“Hannah Ells Smith, a wife of the Prophet [Joseph Smith], boarded at his [John Benbow’s] house two months during the summer of the same year [1843]; and the said Hannah E. Smith also lived at his [Benbow’s] house several months in 1844, after the Prophet’s death. And further, that President Smith frequently visited his wife Hannah at his (J.B.’s) house.”

John Benbow, in Todd Compton’s In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith (Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 23 December 2015), 537.