by Dan Wees | Dec 8, 2019 | Miscellaneous
The marriage vows of Joseph Smith, Jr. and Melissa Lott, recalled in 1892… “You both mutually agree to be each other’s companion, husband and wife, observing the legal rights belonging to this condition, that is, keeping yourselves wholly for each other, and...
by Dan Wees | Dec 8, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“We know a few details about Melissa’s [Lott] marriage to [Joseph] Smith[, Jr.]. In court testimony given later in her life, she gave frank testimony, within the bounds of Victorian language, that there was a sexual component to the relationship. She testified that...
by Dan Wees | Dec 8, 2019 | Miscellaneous
Melissa Lott (Smith-Bernhisel-Willes): 32nd Wife of Joseph Smith Age 19 – Married 20 September 1843 (Joseph Smith, age 37) “On 20 October 1885, a remarkable meeting took place in the small town of Lehi, Utah, northwest of Provo, in Utah County. An imposing, grave man...
by Dan Wees | Dec 8, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“[Joseph Smith, Jr. will] go forth toward the north, and by the power of his word shall the deep begin to give way and the ice melt before the sun. By the keys of the Kingdom shall he lead Israel into the land of Zion while the house of Jacob shouts in the danse and...
by Dan Wees | Dec 8, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“The Prophet Joseph [Smith, Jr.] once in my hearing advanced his opinion that the Ten Tribes were separated from the Earth; or a portion of the Earth was by a miracle broken off, and that the Ten Tribes were taken away with it, and that in the latter days it would be...
by Dan Wees | Dec 8, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“I heard Joseph Smith[, Jr.] preach baptism for the dead; saw him baptizing for the dead in the Mississippi River. I heard him say, ‘Peradventure, the Ten Tribes were not on this globe, but a portion of this earth had cleaved off with them and went flying into space,...
