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

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

I hope you are enjoying this series so far.

I know that it's a little dry with just me talking, but

hopefully you can think of exotic islands and hobbits on a hero's journey or something while

while I talk because, if not that, you have to face the stark realities that is the practice of Mormon plural marriage.

If this is just your first time listening, I would recommend starting at episode one with Fannie Alger.

But tonight we're talking about another wife of Joseph Smith.

This particular wife is Olive Gray Frost.

This is an amazing name. If anyone out there is expecting a child, particularly a little girl, and you need a name, this is a beautiful name, Olive Gray Frost. Now, we don't have a lot of her own writings. We have a lot of her sister Marianne. So we're going to see what Marianne has to say about her and her life.

Olive Grey Frost was born on July 24th, 1816 in Livermore County, Maine, the 8th of 11 children.

She was known as a child from an early age who would find a quiet spot to retire and pray,

and pour her soul in secret

prayer to that being who rewards openly and frequently she incurred ridicule thereby from

those who were less sober-minded. So we know that from a very, very early age, Olive was

very devout, very spiritual, very religious. It's said that she enjoyed sewing,

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