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Exposé of Mormon Polygamy

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An early Mormon polygamist family
It is extremely important to know the roots of any spiritual tree. Jesus taught that if a tree is evil, it cannot produce good fruit. He said, “Beware of false prophets, who come to you dressed as sheep, but inside they are devouring wolves. You will fully recognize them by their fruits. Do people pick grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?” (Mt.7:15-16)

John the Baptist said, “The axe is already laid to the root of the trees; therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire” (Mt.3:10). John is preaching repentance and repentance is absolutely necessary, if there is to be entrance by faith into the gospel. Bad fruit comes from bad roots and good fruit cannot be expected until the old roots are dug up and abandoned. What is apparently “good fruit” is a deception, unless repentance has taken place.

The Mormons, the second fastest growing movement on earth have been on a campaign for legitimacy among evangelicals. This should not happen without a thorough renunciation of their founder, Joseph Smith, and his teachings. Yesterday, I became aware of a reopening of a Mormon museum, in which Smith’s polygamy is admitted. He had over 30 wives and this fact is documented to the degree that the Mormon Church can no longer hide it. However, polygamy, in Smith’s case, was preceded by adultery, which was later justified as “polygamy”, which became, then, an accepted practice by Mormons. The attempt to make polygamy a biblical doctrine was only a cover-up for mass adultery. Joseph Smith had sexual relations with eleven women, married at the same time to other men.


Here is a little of the story, beginning with a statement by Smith’s close companion and fellow founder of the church:  Book of Mormon witness, Oliver Cowdery, felt the relationship was something other than a marriage.  “He referred to it as ‘A dirty, nasty, filthy affair...’  To calm rumors regarding Fanny’s relationship with Joseph, the church quickly adopted a “Chapter of Rules for Marriage among the Saints”, which declared, “Inasmuch as this church of Christ has been reproached with...polygamy; we declare that we believe, that one man should have one wife...”  This “Article on Marriage” was canonized and published in the Doctrine & Covenants.  In 1852, the doctrine of polygamy was publicly announced, thus ending eighteen years of secret practice.  “The Article on Marriage” became obsolete and was later removed.

“Benjamin Johnson, a close friend of Joseph Smith, described Fanny as, ‘varry nice and comly, [to whom] everyone Seemed partial for the ameability of her character.’  She is generally considered the first plural wife of Joseph Smith.  Although undocumented, the marriage of Fanny and Joseph most likely took place in Kirtland, Ohio sometime in 1833. She would have been sixteen years old.  At the time, Fanny was living in the Smith home, perhaps helping Emma with house work and the children.  Ann Eliza Webb recalls, ‘Mrs. Smith had an adopted daughter, a very pretty, pleasing young girl, about seventeen years old.  She was extremely fond of her; no mother could be more devoted, and their affection for each other was a constant object of remark, so absorbing and genuine did it seem’”.  

“Joseph kept his marriage to Fanny out of the view of the public, and his wife Emma.  Chauncey Webb recounts Emma’s later discovery of the relationship:  ‘Emma was furious, and drove the girl, who was unable to conceal the consequences of her celestial relation with the prophet, out of her house’.  Ann Eliza again recalls:  ‘...it was felt that [Emma] certainly must have had some very good reason for her action. By degrees it became whispered about that Joseph’s love for his adopted daughter was by no means a paternal affection, and his wife, discovering the fact, at once took measures to place the girl beyond his reach...Since Emma refused decidedly to allow her to remain in her house...my mother offered to take her until she could be sent to her relatives...’

