Eliza R. Snow recalls Joseph telling her an angel with a sword commanded him to practice plural marriage.
Relief Society Minutes, 1873–1881, Glenwood Ward, Sevier Stake, September 28, 1880, 224, Church History Library
[Eliza R. Snow] spoke of Plural marrage said it was a perfect law. said she had her own prejuse about it said she did not know much about it when she was married to Joseph Smith said she did not know if ever she would be owned as a wife spoke of the Angel stand^ing with a drawn sword in his hand and told Joseph if he did not comply with the requirement of heaven that his priesthood should be taken from him she asked the sisters to follow her example and said she was always proud to speak of Plural marriage.