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dydimus
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Date: April 20, 2015 11:08PM
What gives the Corporation the right to say anything on the choice of a woman to get artificial insemination when they told my great, great grandmother to become 2nd wife to a man and have 7 more children with him, yet have her kids keep her first husbands last name?
For security from the law, the children grew up under the name of Westover. On the ward records, in school, etc., they would be called by either name, but generally were called Westover and Joanna was often spoken of as "Widow Westover". The children respected him, but usually spoke of him as Brother DeSpain. Eventually the family was advised by church authorities to continue using the name of Westover, as they were all born in the covenant to their mother and her first husband, Lycurgus Westover.
There were seven children born of this union of Joanna and Henry:
• John Lycurgus was given the second name of Lycurgus, Joanna’s first husband, and was born 4 Oct 1880 in St. Joseph
• Mary Sophia was born about two years later, 8 Oct 1882, in Grantsville in her grandparents' home.
• Amelia Christina was born 29 June 1885.
• Electa Drucilla on Mary's birthday, 8 Oct 1887.
• Emma Octavia was born 12 Oct 1889.
• The two younger boys, Albert Oscar and Franz Henry were born 9 Oct 1893 and 10 July 1896. All but Mary were born in St Joseph.
http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1547597,1547597#msg-1547597So basically Brother Despain was nothing but a sperm donor, because he wasn't around, He lived in Heber and was on Indian Missions except when he needed to bed the widow Westover.
https://familysearch.org/photos/stories/7161729?returnLabel=Sven%20Eriksson%20(KWJN-HDS)&returnUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffamilysearch.org%2Ftree%2F%23view%3Dancestor%26person%3DKWJN-HDS%26spouse%3DKWJN-HD9%26parents%3DKWV9-BBF_LZ22-GKC%26section%3Dmemories