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Year of Polygamy Podcast

Episode 55: Emmeline Free- Brigham’s “Abandoned Pet”

Year of Polygamy Podcast

Year of Polygamy Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, History, Education, Christianity

4.8821 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2014

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Join Lindsay as she interview genealogist Corey Horward about one of Brigham Young’s most beloved wives, Emmeline Free. Links mentioned in this podcast: Emmeline Free Young Biographical Sketch, by Corey Howard Newspaper article, “Brigham’s Abandoned Pet”

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0:00.0

One, two, three, go.

0:13.5

Feminist, Mormon. Housewives.

0:17.4

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

0:21.6

I'm your host, Lindsay, bringing you another episode in the year of Ligamy series,

0:25.4

where we tried to understand the practice of Mormon plural marriage and how it was lived out.

0:30.9

And I'm really excited because I have a good friend coming on today, Corey Howard,

0:35.8

and she's been really helpful to me in getting a lot of research done.

0:39.3

She's a genealogist in Salt Lake City, and she is just really, really good at this.

0:45.3

So, Corey, can you say hello?

0:47.2

Hi.

0:49.0

Will you tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got interested in this topic?

0:53.6

Well, I grew up in a Mormon family with all the usual pioneer stories

0:58.3

and doing genealogy with my family when I was little.

1:04.1

And all my mom took me to the genealogy library and had me look for names.

1:08.0

And then when I started paying more attention to some more details,

1:13.8

I found some really interesting stories in my family history, and I was hooked.

1:18.2

And a lot of it takes place in Utah, so sometimes you read a historical incident, and it ties into my own family.

1:26.1

So, and I think I'm just nosy i think you and i are

1:29.1

similar in that way and so it's been fun uh cori's always like hey if you if you want something from

1:35.1

the archives let me know and so i'll just we've been messaging each other randomly about the

1:40.6

strangest things i think but i'll be like hey you, can you read someone's diary for me?

1:45.3

So it's been really great. So I appreciate all your help. That's fun. So today we're going to be

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