Youngest plural wife
Helen Mar Kimball Whitney
1828–1896
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Joseph Smith's Plural Marriage
Youngest plural wife
Sealed to Joseph Smith in May 1843, some three months before her fifteenth birthday, after her father Heber C. Kimball proposed the match. She later became one of plural marriage's most articulate public defenders while also writing about the grief the sealing caused her and her mother. Whether the marriage was conjugal is disputed and undetermined.
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Helen Mar Kimball, aged fourteen, sealed to Joseph Smith
Heber C. Kimball proposed the match to Joseph and then to his daughter, who was two or three months short of her fifteenth birthday. Helen later wrote that her father taught me the principle of Celestial marriage and having a great desire to be connected with the Prophet, Joseph, he offered me to him, and that her mother grieved to see her child, who had scarcely seen her fifteenth summer, following in the same thorny path. Helen continued to live in her parents' home.
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