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Hello, and welcome back to another episode of the Feminist Warman House House Podcast.

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

And we are about done with the wives of Joseph Smith, and I'm excited to move into a more expanded version of this series.

But for now, let's finish it up.

We have a few more episodes to go, and then we are done

with the eyes of Joseph Smith. Let's talk about Nancy Winchester. Nancy was born on August 10th, 1828,

in Pennsylvania. She was four when her parents met missionaries traveling through Pennsylvania,

and they all converted shortly after.

The following year, the Winchester's moved to Curtin, Ohio, and they gathered with the Saints.

Little is known about her experience there and her historical records are scarce. By 1842, the Winchesters

had spent some time in Missouri and were now settled in Navu. We know that census

records have them listed as living in the third ward. In May of that year, Nancy would join the

Female Relief Society where she served on committees with the charter to, quote, search out the

poor and suffering to call on the rich for aid, and thus as far as possible relieve the wants of all."

Mary Little is known about her marriage to Joseph Smith, but LDS Church historian Andrew Jensen

records Nancy as a wife, marrying sometime before Joseph's death.

This marriage is most likely a dynastic union, and one can only speculate on the marriage

since such little evidence is provided.

Nancy would have been 14 or 15 years old at the time of the marriage.

Regardless, the age of consent may have little or no correspondence to the average age of first

marriage. And available research shows that in Joseph State, marriages to 14-year-old girls were legal, but rare.

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