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Doctrinal foundation of plural marriage |
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Introduction of plural marriage |
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Questions about Joseph Smith and plural marriage |
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Notable plural wives of Joseph Smith |
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Plural marriage in Utah |
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End of plural marriage |
Fanny Alger was Joseph Smith's first plural wife
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- Question: What do we know about Joseph Smith's first plural wife Fanny Alger?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith marry Fanny Alger as his first plural wife in 1833?
- Question: How could Joseph and Fanny have been married in 1831 if the sealing power had not yet been restored?
- Question: Did some of Joseph Smith's associates believe that he had an affair with Fanny Alger?
- Question: Did Emma Smith discover her husband Joseph with Fanny Alger in a barn?
- Question: Did Fanny Alger have a child by Joseph Smith?
Question: What do we know about Joseph Smith's first plural wife Fanny Alger?
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- Question: What do we know about Joseph Smith's first plural wife Fanny Alger?
- There are no first-hand accounts of the relationship between Joseph Smith and Fanny Alger
Question: Did Joseph Smith marry Fanny Alger as his first plural wife in 1833?
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- Question: Did Joseph Smith marry Fanny Alger as his first plural wife in 1833?
- Joseph Smith met Fanny Alger in 1833 when she was a house-assistant to Emma
- Joseph said that the "ancient order of plural marriage" was to again be practiced at the time that Fanny was living with his family
- Joseph asked the brother-in-law of Fanny's father to make the request of Fanny's father, after which a marriage ceremony was performed
Question: How could Joseph and Fanny have been married in 1831 if the sealing power had not yet been restored?
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- Question: How could Joseph and Fanny have been married in 1831 if the sealing power had not yet been restored?
- There is historical evidence that Joseph Smith knew as early as 1831 that plural marriage would be restored
- Joseph and Fanny's marriage was a plural marriage, not an eternal marriage
Question: Did some of Joseph Smith's associates believe that he had an affair with Fanny Alger?
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- Question: Did some of Joseph Smith's associates believe that he had an affair with Fanny Alger?
- Oliver Cowdery perceived the relationship between Joseph and Fanny as a "dirty, nasty, filthy affair"
- Even hostile accounts of the relationship between Joseph and Fanny report a marriage or sealing
Question: Did Emma Smith discover her husband Joseph with Fanny Alger in a barn?
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- Question: Did Emma Smith discover her husband Joseph with Fanny Alger in a barn?
- William McLellin claimed to have heard a story that Fanny and Joseph were in the barn and Emma had observed them
- Ann Eliza Webb, who was born 11 years after Joseph's marriage to Fanny, claimed that Emma threw Fanny out of the house
Question: Did Fanny Alger have a child by Joseph Smith?
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- Question: Did Fanny Alger have a child by Joseph Smith?
- A suggestion that Fanny was pregnant by Joseph surfaced in an 1886 anti-Mormon book with a claim that Emma "drove" Fanny out of the house
- Fawn Brodie claimed that Fanny's son Orrison was the son of Joseph Smith, but this was disproven by DNA research
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