“Joseph Smith apparently was not Josephine Lyons’ father, Mormon History Association speaker says”

“Joseph Smith apparently was not Josephine Lyons’ father, Mormon History Association speaker says” June 17, 2016

 

Nauvoo in 1855
An 1855 engraving of Nauvoo, Illinois, from the western shore of the Mississippi. (Wikimedia Commons public domain) The original Nauvoo Temple is still partially standing; the Mormons had been driven out about a decade before.

 

I don’t think that I’ve mentioned this item before:

 

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865656112/Joseph-Smith-apparently-was-not-Josephine-Lyons-father-Mormon-History-Association-speaker-says.html?pg=all

 

I think it significant, given the image that some have come to believe (and to advocate) of Joseph Smith as a debauched sex-addict, that it’s been so very hard, to this point, to find many descendants from him.

 

Surely there ought to be hundreds, if not thousands by now, from his plural wives.  But there aren’t.

 

Incidentally, we’ll be seeing our friend Ugo Perego tomorrow, if not already tonight.

 

Posted from Uppsala, Sweden

 

 


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