Joseph Smith, Jr.

I should have posted the link to the Joseph Smith comment. Here it is:

Joseph Smith, Jr., Prophet

Vance, do you think that the addition of all of those wives to this profile is the result of vandalism?

well vance,
i went and looked at the tree, think this was a case of duplicates plus ...but nope you are right...most of them are not the same ( maybe three or so can be merged) wow that is a mess over there. ...connected to the tuttle and the snow tree. what i can do is agree that there was only one marriage.
see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith,_Jr.#Family_and_descendants for the whole story that may help someone fix and configure that area. if i can be of help, let me know ^U^

david i dont think its vandalism...just people with the wrong information or the wrong person. that is a lot of people that are conspiring all at once ^U^
29 people??!! agreeing to mess up a tree. na but i will specifically contact the ones i know and see if they can help vance.

http://www.wivesofjosephsmith.org/

The following list was retrieved from the FamilySearch Center located in the Joseph Smith memorial building on June 10, 1994.
Wife list, and the years they married below...

1. Louisa Beaman
2. Zina Diantha Huntington
3. Prescendia Lathrop Huntington
4. Desdemona W. Fullmer
5. Mary Elizabeth Rollins (Lightner)
6. Patty Bartlett (Sessions)
7. Marinda Nancy Johnson (Hyde)
8. Eliza Roxcy Snow
9. Sarah Ann Whitney
10. Martha McBride (Knight)
11. Almera Woodard Johnson
12. Ruth D. Vose (Sayers)
13. Eliza Partridge
14. Helen Mar Kimball
15. Lucy Walker
16. Emily Partridge
17. Sarah Lawrence
18. Rhoda Richards
19. Melissa Lott
20. Fanny Young (Murray)

1. Apr 5, 1841
2. Oct 27, 1841
3. Dec 11, 1841
4. 1842
5. Jan 17, 1842
6. Mar 9, 1842
7. Apr 1842
8. Jun 29, 1842
9. Jul 27, 1842
10. Aug [3] 1842
11. Apr 1843
12. Feb 1843
13. Mar 8, 1843
14. May 1843
15. May 1, 1843
16. May 11, 1843
17. May 11, 1843
18. Jun 12, 1843
19. Sep 20, 1843
20. Nov 2, 1843

very "lucky" man...pun intended ^U^

and he died just a few short months after marrying #20. I'm willing to place a bet on what killed him...

Well, he was actually assassinated. Mrs. Emma Hale Smith denied vehemently the claim that he ever took upon himself other wives. His son, a founder of the Reorganized Church of LDS, questioned his mother closely about the reports of his multi-marriages and he, too, dened that his father was ever married to anyone other than his mother. I would be interested to know why the Family Search Center maintains such a long list. This should be a research question that would intrigue a member of the Church of the LDS. My interest is that I am a 10th cousin to Joseph Smith and, inasmuch as he had children only with Emma Hale, I am not interested in the other alleged marriages. I do care about historical accuracy, however.

well hmmm, this does present a problem. what if..we merge the duplicates, and the other women are put in the "about me section" with a link to their profiles. i really dont know how to handle the multiple marriages. it really makes that area of the tree a mess.... but accuracy is important.
(and i can only imagine that assassination plot.)

@Kathleen, when I read neutral stories about Joseph Smith, many of the wives had husbands away on missions or they had husbands who just did not know. Legally, he was not married to these women. Spiritually they were.

Also it was written that Emma Hale, his legal wife, disliked his "plural wivery" and would deny the marriages, because there was only 1 LEGAL marriage. After his death, many of the women married Brigham Young and Heber Kimball. Their stories as polygamists seems to be more accepted than that of Joseph Smith Jr.'s.

well i can see why she would. but then how do we present it so it doesnt look so crazy?

No kids from any of the "spiritual" wives? What are the odds?

lol..i..could..say..something