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🗓️ 21 February 2014
⏱️ 7 minutes
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0:00.0 | One, two, three, go. |
0:09.6 | Feminist, Mormon. |
0:13.2 | Housewives |
0:13.9 | Feminist. |
0:18.8 | Hello, and welcome back to another episode of the Feminist War and Housewives podcast. |
0:22.7 | I'm your host, Lindsay, and we're bringing you another short episode in our series of A Year of Polygamy. |
0:28.7 | This time we're focusing on the wife of Joseph Smith. |
0:32.9 | Her name was Delcina Johnson Sherman. |
0:37.1 | And if you are just beginning and joining us on this series, |
0:40.1 | I would advise you to go to episode one with Fannie Alger, where we start at the very beginning. |
0:45.6 | And we intend to walk everyone through the issue of polygamy in Mormon doctrine, theology, |
0:53.8 | and practice, and move into the contemporary |
0:56.9 | practice. So it's going to be a big year, and I'm really excited. But let's go into Delcina |
1:02.3 | 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, |
1:13.7 | super religious and her father was said to be an alcoholic. At age 22, she married Lyman Royal Sherman, |
1:21.4 | a 24-year-old native of Vermont. In about 1831, they were visited by Mormon missionaries at their home in Palm Front, New York. |
1:30.8 | They had heard rumors of the restorationists in the area and were soon baptized and gathered with |
1:35.5 | the other saints in Curtland, Ohio. In winter of 1838, Delcina and her husband Sherman moved to |
1:41.0 | Missouri, declared by Revelation, as Zion. Delcina's husband, Lyman R. Sherman, assisted with the laying of the cornerstones for the |
1:48.6 | Kirtland Temple and made the most famous trip as a member of Zion's camp from Ohio to Missouri |
1:54.0 | 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 |
2:04.7 | Joseph Smith and others. And then he became one of the very first seven presidents of the 70 of the |
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