The 2013 on-line Church essay ‘Plural Marriage in Kirtland and Nauvoo’…
“… concedes Smith’s marriage to 14-year-old Helen Mar Kimball, but refers to it as happening ‘Several months before her 15th birthday.’ Why the evasive wording? Are they embarrassed to simply say 14?”
Salt Lake City Messenger #124 (Salt Lake City, UT: Utah Lighthouse Ministry, May 2015), 5.