David O. McKay maintains women have choice in eternal partners.

Date
May 8, 1959
Type
Personal Journal / Diary
Source
David O. McKay
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reprint
Reference

David O. McKay Diary, May 8, 1959, in Devery S. Anderson, Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2011), 311-312

Scribe/Publisher
Signature Books
People
Axel Olsen, David O. McKay
Audience
N/A
Transcription

I reviewed the case of Axel Olson, who married a young girl, 16 years of age. He was killed in Ogden Canyon shortly thereafter. She was a mother and a widow by the time she was seventeen years old. Later a man married her. He was not a member of the Church at the time. They had 12 or 13 children, all of whom were baptized in the Church and finally he, the husband, was baptized. The case was presented to President Joseph F. Smith when the mother desired to be sealed to her husband who was the father of the 12 or 13 children. I said that President Smith informed me that in this Church a woman has her choice; if she wants him (the father of the 12 or 13 children) she may have him, but she cannot take Axel's child from him, but she may be sealed to the second husband, and may have the children of the second husband sealed to them. They went to the Temple and had the 12 or 13 children sealed to them.

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