I'm Hello, How did I not see this coming? I guess I didn't think this through.

Hello and welcome back to another episode of the year of polygamy podcast.

I'm your host, Lindsay, and today we are wrapping up our little mini series on the Word

of Wisdom.

And some people have asked, what does Word of Wisdom have to do with polygamy?

In early Mormonism, all of these things are

intertwined. They're all influencing each other. One of the reasons I started out talking about

the Word of Wisdom was I was looking into this family, this plural family, of John Conrad Nagel.

He's considered a founding pioneer. Lots of stories about him. He actually Americanized his name to Nail to get rid of the German.

But he had several wives and I started looking into their stories because I thought they might have an interesting story.

And I actually want to highlight the wife specifically. So if anyone listening out there has

information on these wives, more than just what I have, I'd be really interested in that. I'm looking

for journals specifically if they kept a journal. I will just give you a basic rundown of them.

But the reason why they're so so important to this project is they headed up the Dixie

Wine Mission, as we talked about in the last two episodes. So if you haven't listened to the last two

episodes on the history of the Word of Wisdom, you need to do that because it's going to give

some background on why we're talking about this. What we do have are family histories about John Nagel and there is a book published

and it's in the Dixie State Archives about John Nagel. John Nagel was of German descent. He was

born in 1825 in Bavaria, Germany and he came to America and settled in Indiana with his parents in 1832.

His surname, like I said, was changed from Nagel to N-A-L-S-O-E.

So it shows up in both.

N-A-I-L-E, and some of his descendants don't realize that.

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