Joseph Smith’s Wives
If this was ordained of God then why did Smith and the Church lie about it?
Part 1, listed here, contains the list of wives and dates they married Smith. Part 2 contains the references and notes for each wife.
| Wife# | Marriage date to Smith | Wife’s name &
age
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Husband’s name | ||
| 1 | January 27,1827
|
Emma Hale(22)
|
single | ||
| April 1830 –
Book of Mormon published. Jacob 2:23-24, 27 clearly states that man shall only have one wife.
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| Church demands one wife system.February 9, 1831 –
D&C 42:22 given to Smith as a revelation from God; |
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| 2 | 1833 | Fanny Alger(16)
|
single | ||
| Church denies practice of polygamy.September 24, 1834 –
This text is part of D&C 101 from 1834 – 1876. Also see: History of the Church 2:247-248 |
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| No fellowship with polygamists.May 1837 –
Vol. 3, No. 8 Kirtland, Ohio, May, 1837. Messenger & Advocate, 3:511 (October 1836-Sept. 1837) |
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| 3 | 1838(33) | Lucinda PendletonMorgan Harris
(37)
|
GeorgeWashington
Harris |
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| Smith denies marriage to Alger.April 11, 1838
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| Church denies practicing polygamy.May 1838
History of the Church 3:28 |
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| 4 | February 11,1841 | HannahAnn
Dubois (Smith) (32-33) |
PhiloDibble | ||
| 5 | April 5, 1841 | Louisa Beaman (26) | single | ||
| 6 | Oct. 27, 1841 | Zina DianthaHuntington
(Jacobs) (20)
|
HenryBailey
Jacobs |
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| 7 | Dec. 11, 1841 | Presendia Lathrop Huntington (Buell)(31)
|
Norman Buell | ||
| 8 | Jan. 6, 1842 | Agnes MoultonCoolbirth
(33)
|
widowed | ||
| 9 | Jan. 17, 1842 or late Feb. | Mary ElizabethRollins Lightner (23)
|
Adam Lightner | ||
| 10 | February 8,1842
|
Sylvia PorterSessions Lyon
(23)
|
WindsorLyon | ||
| 11 | March 9,1842
|
Patty BarlettSessions (47)
|
DavidSessions | ||
| 12 | April 1842 | Marinda NancyJohnson Hyde
(26)
|
Orson Hyde | ||
| 13 | Before June1842 | SarahBapson
(48-51)
|
??? | ||
| 14 | 1842 | SarahScott
Mulholland [26]
|
widowed | ||
| 15 | 1842 | Mary Houston(Hustin)
(24)
|
single | ||
| 16 | June 1842 | ElizabethDavis
Bracken-bury Durfee (50-51)
|
JabezDurfee | ||
| 17 | Late 1842 | Sally (Sarah) A.Fuller
(27) |
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| 18 | June 29, 1842 | SarahMaryetta
Kingsley Howe Cleveland (53-54) |
JohnCleveland | ||
| 19 | Bef.July 1842
|
Delcena JohnsonSherman
(37-38)
|
widowed | ||
| 20 | June 29,1842 | ElizaRoxcy
Snow (38)
|
single | ||
| 21 | July 27,1842 | SarahAnn
Whitney (17) |
single | ||
| Church denies teaching polygamy.August 1842 –
Millennial Star, Vol. 3, No. 4, pg. 73
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| 22 | August1842 | MarthaMcBride
Knight (37) |
widowed | ||
| 23 | 1842 | MarthaM.
Kimball
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| Church denies practicing polygamy.September 1842 –
Times and Seasons 4:143, 909
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| 24 | 1842/1843 | MaryHeron
(Snider) (38-39) |
JohnSnider | ||
| 25 | February1843 | Ruth VoseSayers
(33) |
EdwardSayers
[non-LDS] |
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| 26 | May1843 | Flora AnnWoodworth
(16) |
single | ||
| 27 | March 4,1843 | EmilyDow
Partridge (19)
|
single | ||
| 28 | March 8,1843 | ElizaMaria
Partridge (22) |
single | ||
| 29 | April1843 | AlmeraWoodard
Johnson (30)
|
single | ||
| 30 | April27,
1843 |
MargaretMoon
(23)
|
WilliamClayton | ||
| 31 | May1,
1843 |
LucyWalker
(17)
|
single | ||
| 32 | May1,
1843 |
SarahLawrence
(17)
|
single | ||
| 33 | May1843 | MariaLawrence
(19)
|
single | ||
| 34 | May1843 | HelenMar
Kimball (14)
|
single | ||
| 35 | Mid1843 | HannahElls
(29-30) |
single | ||
| 36 | June1,
1843 |
ElviraAnnie
Cowles Holmes (29)
|
JonathanHolmes | ||
| Revelation from God to practice polygamy – it becomes mandatory for salvation.July 12, 1843 –
D&C 132:4, 6 |
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| 37 | June12,
1843 |
RhodaRichards
(58)
|
single | ||
| 38 | July1843 | DesdemonaWadsworth
Fullmer (32)
|
single | ||
| 39 | Mid 1843/ orApril
12, 1843 |
OliveGrey
Frost (27)
|
single | ||
| 40 | August1843 | CatherineP.
