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Lucinda Pendleton Morgan Harrisk the Second Plural Wife of Joseph Smith
Par Ray Speckman
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Lucinda is a unique wife in that she was married to two martyrs. The first was William Morgan, a Mason. The second was Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Mormon Religion. She was bound to Joseph Smith, Jr. by his father, Joseph Smith, Sr. Patriarch of the Mormon church while married.
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Lucinda Pendleton Morgan Harrisk the Second Plural Wife of Joseph Smith - Ray Speckman
EMMA SMITH
The First Wife And Co-conspirator
A Novelette in the Series,
The Wives of Joseph Smith
By Ray Speckman
Copyright © 2017 Ray Speckman
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Contents
Authors Introduction
I: Emma Smith
II: In The Beginning
III: No Ordinary Man
IV: The Plan
V: Aiders And Abettors
VI: Growth And Greed
VII: The Far West
VIII: Nauvoo
IX: Joseph And His Wives
X: The Cowardly Martyr
XI: New Life And New Normalancy
Author’s Notes
Authors Introduction
Emma Smith
The Wives of Joseph Smith
Emma Hale was Joseph Smith’s first wife.
Historians (and the Mormon Church) agree that Smith married to more than 30 others.
She denied to her death in 1879 that she knew of Smith’s multiple marriages.
Emma’s own words, written before her death, reveal she had lied.
This is a historically correct, first person novelette, of her life.
It is a revelation.
I
EMMA SMITH
My father’s admonishment:
"[I believe] the whole Book of Mormon
(so called) is a silly fabrication of falsehood and wickedness, got up for speculation, and with a design to dupe the credulous and unwary - and in order that its fabricators might live upon the spoils of those who swallowed the deception." Affidavit of Isaac Hale, March 20, 1834 affirmed to Charles Dimon, Justice of the Peace.
I need to write this.
I want my conscience to be as clear as possible.
If there be a God, and there is a Heaven, and if there is a celestial reuniting in Heaven, I will know by the time this is read. Or could we have been like all the other preachers, selling tickets to heaven?
This writing will be sealed, given to my eldest, and then passed to the eldest of each succeeding generation. My descendent that shall be in possession of the sealed envelope June 1, 1979 shall make this writing public.
I write from my heart, filled with guilt as it is, not to expunge the indiscretions, but to finally let the truth be told.
During my life, while wed to Joseph Smith,