170 years ago today - Feb 11, 1843

[Lucy Mack Smith] [Plural wife] Eliza [R. Snow] moves out of Joseph's and Emma's house and Lucy [Mac Smith] moves in. The Smiths are still living in the Homestead with their four children. After a six-month hiatus in marrying plural wives, Joseph marries his fifteenth plural wife. By November 1843, he has married sixteen more women, but then marries no more before his death.

[Source: Anderson, Lavina Fielding, Editor, Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, 2001, Signature Books, http://bit.ly/lucys-book]

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