Here is the documented list of Smith´s wives, including the women, who had other living husbands. Following this list is that of the 55 wives of Brigham Young, the second president of the Mormons. These are indeed the evil roots of thorns and thistles of this movement, growing by leaps and bounds over the face of the earth. No serious and discerning Christian can ever, in the name of tolerance, accept such as brothers in Christ until serious and thorough repentance has taken place. (Please see this link for further information on the Mormons:


Wife
Date
Age
Husband*
Jan 1827 
1833 
1838 
Apr 1841 
Oct 1841 
Dec 1841 
Jan 1842 
Feb 1842 
Feb 1842 
Mar 1842 
Apr 1842 
Jun 1842 
Jun 1842 
Jul 1842 
Jun 1842 
Jul 1842 
Aug 1842 
Feb 1843 
Spring 1843 
Mar 1843 
Mar 1843 
Apr 1843 
May 1843 
May 1843 
May 1843 
May 1843 
Mid 1843 
Jun 1843 
Jun 1843 
Jul 1843 
Mid 1843 
Sep 1843 
1843 
Nov 1843
22 
16 
37 
26 
20 
31 
33 
23 
23 
47 
27 
50 
53 
37 
38 
17 
37 
33 
16 
19 
22 
30 
17 
17 
19 
14 
29 
29 
58 
32 
27 
19 
14 
56
NONE 
NONE 
George W. Harris 
NONE 
Henry Jacobs 
Norman Buell 
NONE 
Windsor Lyon 
Adam Lightner 
David Sessions 
Orson Hyde 
Jabez Durfee 
John Cleveland 
NONE 
NONE 
NONE 
NONE 
Edward Sayers 
NONE 
NONE 
NONE 
NONE 
NONE 
NONE 
NONE 
NONE 
NONE 
Jonathan Holmes 
NONE 
NONE 
NONE 
NONE 
NONE 
NONE
* Living Husband at the time of 
   Marriage to Joseph Smith




