Title :
Years later, in the summer
Year :
1842, 1795, 1850, 1888
POI :
Ely,Lake,Smith,Whitney,Deming,Page,Rigdon,Spalding,Tuttle
City :
Salt Lake City
Scripture Reference :
Content :
Years later, in the summer of 1842, the Whitneys would give their daughter, Sarah Ann, to the prophet as a plural wife. She was the first woman, in this dispensation, who was given in plural marriage by and with the consent of both parents. B.H. Roberts, ed., History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City, 9146), VII, p. 557-558Ultimately, Smith would take 33 secret wives, and justify these marriages as required of him by God. Sarah Ann Whitne
Notes :
Newel K. Whitney died at age 55. He appears to have had at least 8 wives at his death http://wiki.whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/Family:Whitney,_Newel_Kimball_(1795-1850) Whitneys second polygamist wife, Olive Maria Bishop, allegedly claimed in a deathbed statement that her husband (Newell K. Whitney) died by poisoning at the hands of his first wife Elizabeth Ann. Footnote 41 on page 59 of The Spalding Engima by Cowdrey et al. (2018), citing Arthur B. Demings book Naked Truths about Mormonism (1888), p. 22.Samuel F. Whitney to Arthur Deming: I was informed by a creditable party while last in Salt Lake City that Bishop N. K. Whitney's second wife confessed on her death bed to Bishop Tuttle, of the Episcopal Church, that Bishop Whitney's first wife gave him poison in a whisky sling she made for him. The first time it made him very sick and the next evening she gave him another, which caused his death. She made three each time, for herself and the second wifewithout poison. http://sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/CA/natruths.htm
Years later, in the summer
Year :
1842, 1795, 1850, 1888
POI :
Ely,Lake,Smith,Whitney,Deming,Page,Rigdon,Spalding,Tuttle
City :
Salt Lake City
Scripture Reference :
Content :
Years later, in the summer of 1842, the Whitneys would give their daughter, Sarah Ann, to the prophet as a plural wife. She was the first woman, in this dispensation, who was given in plural marriage by and with the consent of both parents. B.H. Roberts, ed., History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City, 9146), VII, p. 557-558Ultimately, Smith would take 33 secret wives, and justify these marriages as required of him by God. Sarah Ann Whitne
Notes :
Newel K. Whitney died at age 55. He appears to have had at least 8 wives at his death http://wiki.whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/Family:Whitney,_Newel_Kimball_(1795-1850) Whitneys second polygamist wife, Olive Maria Bishop, allegedly claimed in a deathbed statement that her husband (Newell K. Whitney) died by poisoning at the hands of his first wife Elizabeth Ann. Footnote 41 on page 59 of The Spalding Engima by Cowdrey et al. (2018), citing Arthur B. Demings book Naked Truths about Mormonism (1888), p. 22.Samuel F. Whitney to Arthur Deming: I was informed by a creditable party while last in Salt Lake City that Bishop N. K. Whitney's second wife confessed on her death bed to Bishop Tuttle, of the Episcopal Church, that Bishop Whitney's first wife gave him poison in a whisky sling she made for him. The first time it made him very sick and the next evening she gave him another, which caused his death. She made three each time, for herself and the second wifewithout poison. http://sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/CA/natruths.htm