Alexander claims that "plurality of wives" was practiced in Kirtland.
- Type
- Manuscript
- Source
- Nancy Alexander LDSDisaffected
- Hearsay
- 3rd HandLate
- Reference
Nancy Alexander, “Mrs. Alexander's Statement,” [1886?], Linda King Newell Collection, Marriott Library, University of Utah, MS 447, bx 11 fd 3
- Scribe/Publisher
- University of Utah
- Audience
- Reading Public
PDF- Transcription
I heard Mrs. Betsy Gilett, say in our house in Kirtland before the Prophet Jo Smith left for Missouri, that he practiced a plurality of wives. There was very much talk among the old women about plurality of wives. . . .
- BHR Staff Commentary
Alexander claims that Joseph "had a revelation to lie with Vienna Jaques, who lived with his family" in Kirtland.
Brian Hales argues that this specific "allegation was. . . .unknown until decades after Joseph Smith's death." See Hales, "Fanny Alger and Joseph Smith's Pre-Nauvoo Reputation," Journal of Mormon History 35:4 (2009): 123-127.
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