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Joseph Smith’s bastard children

“Prescindia, who was Norman Buell’s wife and simultaneously a plural wife of the Prophet Joseph Smith, said that she did not know whether her husband Norman or the Prophet was the father of her son, Oliver. And a glance at a photo of Oliver shows a strong resemblance to Emma Smith’s boys.” (Mary Ettie V. Smith, “Fifteen Years Among the Mormons”, page 34; Fawn Brodie “No Man Knows My History” pages 301-302, 437-39)

Of this, historian Fawn Brodie herself further wrote: “Evidence of children born to Joseph Smith by women other than Emma is extremely scarce except in the case of Prescindia Huntington Buell. Prescindia once stated to Mrs. Ettie V. Smith that ‘she did not know whether Mr. Buel or the Prophet was the father of her son.’ This statement I regarded with due reserve until I discovered a photograph of the son, Oliver Buell, which showed an unmistakable likeness to other sons of Joseph, born by Emma Smith.

That the Huntington family looked upon young Oliver as the Prophet’s son is suggested by Oliver Huntington’s diary entry of November 14, 1884: ‘Then I stood proxy for the Prophet Joseph Smith in having sealed or adopted to him a child of my sister Prescenda, had while living with Norman Buell.’ The ambiguous wording of the phrase I have italicized is significant, especially since there is no similar entry for any other of her children.” (No Man Knows My History, Fawn Brodie)

My friend noted: It is obvious from this entry that the child was likely Joseph’s, since there would be no reason for Prescindia to have one child sealed to Joseph that she had with her own husband Norman, if born while living with Norman. I have looked for the photograph online, but have been unable to find it.

2. - “Sylvia P. Sessions, married to Windsor P. Lyon, gave birth to a daughter on 8 February 1844, less than five months before Joseph Smith’s martyrdom. That daughter, Josephine, related in a 24 February 1915 statement that prior to her mother’s death in 1882 ‘she called me to her bedside and told me that her days on earth were about numbered and before she passed away from mortality she desired to tell me something which she had kept as an entire secret from me and all others but which she now desired to communicate to me.’ Josephine’s mother told her she was ‘the daughter of the Prophet Joseph Smith, she having been sealed to the Prophet at the time that her husband Mr. Lyon was out of fellowship with the Church.’” (Affidavit to Church Historian Andrew Jenson, 24 Feb. 1915)


533 posted on 12/31/2013 6:08:47 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Tennessee Nana

This makes me weep. How can otherwise intelligent beings be so deluded?
Happy New Year, and praise God Almighty you are yours are free.


535 posted on 12/31/2013 6:11:24 PM PST by svcw (Not 'hope and change' but 'dopes in chains')
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To: Tennessee Nana
Of this, historian Fawn Brodie herself further wrote: “Evidence of children born to Joseph Smith by women other than Emma is extremely scarce except in the case of Prescindia Huntington Buell.

I guess that 'Multiply' thingy didn't work like GOD said.

Why did GOD lie???


 
THE
DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS
OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
SECTION 132
 
55 But if she will not abide this commandment, then shall my servant Joseph do all things for her, even as he hath said;
 and I will bless him and multiply him and give unto him an ahundredfold in this world, of fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters,
 houses and lands, wives and children, and crowns of beternal lives in the eternal worlds.
 
 
 
 
 
              Oooops!!
 

549 posted on 12/31/2013 8:56:21 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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