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“When he [Orson Hyde] returned [from his mission], he, in turn, imbibed the teachings of polygamy also, and prepared to extend his kingdom indefinitely. In the mean time it was hinted to him that Smith had had his first wife [Marinda Nancy] sealed to himself in his absence, as a wife for eternity. Inconsistent as it may seem, Hyde was in a furious passion … he did not propose having HIS rights interfered with even by the holy Prophet whose teachings he had so implicitly followed, and he swore that if this was true he would never live with her again. But he did live with her for several years after the exodus from Nauvoo …”

Ann Eliza Young, Wife No. 19 (Hartford, CT: Dustin, Gilman & Co., 1876), 325-326.