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Evidence of sexual relations in Joseph Smith's plural marriage with Almera Woodard Johnson:

Wife’s Name	Witness	Quotation	Reference
Almera Woodard Johnson	Benjamin F. Johnson	[Joseph Smith] was at my house… where he occupied my sister Almira’s room and bed.	My Life's Review. Independence, MO: Zion's Printing and Publishing Co., 1947, 96
		“[Joseph Smith] remained two days, lodging at my house with my sister as man and wife (and to my certain knowledge he occupied the same bed with her). This visit was on the 16^th and 17^th of May, 1843, returning to Nauvoo on the 18^th.	Joseph F. Smith Affidavit Books, 2:6-7, 1869, CHL MS 3423 fd 5; Jenson, Historical Record, 6:222.
		“The Prophet again Came and at my house ocupied the Same Room & Bed with my Sister…”	Dean R. Zimmerman, ed., I Knew the Prophets: An Analysis of the Letter of Benjamin F. Johnson to George F. Gibbs, Bountiful, UT: Horizon, 1976, 44.
		“[As] for my younger sister the Prophet made me the medium of his courtship; and I saw her married to him in the summer of 1843, and I further know that they roomed together as husband and wife at various times in my home at Macedonia, where he associated with other of his plural wives and various times as he had occasion."	Benjamin F. Johnson letter to Frank Feely, Dec 10, 1897, in the John M. Whitaker Papers, CHL. See also MS 5, bx 27, fd 7, CHL.
		"The Prophet stayed… there [at my house] with my sister Almira as his wife."	B. F. Johnson to Anthon H. Lund, May 12, 1903, Lund Papers, CHL.
	Self	On a certain occasion in the spring of the year 1843,,, I was sealed to the Prophet Joseph Smith… After this time I lived with the Prophet Joseph as his wife, and he visited me at the home of my brother Benjamin F. at Macedonia.”	Almera W. Johnson, affidavit dated August 1, 1883, digitized holograph, MS 3423, CHL.[1]

[1] Almera Johnson, Affidavit August 1, 1883, CHL MS 3423_1_3s. Published in Joseph Fielding Smith, Blood Atonement and the Origin of Plural Marriage, Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1905, 71.