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Year of Polygamy Podcast

Episode 18: Ruth Vose Sayers

Year of Polygamy Podcast

Year of Polygamy Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, History, Education, Christianity

4.8821 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2014

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Join Lindsay for the primer series on Mormon Polygamy that will begin with the wives of Joseph Smith and eventually broaden to contemporary strains of the practice today. This episode deals with Ruth Daggettt Vose Sayers Smith. Links mentioned in […]

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0:00.0

One, two, three, go.

0:09.5

Feminist, Mormon.

0:13.1

Housewives.

0:17.0

Feminist.

0:18.8

Mormon.

0:20.5

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

0:21.4

Hello and welcome back to another episode

0:24.0

of the feminist Mormon Housewives podcast.

0:26.4

I'm your host, Lindsay,

0:27.4

and we are back talking about another story of Mormon polygamy

0:32.3

dealing with our series of year of polygamy.

0:35.0

If this is your first time listening,

0:36.9

I would encourage you to go back to

0:38.1

episode one where we start with Fannie Alger. Now, we're going through Joseph Smith's wife's

0:41.7

right now because that is where the bulk of my older research has been done. We are going to

0:48.3

move forward in the future, not just with individual stories, but with more histories, if you will, that are a little bit more,

0:57.0

some that will be a little bit more broad and some that will be a little bit more in depth.

1:00.4

So today we're going to be talking about another wife of Joseph Smith.

1:04.2

Today it's Ruth Daggett Vos Sayers Smith, which is quite a name, quite a mouthful Ruth Daggett Voss, Sayer Smith.

1:13.3

Say it five times.

1:15.2

She was born on February 26, 1808, and she was a third child to Mark and Sally Vose in Massachusetts.

1:24.4

Interesting fact about Ruth is her mother, Sally, when Sally got married, she was five months pregnant with her first child.

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