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Revision as of 21:13, 13 April 2017
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Contents
- 1 Children of Joseph Smith's polygamous marriages
- 2 Joseph Smith and children through plural marriage
- 2.1 Question: What did the husband of Sylvia Sessions know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?
- 2.2 Question: Did Prescindia Buell (or Sarah Pratt, or Mrs. Hyde) not know who was the father of her son?
- 2.3 Question: Did Joseph Smith father children by polyandrous plural wife Prescindia Buell?
Children of Joseph Smith's polygamous marriages
- 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?
Joseph Smith and children through plural marriage
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- Question: Can you summarize what we know about whether or not Joseph Smith fathered any children by his plural wives?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith father any children through polygamous marriages?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith produce any children by his plural wives?: The case for children
- Question: Did Joseph Smith produce any children by his plural wives? The case against children
- 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: What is the current state of the evidence for proving or disproving that Joseph Smith had children by his plural wives?
- Question: Was the only purpose of polygamy to "multiply and replenish the earth" and "bear the souls of men"?
- Question: If the only purpose of polygamy was to "raise up seed," then why did Joseph not have children by his plural 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?