- REDIRECTTemplate:Test3
Doctrinal foundation of plural marriage |
|
Introduction of plural marriage |
|
|
|
John C. Bennett and Nauvoo polygamy |
|
|
|
Plural marriage in Utah |
|
End of plural marriage |
|
[[../John C. Bennett|John C. Bennett]]
John_C._Bennett_Prior_to_Nauvoo
Brothel_at_Nauvoo
Rise and Fall of Bennett
Sarah Pratt
Bennett and Prostitution
Nancy Rigdon
Sidney Rigdon and Bennett's charges
{{SeeAlso|Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Sent husbands on missions to steal wives|l1=Bennett claimed Joseph sent men on missions to steal their wives.]]
See also Brian Hales' discussion
|
Joseph's first plural marriage after Fanny Alger.
|
|
Joseph Smith made his second proposal to a previously unmarried woman in Nauvoo and the first proposal since his marriage to Louisa Beaman.
|
|
John C. Bennett arrived in Nauvoo in September of 1840 and stayed less than two years. In spite of his relatively brief time living among the Saints, his impact upon the secret expansion of plural marriage was immense.
|
|
One unmarried woman Joseph approached was Nancy Rigdon, the nineteen-year-old daughter of his First Counselor in the First Presidency, Sidney Rigdon. The proposal turned out badly.
|
|
|
|
|
|
William Marks related that Joseph’s conversation denouncing plural marriage occurred “three weeks before his death” or around June 6. Perhaps Joseph had such a change of heart during the first week of June, but this seems unlikely and other parts of Marks’ recollection are implausible.
|