First documented Nauvoo plural wife
Louisa Beaman
1815–1850
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Joseph Smith's Plural Marriage
First documented Nauvoo plural wife
Sealed to Joseph Smith on 5 April 1841 by her brother-in-law Joseph Bates Noble, in a grove near the Mississippi, wearing a man's coat and hat. Noble swore an affidavit to the ceremony in 1869 and testified about it again in the 1892 Temple Lot hearings. Hers is the earliest Nauvoo plural marriage that can be dated from a sworn statement.
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Louisa Beaman sealed to Joseph Smith at Nauvoohinge
In the evening, in a grove near the Mississippi, Joseph Bates Noble sealed his wife's sister Louisa Beaman to Joseph Smith, with Joseph dictating the words for Noble to repeat. Louisa, then twenty-six, was reportedly dressed in a man's coat and hat. Noble swore an affidavit to the ceremony on 26 June 1869 and repeated the testimony at the 1892 Temple Lot hearings, where he said of the wedding night, I know it, for I saw him in bed with her.
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