Joseph Smith asked Levi Hancock to take Fanny Alger [probable first plural wife of Joseph Smith] to Missouri. She and her family left the following month, and after a lengthy stop-over in Indiana (for unclear reasons, perhaps her pregnancy), reached Missouri a year later. [Joseph Smith also preached this day about the duty of wives]
[Source: Broadhurst, Dale R., Mormon Chronology, http://olivercowdery.com/history/morchrn2.htm]
Todd Compton's, In Sacred Loneliness, pp.36-37, from which DRB probably got his info., has both Aug.1835 & Aug.1836 as the date of departure. Stayed in Indiana for a year because of "bad roads".
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