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Show HERE'S A ROSIER OF PLURAL WIVES OF PRESIDENT SMITH AND APOSTLES WHO ARE KNOWN TO BE POLYGAMISTS s0 t S NUMBER OF WIVES OF CHURCHMEN. S ft PRESIDENT SMITH (1 dead) ......6 wives. S APOSTLE LYMAN 2 wives. APOSTLE GRANT a dead) 3 wives. APOSTLE TAYLOR (known) 3 wives. APOSTLE MERRILL g wives. APOSTLE TEASDALE (1 dead) wives. APOSTLE COWLEY wives APOSTLE SMITH 2 wives Here Is what purports to be an au-tbentio au-tbentio roster of the wives of President Smith and those of the twelve apostles who are polygamists: President Smith. PRESIDENT JOSEPH F. SMITH Divorced from first wife, Lavina A. Smith, June 10, 187. He gave her a church divorce, owing to her refusal to recognize his polygamous relations with the two Lamson sisters, Jullna and Edna Ed-na He married Jullna and Edna Lamson, Lam-son, sisters. Lavina died thirty years later, leaving a small estate. , President Smith's wives are: JuUna L. Smith, 333 W. First North street. 'Phone 93. Edna L. Smith, 143 North Second West. 'Phone 1435-Z. - Sarah E. Smith. 157 North Second West 'Phone 1435-X. Alice K. Smith. 127 N. Second West. Phone 1459-Z. Mary T. Smith, 5S E. North Temple. Phone 1709-K. President Smith's official residence Is at 833 .West First North. He has had about forty-three children by these wives. Apostle Lyman. FRANCIS M. LYMAN Next in line of succession to the Mormon throne now has two wives, as follows: First Rhoda Ann Taylor Lyman, Tooele, Utah. Second A sister of Susan Calllster (dead). Thlrd-Susan 'Calllster, who has several sev-eral young children, born since the manifesto. man-ifesto. Apostle Grant HEBER J. GRANT had three wives. One is dead. The list is; First Lucy Strlngham. (Dead.) Second Emily Wells, sister-of Gov. Wells. Third Augusta Winters. Upon death of the first wife. Grant legally married Emily Wells. Has had thirteen children, all girls. Now in London. A polygamy warrant Is await- I lng him here. Apostle Taylor. JOHN W. TAYLOR'S wives are: May Rich. Nettle Woolley. Nellie Todd. He has, children by each of them. Nettle and Nellie had children so near together that they are called V?e Taylor Tay-lor twins. Apostle Teasdale. 1 GEORGE TEASDALE'S wives are: Emily Emma Brown, died 1874. Married Llllias Hook, 1876. No children. chil-dren. ' - Married two Plxton sisterp, at same ceremony. Both dead. Married Marlon Scoles. died December Decem-ber 1898. f ' Divorced LiUIas Hook Teasdalfs , i ; : ., ,r r Married Lltitia Thomas. Apostle Cowley. MATHIAS F. COWLEY'S wives are: Abble Hyde. Luella Parkinson. He has had rlural children since the i manifesto. Apostle Smith. JOHN HENRY SMITH'S wive?: Sarah Farr. 1&6. JoEephlne Groesbeck, 1S77. Apostle Merrill. , MARRINER W. MERRILL'S wives are: Sarah Ann Atkinson. Cyrene Stanton. Maria L. Kingsbury. Mary Merrill. Jennie Jacobson. V Ella Nor burg. Sophia Anderson. Jane Toronto. He has had forty-five children, the majority boys. Twenty-six have married mar-ried and several are said to have gone I $Q polygamy, . . |