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.
(Excerpt) Read more at wivesofjosephsmith.org ...
ALL plural marriage is the old perverts marrying younger and younger brides. It is the perfect system for perverted old men and cowed women.
Three other unavoidable facts.
1. Polygamy and bigamy were illegal at the time smith started mormon polygamy (so much for the 12th statment from the AoF)
2. Polygamy was specifically prohibited by mormon scriptures at the time as well as spoken AGAINST by smith (all the while he was married to other women).
3. Of the women he ‘married’, several were at the same time STILL married to their FIRST husband.
Upon discovering that he’d boinked and bred the poor little lost waif they’d taken in, Ms. Emma shoulda shot Mr. Joe right in the head. Or driven a tent peg thru both his temples while he slept, maybe.
And I just happened to post an excerpt thread of that here: Alger History and Ancestry: Fanny W. Alger 1817-1879 [Mormon - Open]
And guess what "revelation" occurs there? Well, apparently before Fanny Alger married again at age 19 by a Custer fella, Brigham Young (otherwise known as "Bring 'em Young") trotted out to Mayfield, OH, where Fanny was then staying with relatives...by this time she was 18 or 19...and Brigham "proposed"...(of course, exactly what Brigham was "proposin" that she agree to is open to debate)
I mean, Brigham officially proposing marriage...e'en tho...
...Brigham was already married?...
...& the "official" doctrine of polygamy was still yet to be publicly announced for another 16-17 years?...
...& she was likely still officially (in the eyes of the church) already married to Joseph?...
...& Brigham wasn't carrying on an ongoing courting relationship with her [I mean, what? He just shows up from out of town at her door, and says, "Ya wanna get secretly 'married' to me, too, wink-wink, nod-nod?"]
I think we get the "moral" picture of what was going on amongst these men.
Joseph Smith was a fraud, as recorded in Court:
“Josiah Stowell, a Mormonite, being sworn, testified that he positively knew that said Smith never had lied to, or deceived him, and did not believe he ever tried to deceive any body else. The following questions were then asked him, to which he made the replies annexed.
Did Smith ever tell you there was money hid in a certain glass which he mentioned?
Yes.
Did he tell you, you could find it by digging?
Yes.
Did you dig?
Yes.
Did you find any money?
No.
Did he not lie to you then, and deceive you?
No! the money was there, but we did not get quite to it!
How do you know it was there?
Smith said it was!
Addison Austin was next called upon, who testified, that at the very same time that Stowell was digging for money, he, Austin, was in company with said Smith alone, and asked him to tell him honestly whether he could see this money or not.
Smith hesitated some time, but finally replied, “to be candid, between you and me, I cannot, any more than you or any body else; but any way to get a living.”
Here, then, we have his own confession, that he was a vile, dishonest impostor.
As regards the testimony of Josiah Stowell, it needs no comment. He swears positively that Smith did not lie to him. So much for a Mormon witness.”
http://olivercowdery.com/smithhome/1877Purp.htm
Did he not lie to you then, and deceive you?
No! the money was there, but we did not get quite to it!
How do you know it was there?
100% based on feelings. Nothing objective: No facts. No evidence. No logical support.
And no objective way to know that the feelings are not demonic.
That’s mormonism.
Smith said it was!
Joseph Smith also said that all LDS members were to send me, dragonblustar, a monthly donation from $50. on up if they were to ever enter the secret celestial center of a creamy cadbury egg.
Oh my heck, I’m getting a strong testimony of Cadbury eggs right now!
LoL! I hear yeah sister!
I’m getting a strong testimony of Cadbury eggs right now!
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I sustain that testimony !!!
Uh, fellows....
That’s BRIGHAM YOUNG; not JS!
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