But it is coupled with my Great Aunt Mary's sin of omission.
Here:
http://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Young,_Zina_D._H.
"On March 7, 1841, Zina married Henry Bailey Jacobs. She later married Joseph Smith and, after Joseph's death, Brigham Young. She had two sons, Zebulon William and Henry Chariton Jacobs, and one daughter, Zina Presendia (Prescindia, Precindia) Young."

And Here:
http://www.josephsmith.net/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?hideNav=1&locale=0&sourceId=e22b05481ae6b010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD

Aunt Mary doesn't mention that she was married 6 months earlier to Jacobs. She doesn't mention Zina was married to 2 men at the same time and bore children of the legal husband whilst married to the other one.

But Janet Peterson does the hatchet job on Henry Jacobs for "The Church" members here.
https://www.lds.org/friend/1989/02/zina-diantha-huntington-young-angel-of-mercy?lang=eng
"After Henry deserted Zina and the two little boys, Zebulon and Chariton, she married Brigham Young and crossed the plains to the Salt Lake Valley with his family. A few years later a daughter, Zina Presendia Young, was born."

Obviously, LDS Inc. isn't putting the polyandry into detail and makes it sound like Henry Jacobs was a complete deadbeat father - which he wasn't for the times. He eventually died with Zina caring for him in his last hours.

Why these people I'm "from" are revered is beyond me. (Brigham Young, Zina Huntington, Zina Card, Hugh Brown.)

But LDS Inc. capitalizes on their lives for "faith promotion."

Wow. Just wow.

And Henry probably their most pitiable screwed by Joe husband. His life was completely wrecked by Joe and Briggy taking his wife and kids from him.

He is one who tried as best he could to "follow the prophet" and couldn't quite deny himself the love he felt for his first love.

If there is a sadder story in Mormon history let me know it.

I blame Zina ultimately so I don't worship her like my family does. She used her prophetic connections to further her influence in her cult. Most of the polyandrous wives just have pitiful lives after their brush with "The Prophet."

She had rejected JS's proposition when he was alive, but after he was killed, she agreed. BY performed the sealing and then married her for time to one of my male relatives.

Stray Mutt Wrote:
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> She had rejected JS's proposition when he was
> alive, but after he was killed, she agreed.

Why? Was she married at the time of his proposition?

I guess she didn't want to be another of JS's wives. I imagine she got caught up in the post-death swoon, and also figured she wouldn't need to actually be with him, so she agreed to be sealed to him. There were several other posthumous sealings of women to JS. It was the thing to do.

Here's how it went down initially:


In 1839, the Huntington family arrived in Nauvoo, along with daughter, Zina. Within months, Zina’s Mother died from the malaria epidemic which claimed the lives of many of the early Nauvoo settlers. About this same time, Zina met and was courted by Henry B. Jacobs, a handsome and talented musician. Sometime during Henry’s courtship of Zina, Joseph Smith explained to Zina the “principle of plural marriage” and asked her to become one of his wives. Zina remembers the conflict she felt about Joseph’s proposal, and her budding relationship with Henry: “O dear Heaven, grant me wisdom! Help me to know the way. O Lord, my god, let thy will be done and with thine arm around about to guide, shield and direct...” Zina declined Joseph’s proposal and chose to marry Henry. They were married on March 7, 1841.

Zina later wrote, that within months of her marriage to Henry, “[Joseph] sent word to me by my brother, saying, ‘Tell Zina, I put it off and put it off till an angel with a drawn sword stood by me and told me if I did not establish that principle upon the earth I would lose my position and my life’”. Joseph further explained that, “the Lord had made it known to him she was to be his celestial wife.”

Zina chose to obey this commandment and married Joseph on October 27. She later recalled, “When I heard that God had revealed the law of celestial marriag...I obtained a testimony for myself that God had required that order to be established in this church...I made a greater sacrifise than to give my life for I never anticipated again to be looked upon as an honerable woman by those I dearly loved...”. Zina continued, “It was something too sacred to be talked about; it was more to me than life or death. I never breathed it for years”.

cludgie Wrote:
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> ...I never breathed it
> for years”.

Crazy dangerous religious cult of the dead and abuse of the living.

I've read this quote a hundred times. It always tells me the same thing - religion gone crazy.

Funny, I never read the quote or knew she was married to two men at the same time until after I got that book from my sister.

After that my Mormonism was over - completely.

I'm not into ultimate sacrifices for a god I can't even fully believe in. From a young child I never believed my god had a penis.

Elder Berry Wrote:
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> But it is coupled with my Great Aunt Mary's sin of
> omission.

coupled with Joseph Smiths sin of emission

Ba-dum tish