Clark Braden alleges JSoseph was tarred and feathered in 1832 for being "too intimate" with Marinda Nancy Johnson.
- Type
- Speech / Court Transcript
- Source
- Clark Braden CriticNon-LDS
- Hearsay
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- Reference
Public Discussion of the Issues Between The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and the Church of Christ [Disciples] (Lamoni, IA: Herald House, 1913), 202
- Scribe/Publisher
- Herald Publishing House
- People
- Marinda Nancy Johnson, E. L. Kelley, Brigham Young, Clark Braden, Lyman E. Johnson, Eli Johnson, John Johnson, Joseph Smith, Jr., Orson Hyde
- Audience
- Reading Public
- Transcription
In March, 1832, Smith was stopping at Mr. [John] Johnson's, in Hiram, Ohio, and was mobbed. The mob was led by Eli Johnson, who blamed Smith with being too intimate with his sister Marinda, who afterwards married Orson Hyde. Brigham Young, in after years, twitter Hyde with this fact, and Hyde, on learning its truth, put away his wife, although they had several children. Lyman Johnson, another brother of Marinda Johnson, and a leading Mormon, repeatedly declared that he knew that polygamy was practiced by Smith and others in Kirtland.
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