List of Joseph Smith's wives
List of wives

List of Joseph Smith's wives

Section Title: List of wives
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Plural wife's maiden name (married name)	Marriage Date	Age	Recognized by	Marital status at time of sealing	Notes

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-	January 17, 1827	22	Yes	Yes	Yes	N/A	The only woman legally wed to Smith, who he claimed publicly was his only spouse, and the only union known to have produced offspring.

Fanny Alger	Early 1833	16	Yes	Yes	Single	According to George D. Smith, Alger's relationship with Smith was attested to by several people, including Emma Smith, Warren Parish, Oliver Cowdery, and Heber C.

Lucinda Pendleton Morgan Harris	c. 1838	37	Yes	Yes	Yes	Married	Historians Richard Lloyd Anderson and Scott H. Faulring dismiss this claim as being based on "no solid evidence".

-	April 5, 1841	26	Yes	Yes	Yes	Single	(February 7, 1815 – May 16, 1850). Though Mormon history and press indicate Beaman was not baptized until May 11, 1843, she had migrated with Mormons to Nauvoo in 1839 or 1840.

Zina Diantha Huntington (Jacobs) Zina D. H. Young.JPG	October 27, 1841	20	Yes	Yes	Yes	Married	Husband was Henry Bailey Jacobs, who was aware of her plural marriage to Smith. Jacobs wrote, "[W]hatever the Prophet did was right, without making the wisdom of God's authorities bend to the reasoning of any man." Sister of Presendia Huntington.

-	December 11, 1841	31	Yes	Yes	Yes	Married	(September 7, 1810 in Watertown, New York – February 1, 1892 in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory). Sister of Zina.

-	January 6, 1842	31	Yes	Yes	Yes	Widowed	Widow of Smith's brother Don Carlos. (1808–1876).

-	February 8, 1842	23	Yes	Yes	Yes	Married	Daughter of David Sessions and Patty Bartlett Sessions, who married Smith one month after her daughter's marriage to him. On her deathbed, Sylvia informed her daughter Josephine Lyons that she was Smith's daughter, but genetic testing has contradicted this assertion.

Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner	January 17, 1842	23	Yes	Yes	Yes	Married	(April 9, 1818 in Lima, New York – December 17, 1913 in Minersville, Utah). Claimed that Smith had a private conversation with her in 1831 when she was twelve years old, "[At age 12 in 1831], [Smith] told me about his great vision concerning me.

-	March 9, 1842	47	Yes	Yes	Yes	Married	(February 4, 1795 in Bethel, Massachusetts (now Maine) – December 14, 1893 in Bountiful, Utah Territory). Her daughter Sylvia Porter Sessions Lyon, who had married Smith one month before, was present at Session's wedding to Smith.

-	April 1842	27 (16)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Married	(June 28, 1815 in Pomfret, Vermont – March 24, 1886 in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory). Wife of Orson Hyde; daughter of John Johnson.

-	Before June 1842	50	Yes	Yes	Yes	Married	(March 11, 1791 in Riverhead, New York – December 16, 1876 in White Cloud, Kansas). According to Anderson and Faulring, this claim is based on Bennett and "an ambiguous statement attributed to Sarah Pratt by the hostile journalist Wyl." The statement made by Sarah Pratt was, "I don't think she was ever sealed to him, though it may have been the case after Joseph's death.

Sally Ann Fuller	1842	26?	No	Yes	Yes	Unknown

-	Before June 29, 1842	53	Yes	Yes	Yes	Married	(1788 – April 20, 1856 in Plymouth, Illinois). Anderson and Faulring state that this is "only a guess" based on a claim "without any supporting data".

-	Before July 1842	37	Yes	Yes	Yes	Single	(November 19, 1806 in Westfield, Vermont – October 21, 1854 in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory. Widow of Lyman R.

Eliza Roxcy Snow Eliza Roxcy Snow photograph.PNG	June 29, 1842	38	Yes	Yes	Yes	Single	Sister of Lorenzo Snow. Organized a petition in summer 1842, with a thousand female signatures, denying Smith a polygamist.

-	July 27, 1842	17	Yes	Yes	Yes	Single	Whitney was born in Kirtland, Ohio on March 22, 1825 to Newel K. Whitney and Elizabeth Whitney.

-	August 1842	37	Yes	Yes	Yes	Single	Widow of Vinson Knight; later sealed to Heber C. Kimball.

