(Zina D. H. Young) T. B. H. Stenhouse reported that some time after Joseph Smith's death, "within the hearing of many Saints … [Brigham Young] ordered those walking in other men's shoes to step out of them. 'Brother Jacobs,' Young declared, 'the woman you claim for a wife does not belong to you. She is the spiritual wife of brother Joseph sealed up to him. I am his proxy, and she is, in this behalf, with her children, my property. You can go where you please, and get another, but be sure to get one of your own kindred spirit.'"
In Jacobs "stood approving as [Zina's] earlier sealing to Joseph Smith was confirmed by proxy in the Nauvoo Temple," and "witnessed her sealing 'for time' to Brigham Young." 1846
[source: Van Wagoner, Richard and Walker, Steven C., A Book of Mormons, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
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