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Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Children of polygamous marriages/Presendia Buell
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Joseph Smith and rumored children by polyandrous plural wife Prescindia Buell
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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?
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