by Dan Wees | May 15, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“Orson Hyde and W.W. Phelps turned against Joseph in Missouri, and forsook him in time of peril and danger, and even testified against him in the courts … ” They asked to be reinstated, and “with tears he moved that we would forgive them and receive...
by Dan Wees | May 14, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“[I]f R.[Richards] should take a notion to H.’s [Hyde’s] wife [Nancy] in his absence, all that is necessary to be done is to be sealed. No harm done, no adultery committed; only taking a little advantage of rights of priesthood. And after R. has gone the round of...
by Dan Wees | May 13, 2019 | Miscellaneous
MARINDA NANCY JOHNSON-HYDE-SMITH: 11th wife of Joseph Smith, Jr. Age 27 – Married April 1842 (Joseph Smith, age 36). Some historians surmise that Marinda may have ‘technically’ been Joseph Smith’s second wife, although there does not seem to be enough evidence to...
by Dan Wees | May 12, 2019 | Miscellaneous
DELCINA DIADAMIA JOHNSON-SHERMAN-SMITH-BABBITT: 14th wife of Joseph Smith, Jr. Age 37 – Married before July 1842 (Joseph Smith, age 36). Delcina is the older sister of Almera Johnson, who became Joseph Smith’s 22nd wife in 1843. On 16 January 1829 Delcina married...
by Dan Wees | May 11, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“[I]s it more probable that nature should go out of her course, or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course; but we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time; it is,...
by Dan Wees | May 10, 2019 | Miscellaneous
Being able to step outside of the world of accepting Joseph Smith as a bona fide prophet of God, it compels us to figure out how the Book of Mormon came into being. Desperation, it would seem, is the most likely answer to this question. Consider these nine points from...
