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What is known about possible children through Joseph Smith's polygamous marriages?
Summary: Is it possible that Joseph Smith fathered children with some of his plural wives, and that he covered up the evidence of pregnancies? Did Joseph Smith have intimate relations with other men’s wives to whom he had been sealed, and did any children result from these unions? DNA testing has so far proven these allegations to be false.
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- Question: Did Joseph Smith father any children through polygamous marriages?
- Question: What did the husband of Sylvia Sessions know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?
- Question: Did Prescindia Buell (or Sarah Pratt, or Mrs. Hyde) not know who was the father of her son?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith father children by polyandrous plural wife Prescindia Buell?
Question: Did Joseph Smith father any children through polygamous marriages?
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- Question: Did Joseph Smith father any children through polygamous marriages?
- Science has eliminated most of the possibilities that had long been rumored to be descendants of Joseph Smith. There are a couple for which DNA can tell us nothing either way and that rest on dubious historical reasoning. Thus critics cannot claim in honesty that Joseph had any children by his polygamous wives.
Question: What did the husband of Sylvia Sessions know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?
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- Question: What did the husband of Sylvia Sessions know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?
- Sylvia was married to Windsor Lyon by Joseph Smith in Nauvoo, and was sealed to Joseph Smith at some point after she was married
- Daughter Josephine was proven not to be a daughter of Joseph Smith, Jr. through DNA analysis
- Sylvia may have considered herself divorced from Windsor after he was excommunicated from the Church
Question: Did Prescindia Buell (or Sarah Pratt, or Mrs. Hyde) not know who was the father of her son?
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- Question: Did Prescindia Buell (or Sarah Pratt, or Mrs. Hyde) not know who was the father of her son?
- The source for this claim is a notoriously unreliable anti-Mormon work. It makes several errors of fact in the very paragraph in which the claim is made
- Is the source reliable?
- The claim
- Errors of fact
- Such an admission would be out of character for a believing Utah woman of the 19th century
- It is difficult for Joseph to have even had contact with her at the proper time to conceive a child
Question: Did Joseph Smith father children by polyandrous plural wife Prescindia Buell?
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- Question: Did Joseph Smith father children by polyandrous plural wife Prescindia Buell?
- All those who have been definitively DNA tested so far—Oliver Buell, Mosiah Hancock, Zebulon Jacobs, Moroni Pratt, and Orrison Smith—have been excluded as children of Joseph Smith
- The geography
- The DNA
- Maybe another Buell child?
To see citations to the critical sources for these claims, [[../CriticalSources|click here]]
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