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Hello, and welcome back to another episode of the Feminist War and Housewives podcast. I'm your

host, Lindsay, bringing you another episode in the year of Pologna. If this is your first time

tuning in, I would recommend that you start with episode one with Fannie Alger, as the series is

meant to go in chronological order as best as possible. So thank you for listening.

I'm excited to bring you another episode.

This time we're talking about one of Joseph Smith's plural wives, Melissa Lott.

She is one of the later plural wives that he would marry right before his death.

And she has a very interesting story, very connected to Mormon history.

So I hope you will enjoy this.

I'm not going to have a reader for this one because we don't have a lot of primary sources,

meaning Melissa herself writing the stuff, although I do have her temple lot affidavit, which I will read.

So let's get into it.

Melissa was born on January 9, 1824 in Pennsylvania to parents Cornelius, Peter Lott, and

Pramilia Dero.

We don't know a lot about her childhood.

We do know that she moved around a lot, and her family was converted to the Mormon church

sometime around 1834.

In 1836, the Lott family ended up in Kirtland.

And if you know anything about 1836 and Kirtland, this would have been a time of great spiritual manifestations in Curtland.

A lot of, like, sort of Pentecostal experiences were going on in Curtland.

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