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Runnells grew up as a sixth-generation member of the LDS Church with pioneer ancestry, [3] which traces back to Nauvoo, Illinois. [4] Runnells was born in Whittier, California and grew up in various cities across Southern California. He was diagnosed with mild hearing loss at age 3 or 4. He wore hearing aids over the course of his youth. In the ...
Emma Hale Smith Bidamon (July 10, 1804 – April 30, 1879) was a leader in the early Latter Day Saint movement and a prominent member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS Church) as well as the first wife of Joseph Smith, the movement's founder. [1]
Ida Frances Hunt Udall (March 8, 1858 – April 26, 1915) was an American diarist, homesteader, and teacher in territorial Utah and Arizona.A lifelong member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), Udall participated in the church's historical practice of plural marriage as the second wife of Latter-day Saint bishop David King Udall and co-wife of former telegraphist ...
Lucy Harris (May 1, 1792 – 1836) was the wife of Martin Harris, and an early skeptic of Joseph Smith's claim that he translated the Book of Mormon from golden plates. Biography [ edit ]
When a marriage ends in divorce, or if a husband and wife separate, they should always receive counseling from Church leaders." [11] In the LDS Church, the bride should wear a wedding dress that is "white, modest in design and fabric, and free of elaborate ornamentation" when getting married in the temple.
Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner (April 9, 1818 – December 17, 1913) was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and a Mormon pioneer.One of the plural wives of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, Lightner is credited with rescuing papers that were later published as part of the Doctrine and Covenants from anti-Mormon mobs.
In response, numerous affidavits were printed in the local and pro-Mormon Nauvoo press (e.g., the Nauvoo Wasp), most prominently Jacob B. Backenstoes, the non-Mormon sheriff of Hancock County and Pratt's former landlords, Stephen H. Goddard and his wife, whose name was recorded as either Zeruiah, Zerviah, or Zemiah.
[2]: 127 Smith's first wife was Hellen Maria Fisher. She was born on September 20, 1835, in Pennsylvania. Smith and Fisher married on December 25, 1853. [4]: 99 She died on September 3, 1907. Hellen was outspoken about her lack of enthusiasm for plural marriage which was a highly encouraged practice by the LDS Church at the time.