Evidence of sexual relations in Joseph Smith's plural marriage with Sylvia Sessions:

Witness

Quotation

Reference

Josephine Sessions Fisher

(daughter)

“Just prior to my mother’s death in 1882 she called me to her bedside and told me that her days on earth were about numbered and before she passed away from mortality she desired to tell me something which she had kept as an entire secret from me and from all others but which she now desired to communicate to me. She then told me that I was the daughter of the Prophet Joseph Smith, she having been sealed to the Prophet at the time...”

Josephine F. Fisher, certificate, February 24, 1915.  Original in Vault Folder CHL, Ms 3423.[1]

Angus Cannon told Joseph Smith III in 1905:  ‘I will now refer you to one case where it was said by the girl's grandmother that your father has a daughter born of a plural wife. The girl's grandmother was Mother Sessions, who lived in Nauvoo and died here in the valley. She was the grand-daughter of Mother Sessions . . . Aunt Patty Sessions, asserts that the girl was born within the time after your father was said to have taken the mother. And I want you to understand that I know your father lived and died a Prophet of the Living god, and I will be the last one to seek evidence of anything that the world might be pleased to criticize in his life, knowing that he alone was accountable to God for his conduct.’

Statement in 1905 interview with Joseph Smith III, CHL.

George H. Brimhall, recorded on January 1, 1888:  “Went to Spanish Fork…   Evening had a talk with Father Hales, who told me that it was said that Joseph Smith had a daughter named Josephine living in Bountiful, Utah… Soon the contemporaries of the Prophet Joseph will be all gone.”

Diary of George H. Brimhall, Vol. 1, typescript, n.d., n.p. Jennie H. Groberg, ed., Harold B. Lee Library, for date. [2]