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Em 1839, aos 18 anos, Zina chegou com seus pais em Nauvoo depois de serem expulsos do Missouri, um fiel missionário SUD, Henry Jacobs a cortejou durante 1840-1841. Naquela mesma época, Joseph Smith tinha ensinado a Zina a doutrina do casamento plural, e três vezes pediu-lhe para que se casasse com ele. Ela se recusou a cada vez, e casou-se com Henry em 07 de março de 1841. [1] Zina e Henry foram casados por John C. Bennett, então prefeito de Nauvoo. Eles haviam convidado Joseph para realizar a cerimônia, mas Bennett entrou em cena quando Joseph não chegou:
... Zina pediu ao Profeta para realizar o casamento. Eles foram ao cartório e o Profeta não chegou, por isso foram casados por John C. Bennett. Quando viram Joseph, perguntaram-lhe por que não veio. O profeta disse-lhes que o Senhor tinha lhe dado a saber que ela era para ser sua esposa Celestial. [2]
Family tradition holds, then, that Zina and Henry were aware of Joseph's plural marriage teachings and his proposal to Zina. While this perspective is late and after-the-fact, it is consistent with the Jacobs' behaviour thereafter. Zina's family also wrote that Henry believed that "whatever the Prophet did was right, without making the wisdom of God's authorities bend to the reasoning of any man." [3]
On 27 October 1841, Zina was sealed to Joseph Smith by her brother, Dimick Huntington. She was six months pregnant by Henry, and continued to live with him.
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