Zina Huntington", by Brian C. Hales
- 1.5 Joseph Smith's Polygamy: "After Louisa Beaman, Joseph Smith Seeks Almost Exclusively “Eternity Only” Sealings", by Brian C. Hales
Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs
Topics
Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs
The circumstances of Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs' plural marriage to Joseph Smith, Jr.
Summary: Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs was sealed to Joseph Smith while she was already carrying the child of her husband Henry Jacobs at the time. Why would Joseph be sealed to the wife of someone who was not only married to someone else, but pregnant with her husband's child?- Analysis of Zina and Henry Jacobs—Zina and Her Men: An Examination of the Changing Marital State of Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs Smith Young by Allen Wyatt (Link)
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Divine manifestation to Zina.
Zina and polyandry
Summary: In 1839, at age 18, Zina arrived with her parents in Nauvoo after being driven out of Missouri. Faithful LDS missionary Henry Jacobs courted her during 1840–41. At the same time, Joseph Smith had taught Zina the doctrine of plural marriage, and thrice asked her to marry him. She declined each time, and she and Henry were wed 7 March 1841.Availability for testimony in 1892 Temple Lot case
Summary: Nine plural wives were living in 1892. Whether they were called as witnesses seems to have depended upon whether they could testify to conjugality in the plural marriages.Child by Joseph ruled out by DNA testing
Summary: DNA research in 2005 confirmed Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs's son Zebulon was the son of Henry Bailey Jacobs.Claimed child(ren) fathered by Joseph ruled out by DNA evidence
Divine manifestations to Zina Huntington
Summary: Did those who entered into plural marriage do so simply because Joseph Smith (or another Church leader) "told them to"? Is this an example of "blind obedience"? No, they bore witness that only powerful revelatory experiences convinced them that the command was from God.Emma Smith remark to Zina
Summary: Zina Huntington remembered a conversation between Elizabeth [Davis] and Emma [Smith] in which Elizabeth asked the prophet’s wife if she felt that Joseph was a prophet. Yes, Emma answered, but I wish to God I did not know it.Joseph Smith's Polygamy: "Zina Huntington", by Brian C. Hales
Joseph Smith's Polygamy: "After Louisa Beaman, Joseph Smith Seeks Almost Exclusively “Eternity Only” Sealings", by Brian C. Hales