One, two, three, go.

Feminist, Mormon.

Housewives.

Feminist.

Mormon.

Housewives.

Hello and welcome back to another episode of the feminist Mormon Housewives podcast.

I'm your host, Lindsay, and today we're bringing you another episode in the year of polygamy.

This time we're going to be talking about one of Joseph Smith's plural wives.

Her name was Alma Johnson, and I hope you'll forgive me.

I have a little bit of allergies. So I sound, at least in my head, I sound like a frog. So hopefully

I don't sound too frogish for this podcast. Almara Johnson was born on October 12th, 1812 in Westford,

Chittenton County, Vermont. Two parents, Ezekiel and

Julia Hills Johnson. You might remember the name of her older sister, Delcina Johnson, Sherman,

who was also a plural wife of Joseph Smith. Both were part of a very large family and grew up

with a very religious mother and an

alcoholic father. Elmer and her family gathered with the Saints in Curtin, Ohio, then Missouri,

and eventually Macedonia, Illinois, approximately 20 miles east of Navu. Elmer's brother,

Benjamin, became close with Joseph Smith and was appointed the agent of church property in Macedonia.

So we know the name Benjamin Johnson. He's famous in early Mormon history.

On April 1st, 1843, Joseph visited Macedonia and stayed at the Johnson home.

Delcina Johnson, who was their older sister, married Joseph Smith about 10 months earlier and

...