Posted on 02/16/2011 11:17:28 AM PST by dragonblustar
Benjamin Johnson, a close friend of Joseph Smith, described Fanny as, “varry nice and comly, [to whom] everyone Seemed partial for the ameability of her character.” She is generally considered the first plural wife of Joseph Smith. Although undocumented, the marriage of Fanny and Joseph most likely took place in Kirtland, Ohio sometime in 1833. She would have been sixteen years old. At the time, Fanny was living in the Smith home, perhaps helping Emma with house work and the children.
Ann Eliza Webb recalls, “Mrs. Smith had an adopted daughter, a very pretty, pleasing young girl, about seventeen years old. She was extremely fond of her; no mother could be more devoted, and their affection for each other was a constant object of remark, so absorbing and genuine did it seem”.
Joseph kept his marriage to Fanny out of the view of the public, and his wife Emma.
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Is there any active Mormon willing to admit Joseph Smith was an adulterer?
How Mohammedesque... peace be upon him.
IB4PD
Making a cuppa Tea and lurking...
Good question. One for which I doubt we will get an answer.
The age of 16 doesn’t bother me, as long as the young lady was willing. Today a 16 year old can marry if she is an emancipated minor or if her parents give permission. Presumably, a minor’s parents can discern whether she is mature enough to be married or is being coerced in some way.
Her position as an orphan in the home, with Smith her supposed father, would make me disallow the marriage if I were a judge or whatever.
The lengths Smith went to legitimize his lusts were extraordinary.
Pretty darn sleazy if you ask me. Reminds me of an acquaintance from a few years back. The night before he was to be sealed in the temple “for time and all eternity”, he was discovered to have been taking “certain liberties” with the “varry nice and comly” foreign exchange student staying at their home.
I’m tellin, you, time ended rather smartly for him and his Temple-Mormon facade. I’m sure he still has burns from the garments being ripped off of him.
Do know that he was seen moonlighting in Home Depot. I wonder if child support ends if your ex-kids get sealed to another Mormon Priest and his family?
It would be difficult to convince me that you are “in this world but not of this world” when your primary objective seems to be nailing anything in a skirt.
As Dillinger remarked “That which is not nailed down is mine, that which I can pry up is not nailed down.”
Not really. Even in as early as the 1530’s girls in their teens were referred to as “fresh young damsels”. The people that married off their children at exceedingly young ages were mostly royalty or nobility. They wouldn’t cohabitate until they were much older. It wasn’t until women were about 30 that they were considered old.
The life expectancy for men was their 60’s I believe, but for women it was much lower, mainly due to issues involving childbirth.
The man was such an obvious fraud it breaks my heart to see how many follow him. I can understand a handful of kooks, but there are so many of his followers. Generally good and decent people, in my experience, but, they just seem to have a blind spot when confronted with the obvious.
“... taking certain liberties with the varry nice and comly foreign exchange student”.
Too funny!!
Mormonism and its Profit, Joe’s Myth, have so many holes - it is unbelievable that so many good conservative people fall for the tale.
Good question.
At the local Salt Lake City comedy club:
“Take my wife..please. I mean the other one” (rimshot)
1833 hygiene was nothing to be desired. Bet Joe smelled like a horse in a barn.
Speaking of studs.... If Joseph Smith were alive today, he'd act just like Silvio Berlusconi.
...or the tail << snicker >>
Wife number 35 must have been kept in the dark about the other wives. Don't think she was one to make angry.
14 “You shall not commit adultery.
How do Mormons justify this?
IF they say Fanny was sealed to Joseph and thus they did not commit adultery, then why did Joseph Smith hide this marriage behind his first wife's back?
Why would a prophet of god act so 'sneaky'
And if Mormon's value their prophet and everything he did, why did they only make one statue of his wife?
Why didn't they make a statue of all of his wives unless they are trying to portray something else? Like a monogamous relationship?
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