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| | Temple (Mormonism) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Latter Day Saint movement was conceived as a restoration of practices believed to have been lost in a Great Apostasy from the true religion of Jesus Christ. | | | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also called the LDS Church) is by far the largest denomination of the Latter Day Saint movement and it has been by far the most prolific builder of temples. | | | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite) began to construct a temple at their headquarters in Voree, Wisconsin in the mid-1840s. |
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http://www.hartselle.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/Temple_(Mormonism)
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| | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - TheoWiki |
| | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, widely known as the LDS Church and the Mormon Church, is the largest and most well-known denomination resulting from the Latter Day Saint Movement, a form of Christian Restorationism. | | | Church members — known as Latter-day Saints — believe their faith to be the divinely appointed restoration of the Church established by Jesus Christ as depicted in the New Testament. | | | Latter-day Saints are encouraged by Church leaders and the LDS culture to develop their faith through study, prayer, service, and obedience to God's commandments. |
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http://theowiki.com/index.php/Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints
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| | Mormon Answers: Love, Dating, and Marriage for Mormons |
| | Marriage is an ordinance bringing change in relationships and is thus an ordinance for this mortal world that must be performed before we enter into the eternal realms in the presence of the Father. | | | Marriage, baptism, and some other covenants are handled on earth, either by the living themselves or by the living vicariously for the deceased, and sources of confusion will need to be ironed out and resolved with God's help before we enter into Eternal Life in His presence. | | | In the Doctrine and Covenants, eternal marriage is called the new and everlasting covenant. |
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http://www.jefflindsay.com/LDSFAQ/love.shtml
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| | They admit that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the only church on the earth at the present time that is recognized by God, but they allege that the Church began to stumble in its divine mission when the practice of polygamy was suspended by Church edict in 1890. | | | In the beginning the principle of plural marriage was declared to be "the most holy principle ever revealed to man." It was zealously proclaimed that the principle would never be given up, and that if it were the Church would be in an apostate condition. | | | Composed of mainly a group of dissenters from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Fundamentalism" is a heterogeneous and fractured movement. |
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http://www.mormonfundamentalism.com/IPSindex.htm
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| | Do Latter-day Saints Believe in the Bible and Biblical Christianity? |
| | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints accepts and honors the Bible as the word of God (See LDS Belief in the Bible). | | | Even plural marriage (see DandC 132) and the sharing of property in a united order, which were practiced at one time in Mormon history as instructed by God (see DandC 42; 51; 83; 104), find obvious parallels in the Bible (see Genesis 16:1-3; Deuteronomy 21:15; Acts 2:44). | | | Latter-day Saints believe in God the Eternal Father, and in his Son Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost (see Articles of Faith 1:1). |
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http://www.lightplanet.com/mormons/basic/bible/farms_bible.htm
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| | Latter-day Saint Glossary and Vocabulary |
| | Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints - A church that arose in response to the schism that followed the June 27, 1844, murder of Joseph Smith. | | | marriage, eternal - The doctrine that the bonds of marriage may continue into the eternities if a man and a woman are sealed in a temple and continue faithful to their covenants. | | | Mormonism, Mormons - Unofficial terms for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its members; members prefer to use the official name of the Church and to be referred to as Latter-day Saints. |
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http://www.lightplanet.com/mormons/daily/vocabulary_eom.htm
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| | Book Review-Arrington & Bitton-The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-Day Saints |
| | Arrington and Bitton are both practicing and participating members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; however, they attempt to remain objective in their study. | | | Latter-day Saints also contribute a lot of money to their church, for instance in the form of tithes they donate ten percent of their income. | | | The major concept of the book is to explain the rise of the Mormon religion. |
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http://crab.rutgers.edu/~banner/arrington.html
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| | Do Latter-day Saints Belong to a Cult? Issues of the Trinity, the Bible, Jesus Christ, God, and Modern Christianity |
| | Latter-day Saints are routinely said to be a cult for not accepting some doctrines from the Nicene Creed, the Athanasian Creed (or click here), and other creeds from the fourth century and beyond (e.g., the Westminster Confession of Faith from 1646, used by Presbyterians). | | | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, restored upon the earth as part of God's prophesied "restitution of all things" (Acts 3:19) is once again lead by revelation to apostles and prophets, and is characterized by new volumes of scripture, just like in the original Church of Jesus Christ before the era of apostasy. | | | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the restored Church of Jesus Christ upon the earth, led by Christ through modern revelation. |
