The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-08
Proof of Plural Mar.
riages Since 1890.
MRS. CLARA MABEL KENNEDY
Tells Of Her Marriage to PoIyoami.&
by Brigham Young, Junior
Other Testimony.

WASHINGTON. March s.-Mrs.
Clara Mabel Kennedy. who testified
yesterday that she was married bv
Brigham Young. jr., apostle of the
church, to Francis Joseph johnson.
polygamist, since the manifesto of
1890, resumed the stand this morning.
Answering Attorney Worthington She
said she knew no reason for her Jour-
ney of IS miles from Diaz to Juarez.
Mexico. to be married as plural wife
to OJhnson. She did not know whether
or not any effort had been made to
have the marriage performed at Diaz.
She did not inform the man who
married her that Johnson was already
married. SO far as she knew the ceie.
brant might have believed he was mar
rying Johnson to his first wife. She
had heard that Apostle Teasdale OBJ
jected to her plural marriage and had
refused to marry her, notwithstanding
intercessiOn by her mother. who was
away with.
Charles Merrill. son Of the apostle,
testified that he is the son of his
fathers third plural wife and is him.
self polygamist. He was first mar
ried in 1887 to a wife, who died in
1889. In 1891 he married Chloe Hem
bricks, by whom he had five children.
In 1888 he married Anna StOddard. by
whom he had four children and was
living with her when he married Chloe
Hendricks. whom he called his legal
life. Merrill said he now has two
wives and is cohabiting with both. He
denied that the woman he married in
1855 is his legal wife. explaining that
when he married in 1855 he had a wife
living and that he understood that
under the laws that marriage was not
regal. HelcIoft HIS MAJ liittSt III 1891
after the death of his first wife in 1889
made his last marriage legal.
When questioned concerning the
ceremony of 1888, the witness
declared that he could not remember
how it was performed. He could not
repeat it, but when closely examined
by Senator Hoar he admitted that it
was no ordinary wedding service. The
witness lived with both wives, who
had separate homes at Richmond, Utah.
At the time of the second marriage his
home was with his mother. His faith
ar was on the underground route"
that is he was in hiding because Of
going on for polygamy,
So far as he knew his father did not
know the witness had a wife already
when he was married by his father to
the woman he now calls his legal wife.
His father had six wives and he had
twenty brothers and seventeen sisters.
He did not know how many nephews
and nieces he had, probably 100. Three
Of his brothers married plural wives,
and two sisters married into polyg-
9mous families. His father lives with
his first wife but comes TO the home
If his mother once q month. Fatner
is very busy man" he added.
Francis Lyman, member OF the
first presidency and prospective sue
,assor of Smith, showed the same de-
fant spirit of his superior. He con-
tossed that he has three plural wives
and declared his intention to keep the
two living in disobedence of the law
If his country, of his church and Of
Cod as Senator Hoar put it. He said
that he is not only living in polyg-
mons cohabitation. but expected to
to do so.