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baura
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Date: September 28, 2011 05:01AM
Elder Berry posted an obituary about a relative in a different thread here:
http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,305169,305471#msg-305471The link to the obit is
http://www.heraldextra.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/article_cce967e7-08dd-5b63-a6a1-8fbb0061c40e.htmlThe obit mentions a book, "The Four Zinas" since the deceased wrote it. It mentions:
"... her great-grandmother, Zina Diantha Huntington Smith Young, who was married to Joseph Smith and then to Brigham Young,..."
It gives Zina's maiden name, "Huntington" followed by the names "Smith" and "Young." What it doesn't give is the name of her only LEGAL marriage which was to Henry Jacobs. The fact that she was LEGALLY married to Jacobs doesn't merit mention only her ILLEGAL marriages to Smith and Young. After all, they were the big honchos who could steal other mens' wives and then have sex with them. Zina bore two children to Brigham Young although she was legally married to Henry Jacobs.
Henry Jacobs, who had his wife "stolen" from him by Brigham Young never got over it. He was a faithful Mormon all his life but wrote letters expressing how deeply he missed Zina and his children who were also taken over by Brigham.
On 2 September 1852 Jacobs wrote: "O how happy I should be if I only could see you and the little children, bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh." . . . "I am unhappy, there is no peace for poor me, my pleasure is you, my comfort has vanished.... O Zina, can I ever, will I ever get you again, answer the question please."
On another occasion Henry wrote his legal wife (who was living with another man, Brigham Young) a valentine stating:
"Zina my mind never will change from Worlds without Ends, no never, the same affection is there and never can be moved I do not murmur nor complain of the handlings of God no verily, no but I feel alone and no one to speak to, to call my own. I feel like a lamb without a mother, I do not blame any person or persons, no--May the Lord our Father bless Brother Brigham and all purtains unto him forever. Tell him for me I have no feelings against him nor never had, all is right according to the Law of the Celestial Kingdom of our god Joseph [Smith]."
So a faithful Mormon has his legal wife stolen by Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. Then he is later given the indignity of not even being mentioned when her extended married name is used in memory of her life.