Original sentence: In official church publications, Smith publicly denied such doctrines existed.Smith was falsely reported to have stated.Smith was reportedly married to other women along with Emma.There is considerable debate as to whether the Mormons knew their opponents were government officials
Edited sentence: An anti-Smith biographer asserts that Smith declared the following:.Eight wives (24 percent) were in Smith's own peer group, ages thirty-one to forty.In official church publications, Smith publicly denied the existance of the doctrine of plural marriage.In the group aged forty-one to fifty, there is a substantial drop off: two wives, or 6 percent, and three (9 percent) in the group aged fifty-one to sixty.In the group of Smith's well-documented wives, eleven (33 percent) were 14 to 20 years old when they married him.Nine wives (27 percent) were twenty-one to thirty years old.Smith was married to other women along with Emma