Item Detail
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33045
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English
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Emmeline, Bertha, and Ada: "Be of good comfort. Yours in Bonds, Joseph Smith"
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John Whitmer Historical Association Journal
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Spring/Summer 2023
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43
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164-184
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"Joseph Smith III’s three successive wives are irrelevant to the fact that he abhorred plural marriage. All three had distinguishing traits that brought joy to their respective households. Emmeline, Bertha, and Ada each brought great joy and comfort to Joseph in their own ways at different times in his life. As Joseph himself put it in his Memoirs: 'As I have said, I loved my first wife with that ardent love usually cherished by young and domestically-inclined men for the companions they have chosen out of the world. In a little over twelve years of married happiness, her life was snuffed out and she was laid to rest near the flowing Mississippi in Nauvoo. My married life with my second companion was a very pleasant, placid and happy one, and continued for twenty-seven years with our mutual marital regard and esteem undisturbed and unbroken to the last. When her strong, robust life was cut short by an untoward accident, I married this, my third companion, for the purpose of keeping my home intact and preserving that domestic environment which has even been essential to my happiness.'" [Authors]