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?

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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Source(s) of the criticism:

Critical sources

Fawn M. Brodie, No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945), 298–299, 308, 345. ( Index of claims ) George D. Smith, Nauvoo Polygamy: "...but we called it celestial marriage" (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2008), . ( Index of claims , (Detailed book review))

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