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Response to "For my Wife and Children" ("Letter to my Wife"): Chapter 7 - Polygamy
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Response to claims made in "For my Wife and Children" ("Letter to my Wife"): Chapter 7 - Polygamy
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Response to claim: "On April 6, 1840, Orson was sent on a 3 year mission to Jerusalem. Shortly after his departure, Joseph married his wife Nancy Marinda Johnson-Hyde while Orson was gone"
The author(s) of "For my Wife and Children" ("Letter to my Wife") make(s) the following claim:
On April 6, 1840, Orson was sent on a 3 year mission to Jerusalem. Shortly after his departure, Joseph married his wife Nancy Marinda Johnson-Hyde while Orson was gone. In Joseph Smith’s journal, in a list of marriages he wrote “Apr 42 Marinda Johnson to Joseph Smith.” In 1858 Orson and Marinda separated.
FAIR's Response
Fact checking results: The author has stated erroneous information or misinterpreted their sources
The sealing did not occur "short after his departure." Orson had been gone at least one year prior to the sealing. The Hydes divorced in 1870: "The precise reasons for the divorce are not known, but it appears that Orson was giving most of his attention to his younger wives at this time." [1] However, Marinda was sealed to Orson following Joseph's death. [2]
Question: Was Apostle Orson Hyde sent on a mission to dedicate Israel so that Joseph Smith could secretly marry his wife, Marinda Hyde, while he was away?
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- Question: Was Apostle Orson Hyde sent on a mission to dedicate Israel so that Joseph Smith could secretly marry his wife, Marinda Hyde, while he was away?
- Orson was involved briefly with apostasy at Far West in the fall of 1838, but had returned to the Church by March 1839
- If the earlier sealing date is correct, Orson had been on his mission for about a year before the sealing
- The Hydes divorced in 1870, but Marinda was sealed to Orson following Joseph's death
- Marinda's children Orson W. Hyde and Frank Henry Hyde