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http://www.jefflindsay.com/LDSFAQ/FQ_cult.shtml
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| | Geddick's Paper |
| | The Saints fled to Illinois, where Joseph Smith, the first president and prophet of the LDS church, was later murdered while in the custody of the local militia. | | | The East German Saints were instructed that the future activities of the church in East Germany depended on their returning at the conclusion of the conference; remarkably, all did. | | | The Saints were subsequently driven from Illinois as well, after which they journeyed a thousand miles west to what is now the state of Utah, in search of a place where they could practice their religion in peace. |
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http://www.aliveonline.com/ldspapers/geddicks.htm
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| | Satanic Symbols |
| | Easter is a day that is honored by nearly all of contemporary Christianity and is used to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. | | | And they believe, while "baptism is the gate to the celestial kingdom, celestial (eternal or temple) marriage is the gate to an exaltation in the highest heaven within the celestial world" (Mormon Doctrine, p.118). | | | The truth is that the forty days of Lent, eggs, rabbits, hot cross buns and the Easter ham have everything to do with the ancient pagan religion of Mystery Babylon. |
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http://www.helpingmormons.org/occult_symbols.htm
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| | These were practices that the LDS church reluctantly renounced in 1890. | | | In the cultural model of church standards, marriage is a temple ordinance that seals a husband and wife to each other for time and eternity under priesthood authority. | | | Spiritual development is conceived as beginning in the preexistence, where the spirit self as a member of the hosts of heaven participated in what the LDS church calls the council in heaven. |
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http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/Zine/latterdaysaint.htm
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| | The Changing World of Mormonism, Chapter 9 (Part 2), Plural Marriage: Sorrows of Polygamy, by Jerald and Sandra Tanner, ... |
| | In other words, some of the Saints have said, and believe that a man with one wife, sealed to him by the authority of the Priesthood for time and eternity, will receive an exaltation as great and glorious, if he is faithful, as he possibly could with more than one. | | | Plural marriage was a common practice among God's chosen people. | | | A belief in the doctrine of a plurality of wives caused the persecution of Jesus, and his followers. |
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http://www.xmission.com/~country/chngwrld/chap9b.htm
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| | Book Review-In Sacred Loneliness: the plural wives of Joseph Smith by Todd Compton |
| | It is clear from the historical accounts that those who were approached about plural marriage to Joseph Smith were shocked to the core of their being, and many initially refused his advances outright. | | | Her sealing to Smith is also significant in its demonstration of a classic dynastic marriage between Smith and an important church family, a marriage that assured the Whitneys eternal blessings and an important connection to the Mormon prophet in this life (p. | | | On the one hand, it was more than secular, monogamous marriage — it was the new and everlasting covenant, having eternal significance
On the other hand, day-to-day practical polygamous living, for many women, was less than monogamous marriage — it was a social system that simply did not work in nineteenth-century America. |
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http://www.irr.org/mit/sacredlon.html
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| | The First International Christian Polygamist (FICP): The Latter-day Saint Corner - For Mormon Visitors to FICP: 2. ... |
| | The living of plural marriage is therefore inseparably connected to the whole Mormon Priesthood system. | | | Now, it is true, that if people join a religious community of their own free will, and that community has rules and regulations about marriage to which they voluntarily subscribe, then that is their responsibility too. | | | "When it comes to the subject of plural marriage, the majority of Mormons know little more than Joseph Smith introduced it to the Church of the Firstborn during the Nauvoo period and that his first wife, Emma, was not pleased about the idea. |
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http://www.nccg.org/fecpp/LDS02-Ideas.html
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| | 2002 FAIR Conference |
| | She is the adopted daughter of Darius Gray, President of The Genesis Group, an official auxillary of the Church for black LDS and their family and friends. | | | Renee Olson used to be a practicing anti-Mormon who focused her attacks on the area of the relationship of blacks and the LDS Church. | | | He is a convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and has served in numerous positions, including a full-time mission in France and Switzerland and stake and district missions in Utah and Israel. |
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http://www.fairlds.org/conf02b.html
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| | HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS (MORMONS) |
