120 years ago today - Feb 28, 1894

On her seventieth birthday Joseph F. Smith, refers to Emily Dow Partridge Young as "aunt." This is a reference to the fact that she became a plural wife of Joseph Smith (Joseph F. Smith's uncle) in 1843 when she was 19.

[Source: http://www.advent-adam.com/jakestand.html (cached, now defunct)]

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