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Books by Brian C. Hales dealing with "Mormon
fundamentalist" polygamy:
● Unsigned document in Joseph F. Smith Affidavit Books, 4:56
● Mrs. Nancy Alexander, 1886 statement
● Clair Noall to Fawn Brodie, September 16, 1943.[1]
● Proxy sealing to Joseph Smith in 1858 in the Endowment House.[2]
● Benjamin F. Johnson, My Life’s Review, Mesa, Arizona: 21st Century Printing, 1992, reprint, 96.
● John Hyde, Mormonism: Its Leaders and Designs (New York: W. P. Fetridge, 1857), 84.
● 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.
● “Testimony of Benjamin Winchester,” W. L. Crowe scribe, December 13, 1900, Miscellaneous Letters and Papers, P13, f671, Community of Christ Archives, Independence, Missouri.
● 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.[3] She is also identified as “Sarah Poulterer,” “Sarah Poulter,” “Sarah Davis,” and “Sarah Royson.”[4]
● John C. Bennett, The History of the Saints, Boston: Leland and Whiting, 1842, 256.[5]
● Orson F. Whitney, Life of Heber C. Kimball, Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1945, 419.
● A Nauvoo Temple record identifies her as “Sarah Smith.”[6]
● Nauvoo temple proxy marriage to Joseph Smith, February 3, 1846.[7]
● Orson F. Whitney, Life of Heber C. Kimball, Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1945, 419.
● A Nauvoo Temple record reportedly identifies her as “Mary Smith.”[8]
● Joseph H. Jackson, A Narrative of the Adventures and Experiences of Joseph H. Jackson in Nauvoo, Exposing the Depths of Mormon Villainy (1844), reprinted for Karl Yost, Morrison, Illinois, 1960, 13.
● Joseph Ellis Johnson alleged in 1850 that he was aware of sexual relations between Joseph Smith and Mary Heron, his mother-in-law.[9]
[1] Claire Noall to Fawn Brodie, Sept. 16, 1943, Salt Lake City, Vesta P. Crawford Papers, Marriott Library, Ms 125, Bx 1, Fd. 11: “Information from Louie Richards, daughter of Edward and Mary Joy Snelgrove, and daughter-in-law of Willard Richards: "'Aunt Vienna' lived just below them in Salt Lake City. 'Yes,' said Aunt Louie, with no uncertainty when I asked her about Vienna's being sealed to the Prophet, 'she was sealed to him.'"
[2] See Jerrie W. Hurd, “Vienna Jaques, a Single Woman, Was Asked to Give Her Fortune to the Church,” Our Sisters in the Latter-day Scriptures, Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1987, 69; see also Thomas Milton Tinney, The Royal Family of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr. Salt Lake City: Tinney-Greene Family Organization, 1973, 14 (no date given but recorded between sealings of 1857 and 1867).
[3] Thomas M. Tinney, The Royal Family of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Junior: First President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City: Tinney-Greene Family Organization, 1973, 41, 63.
[4] 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.
[5] Fawn Brodie asserts that Mrs. G***** was a woman named Sally Ann Fuller Gulley.[5] Research shows that Sally Ann Fuller did not marry Samuel Gully (not “Gulley”) until January 29, 1847 in Winter Quarters. (Thomas Milton Tinney, The Royal Family of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr. Salt Lake City: Tinney-Greene Family Organization, 1973, 114.) Gully died in 1849 and Sally Ann went on to marry Elijah Knapp Fuller on September 8, 1850. Hence, John C. Bennett would not have known Sally Ann Fuller as Mrs. G***** during his stay in Nauvoo. (Fawn Brodie, No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet, 2nd rev. ed. New York, 1971, 469.) Brodie writes that “the Nauvoo Temple Record states that on January 29, 1846 [Sally Ann Fuller] was sealed to Joseph Smith Jr., “for eternity” and to [Samuel] Gulley [not Gully] “for time.” In fact, the Nauvoo temple record contains no such entry. See Lisle Brown, Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and Anointings: a Comprehensive Register of Persons Receiving LDS Temple Ordinances, 1841-1846, Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2006, 120, 379.
[6] 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. This is corroboration by the “summary” of the Book of Proxy Sealings provided by Devery S. Anderson and Gary James Bergera, eds. The Nauvoo Endowment Companies: 1845-1846: A Documentary History, Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2005, 581.
[7] 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.
[8] 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).
[9] Misc Minutes, B.Y. Collection: Sept 2, 1850, D. Michael Quinn Papers—Addition—Uncat WA MS 244 (Accession:19990209-c) Box 1. This document is available on Richard E. Turley, Jr. Selected Collections from the Archives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Provo, Utah: BYU Press, vol. 1, DVD #18 , but that entry is blacked out, restricted because it deals with Church disciplinary proceedings.
