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There are currently 49 women on this list. However, historians disagree as to the number and identity of the plural wives Smith had. Various scholars and historians, including Fawn M. Brodie, George D. Smith, [7] and Todd Compton, have attempted to identify the women who married Smith. [8]
There are currently 49 women on this list. However, historians disagree as to the number and identity of the plural wives Smith had. Various scholars and historians, including Fawn M. Brodie, George D. Smith, [7] and Todd Compton, have attempted to identify the women who married Smith. [8]
More information. Smith was the son of Patriarch Hyrum Smith and his second wife, Mary Fielding, a British convert to the church who married Hyrum after the death of his first wife, Jerusha Barden Smith. In addition to her two children, Mary Fielding Smith also raised the six children from the union of Hyrum and Jerusha.
Born on June 10, 1787, in Essex County, Massachusetts, to Henry and Lucinda Jaques, Vienna Jaques grew up to be a woman who enjoyed self-reliance. She lived into her 40s in Boston, Massachusetts, as an unmarried woman with considerable financial means.
Fanny Alger was Joseph Smith's first plural wife; Joseph Smith hid polygamy from the general Church membership; Divine manifestations to plural wives and families; Plural marriage and the law
At the age of 20, Joseph F. married his first cousin, sixteen-year-old Levira Annette Clark Smith, daughter of his deceased uncle Samuel Smith (Joseph Smith Jr.’s brother) and Samuel’s second wife Levira Clark on April 5, 1859. The next year in April he was called on a mission to England.
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Levira Annette Clark Smith. First wife of Joseph F. Smith. On April 5, 1859, the twenty year old Smith married his sixteen-year-old cousin, Levira Annette Clark Smith, daughter of Samuel H. Smith, performed by Brigham Young in his office. [13]