Sarah Bapson	1842	Yes	Unknown	Unknown

Ruth D. Vose (Sayers)	February 1843	34	Yes	Yes	Yes	Married

Flora Ann Woodworth	Spring 1843	16	Yes	Yes	Yes	Single	William Clayton listed her as one of Smith's wives whom he married in early May 1843.

-	March 4, 1843	19	Yes	Yes	Yes	Single	Daughter of Edward Partridge and sister of Eliza. After Smith's death, she married Brigham Young.

-	March 8, 1843	22	Yes	Yes	Yes	Single	Daughter of Edward Partridge and sister of Emily. Eliza married after Smith's death, to Amasa M.

-	August 1843	30	Yes	Yes	Yes	Single	(October 12, 1812 in Westfield, Vermont – March 4, 1896 in Parowan, Utah). Widow of Samuel H.

Lucy Walker	May 1, 1843	17	Yes	Yes	Yes	Single	Wrote about her plural marriage to Smith, "In the year 1842 President Joseph Smith sought an interview with me, and said, ‘I have a message for you, I have been commanded of God to take another wife, and you are the woman.' … He asked me if I believed him to be a Prophet of God.

Sarah Lawrence	May 1843	17	Yes	Yes	Yes	Single	(May 13, 1826 in Pickering Township, Upper Canada – 1872) Sister of Maria.

Maria Lawrence	May 1843	19	Yes	Yes	Yes	Single	(December 18, 1823 in Pickering Township, Upper Canada – ? in Nauvoo, Illinois).

-	May 1843	14	Yes	Yes	Yes	Single	Daughter of Heber C. Kimball.

Hannah Ells	1843	29	Yes	Yes	Unknown	Single	(March 4, 1813 in New York City, New York – 1844 in Nauvoo, Illinois)

Elvira Annie Cowles (Holmes)	June 1, 1843	29	Yes	Yes	Yes	Married	(November 23, 1813 in Unadilla, New York – March 10, 1871 in Farmington, Utah Territory).

-	June 12, 1843	58	Yes	Yes	Yes	Single	(August 8, 1784 in Framingham, Massachusetts – January 17, 1879 in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory). First cousin of Brigham Young, whom she married after Smith's death.

-	July 1843	32	Yes	Yes	Yes	Single	Born to Peter and Susannah on October 6, 1809, in Huntington, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. Desdemona was baptized into the Church of the Latter Day Saints herself by John P.

Olive Grey Frost	Summer 1843	27	Yes	Yes	Yes	Single	(July 24, 1816 in Bethel, Massachusetts (now Maine) – October 6, 1845 in Nauvoo, Illinois). After Smith's death, Frost became the eighteenth plural wife of Brigham Young.

-	Summer 1843	34	No	Yes	Yes	Divorced	(January 14, 1809 in Groton, Vermont – August 24, 1891 in Pleasant Grove, Utah Territory). Sister of Olive Grey Frost.

Melissa Lott	September 20, 1843	19	Yes	Yes	Yes	Single	Daughter of early Mormon leader Cornelius P. Lott, who managed Smith's farm in Nauvoo.

Nancy Mariah Winchester	1842 or 1843	14	Yes	Yes	Yes	Single	Daughter of Stephen Winchester, Sr. of Vershire, Vermont (who was a member of the Danite militia and the Quorum of the Seventy) and his wife Nancy Case of Argyle, New York.

Fanny Young (Murray)	November 2, 1843	56	Yes	Yes	Yes	(November 8, 1787 in Hopkinton, Massachusetts – June 11, 1859). Wife of Roswell Murray

Mary Houston	Before 1844	No	Yes	Unknown	Unknown

Sarah Scott	Before 1844	No	Yes	Yes	Unknown

Olive Andrews	Before 1844	No	Yes	Yes	Unknown

Jane Tippets	Before 1844	78	No	Yes	Yes	Unknown

Sophia Sanburn	Before 1844	No	Yes	Unknown	Unknown

Phoebe Watrous (Woodworth)	Before 1844	Unknown	No	Yes	Yes	Unknown

Vienna Jaques	Before 1844	Unknown	No	Yes	Yes	Unknown

-	March 29, 1833	19	Yes

(Mrs Blossom)	Unknown	Yes	Wife of Edward Blossom

Mary Huston	Unknown	Yes

Cordelia Calista Morley	Unknown	Yes

Nancy Maria Smith	Unknown	Yes

Jane Tibbets	Unknown	Yes

Sophia Woodman	Unknown	Yes

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Alger was the first plural wife of Joseph Smith.

final_sentence: Alger was the first plural wife of Joseph Smith.