170 years ago today - March 23, 1844. Saturday.

[William Clayton Journal] A.M. rode with President Joseph and brother Neibaur to Doctor [Robert] Fosters. He was gone to appanose and his wife was at Mr. Gilmans. We went down there and saw her. President Joseph asked Sister Foster if she ever in her life knew him guilty of an immoral or indecent act. She answered no. He then explained his reasons for asking and then asked if ever he had used any indecent or insulting language to her, she answered, never. He further asked if he ever preached any thing like the spiritual wife doctrine to her only what he had preached in public. She said no! He asked her if he ever proposed to have illicit intercourse with her and especially when he took dinner during the Doctors absence. She said no. After some further conversation on the subject we left. Mrs. Gilman was present all the time.

[Source: George D. Smith, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1995, http://amzn.to/william-clayton]

3 comments:

  1. Just because Joseph Smith wasn't having illicit relations with Mrs.Foster, doesn't preclude he (along with many others in the LDS hierarchy) was having illicit relations with other women (which they SECRETLY were doing).

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  2. Just because Joseph Smith wasn't having illicit relations with Mrs.Foster, doesn't preclude him (along with many others in the LDS hierarchy) from having illicit relations with other women in Nauvoo (which the evidence shows he SECRETLY was doing).

    A good lawyer would state such.


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