Joseph C. Kingsbury participates in a "pretend marriage" to seventeen-year-old Sarah Ann Whitney order to help Joseph Smith disguise his secret marriage to her. Kingsbury writes in his autobiography, "I according to Pres. Joseph Smith & Council & others agreed to stand by Sarah Ann Whitney as though I was supposed to be her husband and [participated in] a pretended marriage for the purpose of . . . Bringing about the purposes of God in these last days . . ."
[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
This entry is also found in the following 3 sources:
ReplyDelete1. Mormon Polygamy: A History, by Richard S. Van Wagoner, Signature Books (2nd edition, 1989), p.48.
2. Nauvoo Polygamy: "... but we called it celestial marriage", by George D. Smith, Signature Books (2008), pp.189-190, 400.
3. In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith, by Todd Compton, Signature Books (1997), p.351.