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Feminist.

Hello, and welcome back to another episode of the Feminist War and Housewives podcast.

I'm your host, Lindsay, and we're bringing you another short episode in our series of A Year of Polygamy.

This time we're focusing on the wife of Joseph Smith.

Her name was Delcina Johnson Sherman.

And if you are just beginning and joining us on this series,

I would advise you to go to episode one with Fannie Alger, where we start at the very beginning.

And we intend to walk everyone through the issue of polygamy in Mormon doctrine, theology,

and practice, and move into the contemporary

practice. So it's going to be a big year, and I'm really excited. But let's go into Delcina

Johnson. She was born on November 19, 18, 1806 in Westford, Vermont. She was raised in a really large family and her mother was super,

super religious and her father was said to be an alcoholic. At age 22, she married Lyman Royal Sherman,

a 24-year-old native of Vermont. In about 1831, they were visited by Mormon missionaries at their home in Palm Front, New York.

They had heard rumors of the restorationists in the area and were soon baptized and gathered with

the other saints in Curtland, Ohio. In winter of 1838, Delcina and her husband Sherman moved to

Missouri, declared by Revelation, as Zion. Delcina's husband, Lyman R. Sherman, assisted with the laying of the cornerstones for the

Kirtland Temple and made the most famous trip as a member of Zion's camp from Ohio to Missouri

in May of 1834. After his return to Kirtland, he was ordained as a 70 on February 28th of 1835, and he was ordained by

Joseph Smith and others. And then he became one of the very first seven presidents of the 70 of the

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