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Books by Brian C. Hales dealing with "Mormon
fundamentalist" polygamy:
In his book, Nauvoo Polygamy: “…but we called it celestial marriage,” (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2008), George D. Smith lists a total of thirty-eight plural wives for Joseph Smith. His tally excludes Fanny Alger but includes Emma Smith. He also adds five additional names. Unfortunately, George Smith provides no new evidence to support this expanded number. To increase the number of plural wives, he simply lowers the evidentiary bar, casting his net wider to inflate the total. (See pages 171, 135, 208, 219, etc.)
The five women and supportive evidence is listed below:
● John C. Bennett, The History of the Saints, Boston: Leland and Whiting, 1842, 256: "Miss B*****.”
●
Apr. 4, 1899 proxy sealing to Joseph Smith to
“Sarah Rapson.” under the direction of President
Lorenzo Snow, Salt Lake Temple Sealing Records,
Book D, 243, GS film, 184, 590, Family History
Library.[1]
She is also identified as “Sarah Poulterer,”
“Sarah Poulter,” “Sarah Davis,” and “Sarah
Royson.”[2]
●
Nauvoo temple proxy marriage to Joseph Smith,
February 6, 1846.[3]
●
Lyndon Cook reports she was sealed “for time and
eternity to Joseph Smith 24 Jul 1843, but
provides no documentation.[4]
● Orson F. Whitney, Life of Heber C. Kimball, Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1945,
● A
Nauvoo Temple record identifies her as “Sarah
Smith.”[5]
●
Nauvoo temple proxy marriage to Joseph Smith,
January 17, 1846.[6]
●
On October 29, 1843, Phebe was invited to join
those men and women who had received their
endowment.[7]
● Joseph Smith III to Bro. E.C. Brand, Joseph Smith III [no date – likely early 1880s] Letter Press Book, P6, JSLB4, pages 63-67, Community of Christ Archives.
●
Nauvoo temple proxy marriage to Joseph Smith,
February 3, 1846.[8]
●Orson
F. Whitney, Life of Heber C. Kimball,
Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1945, 419.
●A Nauvoo Temple record reportedly identifies her as “Mary Smith.”[9]
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[1]
Thomas M. Tinney, "The Royal Family of
the Prophet Joseph Smith, Junior: First
President of the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints," typescript, 1973,
41, 63.
[2]
No person by the name of “Sarah Bapson”
has been identified as existing in
Nauvoo at any time.
No manuscript documentation has
been found identifying Bennett’s “Miss
B*****” as Sarah Rapson.
[3]
Lisle Brown,
Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and
Anointings: a Comprehensive Register of
Persons Receiving LDS Temple Ordinances,
1841-1846, Salt Lake City: Signature
Books, 2006, 285.
[4]
Lyndon W. Cook,
Nauvoo Marriages Proxy Sealings
1843-1846, Provo, Utah: Grandin Book
Company, 2004, 17fn3.
[5]
See Lyndon W. Cook,
Nauvoo Marriages Proxy Sealings
1843-1846, Provo, Utah: Grandin Book
Company, 2004, entry 214, pages 190-91;
see also page 15.
[6]
Lisle Brown,
Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and
Anointings: a Comprehensive Register of
Persons Receiving LDS Temple Ordinances,
1841-1846, Salt Lake City: Signature
Books, 2006, 282.
[7]
Brigham Young, Diary, October 29, 1843,
CHL; see Devery S. Anderson and Gary
James Bergera, eds.
Joseph Smith’s Quorum of the Anointed
1842-1845:
A
Documentary History, Salt
Lake City: Signature Books, 2005, 31.
[8]
Lisle Brown,
Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and
Anointings: a Comprehensive Register of
Persons Receiving LDS Temple Ordinances,
1841-1846, Salt Lake City: Signature
Books, 2006, 284.
[9]
See Lyndon W. Cook,
Nauvoo Marriages Proxy Sealings
1843-1846, Provo, Utah: Grandin Book
Company, 2004, entry 213, page190.
This is contradicted by the
“summary” of the Book of Proxy Sealings
provided by Devery S. Anderson and Gary
James Bergera, (The
Nauvoo Endowment Companies: 1845-1846: A
Documentary History, Salt
Lake City: Signature Books, 2005, 581).
