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Website review: Remembering the Wives of Joseph Smith
My greatest hope in this regard is that the LDS Church will not defend Joseph Smith’s involvement in polygamy as appropriate.
—The anonymous author of Remembering the Wives of Joseph Smith (http://www.wivesofjosephsmith.org/Who.htm)
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Overview
FAIR's evaluation of the web site Remembering the Wives of Joseph Smith
- The owner of the site claims to be an active Latter-day Saint. He remains anonymous on the web site.
- The author's stated hope is that the Church will "not defend Joseph Smith's involvement with polygamy."
- The site uses a FAIR article to make the Church appear as if they are hiding plural marriage.
Summary
Loaded and prejudicial language
- "In the relative stability of Nauvoo, Joseph would try to establish polygamy, a practice he had flirted with in Kirtland and Missouri."
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Emma Hale
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Fanny Alger
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Lucinda Morgan Harris
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Louisa Beaman
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Zina Huntington Jacobs
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- The website states that Henry Jacobs "seemed to struggle" with Zina marrying Brigham Young, and notes that Henry wrote the following in a letter to her:
“...the same affection is there...But I feel alone...I do not Blame Eny person...may the Lord our Father bless Brother Brigham...all is right according to the Law of the Celestial Kingdom of our God Joseph.”
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"I feel alone & no one to speak to or call my own I feel like a lamb without a mother I do not blame eny person or persons no may the Lord our father Bless Brother Brigham and all pertains unto him forever tell him for me I have feelings against him nor never had, all is right according to the Law of the Celestial Kingdom of our God Joseph Zina be comforted be of good cheer and the God of our fathers bless you I know your mind has been troubled about many things but fear not all things will work together for good for them that Love God therefore the subject to council as you hav commenced and you will be saved…"
Letter from Henry B. Jacobs, no date, part of the Zina Card Brown Family Collection (1806-1972), LDS Church Archives, MS 4780, box 2, folder 1.
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Presendia Huntington Buell
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- The website claims that in exchange for giving his sister to Joseph in marriage, that Joseph offered Dimick Huntington " In return, Joseph offered him "any reward he wanted."
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Agnes Coolbrith
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Sylvia Sessions Lyon
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Mary Rollins Lightner
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Patty Bartlett Sessions
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Marinda Johnson Hyde
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Elizabeth Davis Durfee
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Sarah Kingsley Cleveland
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Delcena Johnson
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Eliza R. Snow
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Sarah Ann Whitney
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Martha McBride Knight
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Ruth Vose Sayers
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Flora Ann Woodworth
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Emily Dow Partridge
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Eliza Maria Partridge
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Almera Johnson
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Lucy Walker
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Sarah Lawrence
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Maria Lawrence
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Helen Mar Kimball
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Hanna Ells
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Elvira Cowles Holmes
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Rhoda Richards
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Desdemona Fullmer
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Olive Frost
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Melissa Lott
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Nancy Winchester
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Fanny Young
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