170 years ago today - Feb 18, 1844

William Clayton's polygamous wife, Margaret Moon Clayton (sister of Clayton's first wife), bears a child Daniel Adelbert who dies six months later, and his father comments that "the tongue of slander has swung freely against him." Joseph Smith had performed this marriage.

[Source: http://www.advent-adam.com/jakestand.html (cached, based on http://amzn.to/extensions-power)]

2 comments:

  1. Source: An Intimate Chronicle: The Journals of William Clayton, edited by George D. Smith, pp.126,145.

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  2. Available online at the following link:

    http://boap.org/LDS/Early-Saints/clayton-diaries

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