Was Joseph Smith Ever “Sealed” To Emma?
Why wouldn’t Joseph Smith’s sealing to Emma be a celebrated, documented, discussed, or written about as a major LDS restoration milestone? Why didn’t a single record of the town’s biggest celebrity couple’s sealing exist in a gossipy town of 12,000+ people? Why were cryptic symbols used to hide Joseph Smith’s perfectly legal “sealing” to Emma? Why would a well-known and legally married couple need to hide a sealing? Why rewrite a guys name as a woman’s in order to claim Hyrum was sealed to him/her? How did a violent man’s assault trial turn into a random outpouring of sealing ordinances, even for people who weren’t even there? How did people end up being sealed before they were supposedly married, according to sworn affidavits? Who was behind these changes, and why
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Thank you JCR! I fixed it.
typo "1975" likely should be "1875"
Dear friends, Thank you for your hard work. My views on this complex history have evolved over time. My journey…