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==Question: How many Mormon women refused offers of plural marriage?==
 
It is difficult to know how many women refused plural marriage&mdash;if they said nothing, then we may have no way of knowing if they refused.  Some cited in LDS sources include:
 
* Sarah Granger Kimball
 
* Rachel Ivins (Grant)
 
* Lydia Moon
 
* Cordelia C. Morley (Cox)
 
* Esther M. Johnson
 
* Nancy Rigdon - daughter of Sidney Rigdon
 
* Sarah Pratt - wife of Orson Pratt<ref>{{Book:Hales:JS Polygamy 2|pages=121n26. See also 1:274–275; 2:31&ndash;32, 120–121; 3:230&ndash;234}}</ref>
 
 
 
Anti-Mormon sources list several other possibilities, but it is hard to know how far to trust them.  As Compton notes, "Some...are fairly well documented; others are sensationalist and badly documented."  These include:
 
 
 
* Jane Silverthorne (Law) - wife of William Law
 
* Leonora Cannon (Taylor) - wife of John Taylor
 
* Melissa Schindle
 
* Emeline White
 
* Mrs. Robert Foster
 
* Pamela Michael
 
* Mrs. Caroline Grant Smith
 
* Lucy Smith Milligan (or Miliken)
 
* Lavina Smith
 
* Miss Marks - daughter of William Marks
 
* Athalia Rigdon<ref>{{Book:Compton:ISL|start=634&ndash;635}}  We have here omitted [[Polygamy_book/Early_womanizer#Eliza_Winters|Eliza Winters]], a claim not supportable by the evidence.</ref>
 
* [[Polygamy_book/Early_womanizer|Eliza Winters]]
 
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[[es:Pregunta: ¿Cuántas mujeres mormones rechazaron ofertas de matrimonio plural?]]
 
[[es:Pregunta: ¿Cuántas mujeres mormones rechazaron ofertas de matrimonio plural?]]
 
[[de:Frage: Gab es Frauen unter den Mormonen, die Joseph Smith als Ehemann abgelehnt haben?]]
 
[[de:Frage: Gab es Frauen unter den Mormonen, die Joseph Smith als Ehemann abgelehnt haben?]]
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