| | Another group within the church created the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, now known as the Community of Christ. | | | In 1890, the Church received a revelation from God that changed church beliefs and practices. | | | They received a revelation from God that a reluctant Brigham Young (1801-1877) should be the second president of the church. |
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http://www.religioustolerance.org/lds_hist.htm
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| | -- Beliefnet.com |
| | Newell notes that polygamy was "very limited," toeing the current party line of an LDS Church that has recently claimed that plural marriage was practiced by a tiny fraction of the Saints, when many historians place the number at up to 40%. | | | If other Christians can do no right in Newell's version of history, Mormons can do no wrong; his story of Mormon persecutions is so relentlessly one-sided that it becomes as tiresome as the ubiquitous corn pone on the westward trek. | | | A faultless, God-fearing Joseph Smith is unjustly pursued and murdered by a cruel, fanatical mob. |
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http://www.beliefnet.com/story/21/story_2138_2.html
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| | Orson Hyde - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Categories: Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | | | When Oliver Cowdery and other LDS missionaries preached in Kirtland in late 1830, Hyde spoke publicly against the "Mormon Bible." However, when his former minister, Sidney Rigdon joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Hyde investigated the claims of the missionaries, and was baptized by Rigdon on October 30, 1831. | | | Orson Hyde (January 8, 1805 – November 28, 1878) was a leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and an original member of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles. |
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http://www.hackettstown.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/Orson_Hyde
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| | Feature Films with Major Latter-day Saint (LDS) Characters |
| | Fascinating fly-on-the-wall documentary (without narration) that captures a controversy that arose in Utah County, Utah, where approximately 90% of the population are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. | | | Note that some of the Latter-day Saint characters listed here (such as Butch Cassidy) were not active church-goers as adults. | | | There are multiple Latter-day Saint references, including a lengthy quotation from the Book of Mormon. |
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http://www.ldsfilm.com/lds_chars.html
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| | Why Did the Church Abandon Polygamy? |
| | Doctrine of Plural Marriage), the Lord did not want the church impaired by continuing it's practice. | | | Following a vision showing him that continuing plural marriage endangered the temples and the mission of the Church, not just statehood, President Wilford Woodruff issued | | | By finding fault with Latter-day Saints, they also find fault with Jesus. |
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http://www.lightplanet.com/mormons/response/qa/plural_revelation.htm
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| | Latter-day Saint Liberation Front: My Least-Favorite Famous Talk, or, Adventures in Sustaining the (Potential) Prophet |
| | Serenity Valley suggests that this might be because people who read this quote tend to leave the church; it’s also possible that people who are in the process of leaving find that this quote crystallizes issues that already trouble them. | | | Indeed, it could be argued that Sunday classes are not the place to face difficult issues or complex challenges; they are a place for reaffirming the faith of the weakest Saints. | | | The Book of Mormon and the LDS Church |
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http://ldsliberationfront.blogs.com/ldslf/2005/05/my_leastfavorit.html
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| | D. Michael Quinn responds to Jerald and Sandra Tanner |
| | I do not wish any Latter-day Saint in this world, nor in heaven, to be satisfied with anything I do, unless the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, the spirit of revelation, makes them satisfied.... | | | How often has it been taught that if you depend entirely upon the voice, judgment, and sagacity of those appointed to lead you, and neglect to enjoy the Spirit for yourselves, how easily you may be led into error, and finally be cast off to the left hand? | | | How do you know but I am teaching false doctrine? |
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http://www.lds-mormon.com/mo2.shtml
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| | History of the Church : Late Nineteenth Century, 1878–98: LDSFAQ |
| | The Manifesto of 1890 was a proclamation by Church President Wilford Woodruff that the Church had discontinued plural marriage. | | | Antipolygamy legislation had disincorporated the Church and confiscated its properties. | | | President Woodruff explained that he acted under the Lord's direction in ending plural marriage, and had God not revealed this to him he would have let the temples be taken and let himself and every other Latter-day Saint man go to prison. |
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http://ldsfaq.byu.edu/view.asp?q=317
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| | Latter-Day Saints Questions Answers Testimony |
| | NOTE: This site is not an official resource for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. | | | Within the forum us discussion about: Latter Day Saints Democrats, LDS Resources, LDS Community, Plural Marriage, Excommunicated and Disfellowshipped Members, Young Men, Sunday School, Relief Society, Young Women, Primary, Nursery, CTR Resources. | | | Latter-Day Saints - Religion - Mormon Doctrine - Only Positive Interests and Learning |
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http://www.bordeglobal.com/forum/index3.html
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| | Joseph Fielding Smith Institute of Latter-day Saint History |
