Episode 34: Fanny Young

Year of Polygamy Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, History, Education, Christianity

4.8 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2014

⏱️ 14 minutes

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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 Fanny Young. Links mentioned in this podcast: Read […]

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0:00.0	One, two, three, go.
0:13.4	Hello and welcome back to the Feminist Mormon Housewives.
0:19.0	I'm your host, Lindsay, bringing you another episode in the year of polygamy, where we talk
0:24.7	about the wild and fun adventures that the Latter-day Saints experience with plural marriage.
0:31.5	Just kidding.
0:32.2	Actually, we're just trying to understand the practice as it was lived and played out amongst
0:36.2	the saints from the early days of the church until present time.
0:41.3	And today is our last episode dealing with the wives of Joseph Smith specifically.
0:46.9	They might pop up later on in the series, but this is the last biography we're doing.
0:52.1	And then our next episode is going to be about the Lamanite marriages
0:56.1	so stay tuned for that
0:58.3	also
0:59.9	about a
1:01.5	black ordained man
1:03.7	who ordained with the priesthood
1:06.1	who was also polygamous
1:07.9	so you're going to learn some fun
1:09.9	history but today we're talking about
1:11.5	Fannie Young Smith. And Fannie Young Smith would be one of Joseph's older wives. She was born in 1787.
1:24.1	So she was much older even than Joseph Smith.
1:29.3	She was born in Massachusetts.
1:32.6	Her parents, her parents were John and Abigail.
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