  Chart of Brigham Young's wives.[1]
No.
Marriage date and Young's age at marriage
Photo
Name, lifespan, and age at marriage
Wife's status at marriage
Notes
1
October 8, 1824(aged 23)
Miriam A. Works.jpg
Miriam Angeline Works (1806–1832) (aged 18)
first marriage
2 children; died a few months after she and Brigham Young were baptized
2
March 31, 1834(aged 32)
Mary Ann Angell Young2.jpg
Mary Ann Angell(1808–1882) (aged 27)
first marriage
This was not a plural marriage, as Young was a widower at the time; 6 children; mother of Brigham Young, Jr., John Willard Young and Joseph Angell Young.
3
June 14, 1842(aged 41)
Lucy A. Decker.jpg
Lucy Ann Decker (1822–1890) (aged 20)
abandoned by non-Mormon husband William Seeley (not divorced)
First plural wife of Brigham Young; 7 children
4
November 2, 1843(aged 42)
Augusta Adams.jpg
Augusta Adams (1802–1886) (aged 40)
married to non-Mormon Henry Cobb (divorced in 1847)
Young later married her son's ex-wife, Mary Van Cott Cobb (No. 51 below). Grandmother of architectHenry Ives Cobb.
5
November 2, 1843(aged 42)
Harriet Elizabeth Cook Young.jpg
Harriet Elizabeth Cook (1824–1898) (aged 19)
first marriage
1 child
6
May 8, 1844(aged 42)
Clarissa C. Decker.jpg
Clarissa Caroline Decker (1828–1889) (aged 15)
first marriage
5 children
7
September 1844 (aged 43)
Emily Dow Partridge Smith Young2.jpg
Emily Dow Partridge (1824–1899) (aged 20).
plural widow of Joseph Smith, Jr.
Daughter of Edward Partridge; sealed to Joseph Smith, Jr. for eternity and Young for life; 7 children; mother of Don Carlos Young.
8
September 10, 1844(aged 43)
Clarissa Ross.jpg
Clarissa Ross (1814–1857) (aged 30)
first marriage
4 children; mother of Maria Young Dougall and Willard Young
9
September 19, 1844(aged 43)
Louisa Beman.jpg
Louisa Beaman (1815–1850) (aged 29)
plural widow of Joseph Smith, Jr.
sealed to Joseph Smith, Jr.for eternity and Young for life; 5 children
10
October 3, 1844(aged 43)
Eliza Roxcy Snow photograph.PNG
Eliza R. Snow(1804–1887) (aged 40)
plural widow of Joseph Smith, Jr.
sealed to Joseph Smith, Jr.for eternity and Young for life
11
October 3, 1844(aged 43)
Elizabeth Fairchild (1828–1910) (aged 16)
first marriage
divorced 1855
12
October 8, 1844(aged 43)
Clarissa Blake (1796–?) (aged 48)
widow of -- Morse; married to Mormon husband Lyman Homiston
13
October 9, 1844(aged 43)
Rebecca Holman (1824–1849) (aged 20)
first marriage
14
October 10, 1844(aged 43)
Diana Chase (1827–1886) (aged 17)
first marriage
divorced prior to 1849
15
October 31, 1844(aged 43)
Susannah Snively Young.jpg
Susanne Snively (1815–1892) (aged 29)
first marriage
one daughter
16
November 7, 1844(aged 43)
Olive Grey Frost (1816–1845) (aged 28)
plural widow of Joseph Smith, Jr.
sealed to Joseph Smith, Jr.for eternity and Young for life
17
January 15, 1845(aged 43)
Mary Ann Clark (1816–?) (aged 28)
previously married to —— Powers (unknown if she was widowed, divorced, or separated)
divorced June 1851
18
January 16, 1845(aged 43)
Margaret P. Young.jpg
Margaret Pierce (1823–1907) (aged 22)
widow of Morris Whitesides
sealed to Morris Whitesides for eternity and Young for time; 1 child
19
January 16, 1845(aged 43)
Mary Pierce (1821–1847) (aged 25)
first marriage
20
April 30, 1845(aged 43)
Emmeline Free.jpg
Emmeline Free (1826–1875) (aged 18)
first marriage
10 children
21
May 22, 1845(aged 43)
Mary Elizabeth Rollins (1818–1910) (aged 26)
married to non-Mormon Adam Lightner and plural widow of Joseph Smith, Jr.
sealed to Joseph Smith, Jr.for eternity and Young for time; remained living with Lightner
22
January 14, 1846(aged 44)
Margaret Alley (1825–1852) (aged 20)
first marriage
2 children
23
January 15, 1846(aged 44)
Olive Andrews (1818–?) (aged 27)
posthumous plural wife ofJoseph Smith, Jr.
sealed to Joseph Smith, Jr.for eternity and Young for time
24
January 15, 1846(aged 44)
Emily Haws (1823–?) (aged 22)
widow of William Whitmarsh
25
January 21, 1846(aged 44)
Martha Bowker.jpg
Martha Bowker (1822–1890) (aged 23)
first marriage
one daughter
26
January 21, 1846(aged 44)
Ellen Rockwood (1829–1866) (aged 16)
first marriage
27
January 28, 1846(aged 44)
Jemima Angel (1803–1869) (aged 42)
divorced from Valentine Young (no relation)
28