Smith |
???? | ||
| 41 | Sept.20,
1843 |
MelissaLott
(19)
|
single | ||
| 42 | 1842 or1843 | NancyMaria
Winchester (14)
|
single | ||
| 43 | November2,
1843 |
FannyYoung
Carr Murray (56)
|
widowed | ||
| Mormon elder ex-communicated for preaching polygamy.Thursday, February 1, 1844 –
Times & Seasons, vol. 5 (January 1844-January 1, 1845): pg. 423 |
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| 44 | 1832/1833
Or 1841- 1843 |
ViennaJacques
(born 1787)
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| 45 | 1841/-1843 | Mrs.Tailor | |||
| 46 | Before1844?? | OliveAndrews
(26)
|
single | ||
| 47 | 1844 | LydiaKenyon
(Carter) (38-39) |
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| 48 | 1/17/1844 or
Before 1844 |
JaneTippets
(Tibbets) (39)
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| Polygamy mandatory for salvation.Wednesday, February 21, 1844
TPJS, pg. 332
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| 49 | 1/27/1846/
Before 1844?? |
Sophiaor Aphia
Woodman (48)
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| 50 | 1840,1844
or 1845 |
Clarissa ReedHancock
(30-31) |
LeviHancock | ||
| 51 | January1846 | CordeliaCalista
Morley (23) |
FrederickW.
Cox |
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| 52 | January1846 | Elizabeth Davis(55) | CorneliusP.
Lott |
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| 53 | January19,
1846 |
PhebeWatrous
(41) |
LucianWoodworth | ||
| 54 | February6,
1846 |
MaryAnn
Frost Stearns Pratt (35) |
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| 55 | January20,
1846
|
Sally(Sarah)
Ann Fuller |
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| 56 | January19,
1852 |
AmandaMelissa
Barnes (43)
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| 57 | November29,
1855 |
RachelIvins
(34)
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| 58 | Spring1843 | AlmiraBarton | |||
Yikes! He had a REAL problem…Those he coerced from their husbands is the saddest part. Yet if any of them truly read the Bible, they would not have fallen for this cult and Smith’s lies.
Yet in the 20th C. we had Waco, TX and the Branch Davidians cult in 1992, with that man taking all those women, too.
Well I USED to feel sorry for those “poor women” as well. Don’t get me wrong, my heart hurts they were deceived and I’ll always feel that way. Like you said Sue, they should’ve read their Bibles. 😉
However, when I began doing in-depth research about these women, my mind quickly changed. I’m just about finished with another installment of Mormonism’s leaders and polygamy. The majority of these women went into these God forsaken relationships with either Smith, Young, Kimball or whomever, with their eyes wide open and many of them hid these clandestine affair marriages from their husbands.
There were children born to many of these women while being married to two men at the same time and who knows who their daddy was?
This reminds me of my own family.
We’d go to family reunions and wear name badges with our grandmother’s name because we all had the same grandfather.
My heart hurts for the deceit of being tricked into believing in a false god. But I can never feel bad for people covering up their sin and continuing to perpetuate the lie.
Michelle
What a horrible story about Smith’s wives! Sounds like he was just out to get other men’s wives under the guise of celestial heaven and all of that. Rather, he was making up the rules as he went along. If the women hid those trystsfrom their husbands, the don’t have my pity either.
I can’t even begin to imagine the suffering in polygamous relationships. It certainly is all for the man and not for women.
I also cannot even begin to think of your family having reunions like that. This is difficult to picture, let alone even feel what you have gone through. BUT, thanks be to God that you are away from all that evil and safely in Jesus’ arms forever!
Oh! To be free and able to live without fear, that is the joy!