St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-20
Nellie White, the Mormon.

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Who is Nellie Whitea She is tall, good
looking girl, with brown eyes and beautiful
auburn hair aged twenty, of English paren-
entage. Her mother is the sister of Mrs. T.
b. ID. Stenhouse, who apostatized fifteen
years ago and wrote book on polygamy
which has thrown no little light upon this
divine institution Mrs. White was so de-
vout Mormonsin the old country as to obey
counsel and gather to Zion' with her child
rem during her husbands absence at sea.
Join the faithful, - urged the elders, ''and
your husband will be sure to follow" Sister
White was able to do so for the reason that
her husband made her his banker. He did
follow her, and to day both man and wife
are ardent saints. Mrs. White Is especially
fanatical, and believes in polygamy as the
sure road to heavenly bliss. Some years ago
when living in the country, she told her hus-
band to go to Salt Lake City and select a new
wife. The obedient spouse did as he was
told, found a Scotch girl at his boarding
house suited to his requirements, and the
necessary sealing" was soon performed.
Those who know the legal wife do not think
her as happy as in former years, but never
word passes her lips as to the trials of polyga-
my. What can be expected of the daugh-
ter OF such mother? Nellie White though
possessed OF more than average intelligence
Tor girl born and reared in a Mormon set
uement, and is of religious temperament,
believes implicitly in her mother From her
childhood she has known nothing but Nor
monism. She has been taught that the rev.
elation On marriage is from God. When,
then, Bishop Roundy, of Wanship, aged six
ty-fve, asked Nellie White to become his
third wife and her mother encouraged the
marriage, is it strange that the inexperienced
and obedient girl accepted the proposal?
How many average girls anywhere, brought
up under similar influence, would do differ
emily? 1t is said that Nellie White was en-
gagged to young man before the ancient
bishop entered the lists as suitor and that
the youthful rival was sent on mission in
order to get him out of the way. This holy
game has been so often played here as to
make it quite creditable in the present in
stance. That Nellie White should have given
up monogamy and youth for polygamy and
old age is quite possible, considering the in
fuence OF her mother, which would all be
thrown in the religious" balance. The
marriage with Roundy occurred, think,
On Thursday, December Goth, 1888. heard
of it through friends of the Whites, who were
very indignant at this violation of law and
decency. know, too, how secretly the seal
ing was consummated. Several days before
this event Nellie White was questioned by a
friend as to the stand she would take If she
eyer entered polygamy and the law laid its
hands upon her. ''They might send me to
prison, they might do what they liked, y re-
Piled the girl. with flashing eyes. ''I'd die
before I'd betray my husband!n Little did
that friend know what tender ground she had
been treading upon. After five months of
polygamic honeymoon, Nellie, White, other
wise Mrs. Roundy No. 8, is shut up in pris-
on