| | Arrington, Leonard J. "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints." In Encyclopedia Britannica, 1986 Year Book, s.v. | | | Arrington, Leonard J. "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints." In Encyclopedia Britannica, 1987 Year Book, s.v. | | | Arrington, Leonard J. "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints." In Encyclopedia Britannica, 1980 Book of the Year, s.v. "Religion." |
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http://smithinstitute.byu.edu/aboutus/ref_works.asp
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| | Mormonism Research Ministry - Articles - Marriage & Family |
| | Eternal Increase: The LDS Doctrine of Celestial Procreation | | | Celestial marriage and family relationships in Mormonism go beyond this lifetime. | | | The Polygamy Dilemma - Is Plural Marriage a Dead Issue in Mormonism? |
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http://www.mrm.org/articles/marriage_family
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| | Mormonism Research Ministry - Articles - The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith |
| | In his essay titled The Coming of the Manifesto, Mormon writer Kenneth Godfrey notes "Andrew Jenson, one of the most revered of the Latter-day Saint historians, officially acknowledged that Joseph Smith had taken twenty-seven wives before his death. | | | Fawn Brodie lists forty-eight women allegedly sealed to the Prophet and at least one other writer believes he can document over sixty plural wives taken by the Mormon leader while he was alive." (Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol..5, No.3, p.12). | | | Smith's marriage to Louis Beaman is considered by some to be his first official plural marriage since it is the first for which there is a witness and a reliable record. |
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http://www.mrm.org/multimedia/text/plural-wives.html
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| | History of the Church : Early Utah Era, 1847–77: LDSFAQ |
| | In 1852, Church leaders publicly announced the practice of plural marriage as a doctrine and practice of the Church. | | | There were no federal or territorial laws against polygamy at this time, and Latter-day Saints believed that polygamy was protected by constitutional guarantees of religious freedom. | | | The Saints established a unified economic and political order, many settlements being almost entirely communal. |
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http://ldsfaq.byu.edu/view.asp?q=84
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| | Careful examination of the LDS Church's changing position on political involvement, plural marriage, business relations, administrative reorganization, doctrinal redefinition and missionary work. | | | The 1890's and the Challenge to the Mormon World View | | | Mormonism in Transition: A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930 |
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http://www.mission2mormons.org/bk109.html
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| | Gutzon Borglum Biography |
| | Born to the second wife of a Danish Latter-day Saint (LDS; see also Mormon) who practiced Plural Marriage in Idaho Territory, Gutzon Borglum was raised in California and trained in Paris, at the Académie Julian, where he came to know Auguste Rodin and was influenced by Rodin's dynamic impressionistic light-catching surfaces. | | | Lee's head was unveiled on Lee's birth day January 19, 1924, to a large crowd, but soon thereafter Borglum was increasingly at odds with the officials of the Association. | | | At Stone Mountain he developed sympathetic connections with the reorganized Ku Klux Klan, who were major financial backers for the monument, but his domineering, perfectionist, irascible, authoritarian manner brought tensions to such a point that in March 1925 Borglum smashed his clay and plaster models and exited Georgia permanently. |
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http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Borglum_Gutzon.html
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| | An Intimate Chronicle: The Journals of William Clayton |
| | William Clayton is best remembered today for his hymns, especially "Come, Come Ye Saints." But as one of the earliest Latter-day Saint scribes, he made intellectual as well as artistic contributions to his church, and his records have been silently incorporated into official Mormon scripture and history. | | | He caught his first plural wife rendezvousing with her former fiancé; later, when she became pregnant, her mother--his unaware mother-in-law--was so overwrought that she attempted suicide. | | | Of equal significance are his personal impressions of day-to-day activities, which describe a social and religious world largely unfamiliar to modern readers. |
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http://www.signaturebooks.com/clayton.htm
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| | Two noted features of nineteenth-century Mormonism were highly visible at Monroe-plural marriage and the communal life of the United Order. | | | As a result of this early exploration, a small community named Fort Alma was founded on the east side of the Sevier River. | | | MONROE In the summer of 1863, Latter-day Saint apostle George A. Smith called upon George Washington Bean to take a small company of men and explore the valley of the Sevier River in south-central Utah. |
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http://www.uen.org/ucme/media/text/ta000625.txt
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| | Joseph Smith's Plural Wives |
| | became the second General Relief Society president of the Latter-day Saint church. | | | Plural wife of Joseph Smith and later Amasa Lyman. | | | The sister of Apostle Willard Richards, Joseph Smith's close friend, she married Joseph on June 12, 1843, at age fifty-eight. |
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http://www.ldshistory.net/dk/dk3.html
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