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Chapter 4 | A FAIR Analysis of: Nauvoo Polygamy: "... but we called it celestial marriage", a work by author: George D. Smith
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The author points out that after Joseph's death, Rhoda Richards was sealed to "her cousin Brigham Young."
Author's quote: "Orson Hyde reported seeing a 'wonderful lustful spirit' on his visit to the polygamous Cochranite community….In 1834 he acquired his own lustful spirit in Marinda Johnson…."
Parley P. Pratt's is claimed to have been seald to his "last wife, Eleanor McComb McLean...without divorcing her legal husband, who fatally shot Parley near Van Buren, Arkansas…."
The murder of Parley P. Pratt is claimed to be "the proximate cause of the Mountain Meadows Massacre."Author's sources: * Scott F. and Maurine J. Proctor, Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt (1874; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2000), 586-99.
Did Parley P. Pratt engage in "theological philanderings?"
Edwin Wooley married Louisa Chapin Rising as a polygamous wife even though she was not divorced from her legal husband.
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