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(February 7, 1815 – May 16, 1850). Though Mormon history and press indicate Beaman was not baptized until May 11, 1843, [30] [31] she had migrated with Mormons to Nauvoo in 1839 or 1840. [32] She has been called the "first plural wife of the Prophet Joseph Smith". [33] After Smith's death, Beaman remarried, becoming the ninth wife of Brigham ...
Along the Mormon Trail, Stillman lost to disease and death not only his second wife at Winter Quarters, Nebraska, but also — almost incomprehensibly and in utterly devastating circumstances — 8 children from both his first and second marriages (including 18-year-old Abigail, a plural bride of Presiding Bishop Newell K. Whitney).
This article lists the presidents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The included persons have served as President of the Church and prophet, seer, and revelator of the LDS Church.
The LDS Church began to practice polygamy in secret under the leadership of prophet Joseph Smith. When Utah became a territory in 1851, Brigham Young was appointed by the US Congress to be its first governor. After this milestone towards statehood, Mormons began to gradually become more open about their involvement in polygamy.
The Mormon doctrine of plural wives was officially announced by one of the Twelve Apostles, Orson Pratt, and church president Brigham Young in a special conference of the elders of the LDS Church assembled in the Salt Lake Tabernacle on 28 August 1852, and reprinted in the Deseret News Extra the following day. [2]
This came from a 2018 change by the group’s president and prophet, Russell M. Nelson, now age 100. ... one of the Hulu “Mormon Wives” — whom she did not name —is also an online ...
Of his fifty-six wives, twenty-one had never been married before; seventeen were widows; six were divorced; six had living husbands; and the marital status of six others is unknown. [1] Nine of his wives had previously been plural wives of Joseph Smith, and Young was sealed to them as a proxy for Smith. [1]
The LDS Church teaches that a celestial marriage is required for exaltation. [15] This teaching is based on Mormon scripture , in which Joseph Smith taught, "In the celestial glory there are three heavens or degrees; and in order to obtain the highest, a man must enter into this order of the priesthood [meaning the new and everlasting covenant ...