January 28, 1846(aged 44)
Abigail Marks (1781–1846) (aged 69)
widow of Asa Works
sealed to Works for eternity and Young for time; Abigail Marks was the mother of Young's first wife, Miriam Works
29
January 28, 1846(aged 44)
Phebe Morton (1776–1854) (aged 59)
widow of James W. Angel
sealed to Angel for eternity and Young for time
30
January 28, 1846(aged 44)
Cynthia Porter (1783–1861) (aged 62)
married to William Weston (unknown if she was widowed, divorced, or separated)
31
January 31, 1846(aged 44)
Mary Eliza Nelson (1812–1885) (aged 33)
widow of John P. Greene
sealed to John P. Greene for eternity and Young for time; divorced by 1850
32
January 31, 1846(aged 44)
Rhoda Richards Smith Young.jpg
Rhoda Richards (1784–1879) (aged 61)
plural widow of Joseph Smith, Jr.
sealed to Joseph Smith, Jr.for eternity and Young for time
33
February 2, 1846(aged 44)
Zina D. H. Young.JPG
Zina Diantha Huntington (1821–1901) (aged 25)
married to Mormon Henry Bailey Jacobs; plural widow of Joseph Smith, Jr.
sealed to Joseph Smith, Jr.for eternity and Young for time; not sealed to Jacobs; lived with Young; 1 child
34
February 3, 1846(aged 44)
Amy Cecilia Cooper (1804–1852) (aged 41)
married to (non-Mormon?) Joseph Aldrich; separated later and he remarried
35
February 3, 1846(aged 44)
Mary Ellen de la Montaigne (1803–1894) (aged 42)
divorced from James Boyd Woodward
divorced 1846-12-13 and re-married Woodward; both Woodward and de la Montaigne were adopted to Brigham Young at Nauvoo
36
February 3, 1846(aged 44)
Julia Foster (1811–1891) (aged 36)
widow of Mormon Jonathan Hampton, who died in Nauvoo in 1844.
Stayed in Illinois when Brigham Young emigrated to Utah in 1847. Young sent for her in 1855, and she came with her children and managed the Lion House.
37
February 3, 1846(aged 44)
Abigail Harback (1790–1849) (aged 55)
previously married to John Calvin Hall (unknown if she was widowed, divorced, or separated)
38
February 3, 1846(aged 44)
Mary Ann Turley (1827–1904) (aged 18)
first marriage
divorced 1851
39
February 6, 1846(aged 44)
Naamah Carter Young.jpg
Naamah Carter (1821–1909) (aged 24)
divorced from John S. Twiss
40
February 6, 1846(aged 44)
Nancy Cressy (1780–1872) (aged 65)
widow of Oliver Walker
41
February 10, 1846(aged 44)
Jane Terry (1819–1847) (aged 26)
widow of George W. Young (no relation)
requested on deathbed to be sealed to Brigham Young; died four days after marriage
42
March 20, 1847(aged 45)
Lucy Bigelow Young.jpg
Lucy Bigelow (1830–1905) (aged 16)
first marriage
3 children
43
March 20, 1846(aged 44)
Mary Jane Bigelow (1827–1868) (aged 19)
first marriage
divorced 1851
44
April 18, 1848(aged 46)
Sarah Malin (1804–1858) (aged 43)
first marriage
later divorced
45
October 3, 1852(aged 51)
Eliza Burgess Young.jpg
Eliza Burgess (1827–1915) (aged 25)
first marriage
1 child
46
December 16, 1852(aged 51)
Mary Oldfield (1793–1875) (aged 59)
widow of Eli Kelsey
47
before 1853 (aged 51)[6]
Eliza Babcock (1828–1868) (aged 24)[6]
first marriage
divorced 1853
48
June 10, 1855(aged 54)
Catherine Reese (1804–1860) (aged 51)
widow of Zephaniah Clawson
49
March 14, 1856(aged 54)
Harriet Barney Young.jpg
Harriet Barney (1830–1911) (aged 25)
divorced from W. H. H. Sagers
1 child
50
January 24, 1863(aged 61)
Amelia Folsom Young.jpg
Amelia Folsom (1838–1910) (aged 24)
first marriage
Rumoured to be Brigham's favorite wife.[7]
51
January 8, 1868(aged 66) [8][9]
Mary V. Cott.jpg
Mary Van Cott (1844–1884) (aged 23)
divorced from James Thornton Cobb (son of wife no. 4) [8]
1 child
52
April 7, 1868(aged 66)
AEYoung.jpg
Ann Eliza Webb(1844–1917) (aged 24)
divorced from James L. Dee
divorced 1875; later became an outspoken critic of polygamy
53
July 3, 1869(aged 68)
Elizabeth Jones (1814–1895) (aged 55)
widow of David T. Lewis andDan Jones
54
May 8, 1870(aged 68)
Lydia Farnsworth (1808–1897) (aged 61)
married to Elijah Mayhew
Sealed to Brigham Young for eternity but remained living with husband Mayhew
55
December 8, 1872(aged 71)
King Hannah T.jpg
Hannah Tapfield (1807–1886) (aged 65)
married to non-Mormon Thomas O. King
Sealed to Brigham Young for eternity but remained living with husband King



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