Wilford Woodruff, Diary, extracts, 1881-1886

File — Box: 7, Folder: 20

Identifier: I

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Diary, 9 March 1884: "Conference at Bountiful. Samuel W. Richards said where a man had two or three wives one after the other and did not have but one at a time he would still be in polygamy in the next world. The same as though he had them all at once. Joseph F. Smith thought different from Bro. Richards. He thought in that way a man would not be carrying out the patriarchal law of marriage if that would have answered he did not see the necessity of the Lord commanding Joseph the Prophet to take several wives at the same time."

Dates

1881-1886

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