[Juke Johnson Autobiography] My father moved to Kirtland, and was ordained to the office of high priest, and was a member of the first high council organized in the Church. He died in Kirtland in 1843. (1)
[Nauvoo] Life continued in a routine of hard work during the week and worship on Sunday. Sunday meetings were really general meetings for the entire community lasting about two hours each, one held in the morning and one in the evening. They were held in open-air groves, one of which was west of the temple and another a few blocks east of the temple. (2)
[Oregon Trail] Over 800 people outfit for the first major migration and push their wagons through much of the intermountain west, establishing that a wagon road to Oregon is feasible. Jesse Applegate's misfortunes on the Columbia River inspire him to forge a new route into Oregon. Oregon's Provisional Government is formed in anticipation of the arrival of this wave of emigrants. (3)
[Orin Porter Rockwell] It was on his return to Nauvoo, Illinois, where the church had relocated, that Rockwell became the subject of an astonishing prophecy by Mormon leader Joseph Smith on Christmas day of 1843. Smith said that as long as Rockwell remained loyal and true to his faith, he need fear no enemy: "Cut not thy hair and no bullet or blade can harm thee!" (4)
Orson Hyde: Took first plural wife, Martha Rebecca Browett , early 1843. No known children. One child: Urania. (5)
The revelation on celestial marriage contained in Section 132 of The Doctrine and Covenants is recorded by Joseph Smith. (6)
Edwin D. Wolley polygamous marriage to Lousa Gordon (7)
Hyrum Smith polygamous marriage to Catherine Phillips (7)
Hyrum Smith polygamous marriage to Lydia D. Granger (7)
Joseph Smith marries Nancy Winchester (Age 14): Nancy was born August 10, 1828 in Erie County Pennsylvania. She was the only daughter of Stephen and Nancy Winchester. When the younger Nancy was four-years-old the Winchesters were visited in Erie by two Mormon missionaries, John F. Boynton and Evan M. Greene. Nancys parents and older brother, Benjamin, were soon baptized.
The following year, the Winchesters moved to Kirtland, Ohio to be near others who shared their faith. Following Mormon practice, Nancy was probably baptized when she turned eight- years of age.
By 1842 the Winchesters had spent time in Missouri and were now settled in Nauvoo, living in the third ward. In May of that year, Nancy joined the Female Relief Society where she served on committees with the charter to search out the poor and suffering-To call on the rich for aid and thus as far as possible relieve the wants of all.
Nancys marriage to Joseph is undocumented, although according to Mormon Church Historian Andrew Jenson, Nancy married Joseph sometime before his death in June of 1844. Nancy would have been fourteen or fifteen years old.
A few months after Joseph Smiths death, Nancy and another six of Josephs wives married Heber C. Kimball. Since the temple had not been completed when Nancy married Joseph, she was re-sealed to him in 1846 in the near complete, but dedicated, Nauvoo temple. Her husband for time, Heber C. Kimball stood proxy for Joseph Smith in this sealing.
Nancy immigrated to Utah in 1849. Several years later she received a patriarchal blessing from John Smith. She was blessed, to heal the sick, cast out devils, and raise the dead, if necessary.
Nancy died on March 17, 1876 in Salt Lake City. (8)
Joseph Smith marriage to Almera Woodward Johnson Apr. age 30, (12 October 1812 in Westfield, Vermont - 4 March 1896 in Parowan, Utah) (9)
Joseph Smith marriage to Desdemona Fullmer Jul. age 32, (6 October 1809 in Huntington, Pennsylvania - 9 February 1886 in Salt Lake City, Utah) . William Clayton said Smith told him in February 1843 that Fullmer was one of his plural wives. (9)
Joseph Smith marriage to Eliza Maria Partridge Mar.8, age 22, Daughter of Edward Partridge and sister of Emily. Eliza married after Smith's death, to Amasa M. Lyman, who was already husband to Eliza's older sister, Caroline. William Clayton listed her as one of Smith's wives married during the early May 1843 period. (9)
Footnotes:
1 - Autobiography and History of Luke Johnson, Millennial Star 26 (1864), http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
2 - LDS Church News: Nauvoo -- The City of Joseph, http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/58063/Church-history--Nauvoo.html
3 - Clackamas Heritage Partners, http://www.historicoregoncity.org/HOC/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=107Itemid=75
4 - Utah History Encyclopedia: Orin Porter Rockwell, http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/r/ROCKWELL%2CORIN.html
5 - Cook, Lyndon W., The Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith: A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants, Seventy's Mission Bookstore, Provo UT, 1985, http://amzn.to/RevelationsofJosephSmith
6 - Howick, E. Keith, Polygamy: The Mormon Enigma, http://www.polygamy-faq.com/chronology.php
7 - Smith, George D (Spring 1994), "Nauvoo Roots of Mormon Polygamy, 1841-46: A Preliminary Demographic Report", Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 27
8 - Remembering the Wives of Joseph Smith, http://www.wivesofjosephsmith.org/
9 - Wikipedia, List of the Wives of Joseph Smith, Jr., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_wives_of_Joseph_Smith,_Jr.
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