Posted by:
DishyDoodle
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Date: August 22, 2013 01:05PM
I read through my grandmother's journal, and found her stories of daily life experiences so sad.
She wrote of a respect for my great grandfather, but not knowing him or spending time with him. Great grandmother was his 3rd of 5 wives. All of the women worked, the children too. Life was more harsh than those of non-polygamous LDS families then, but she kept mentioning that it was for the greater glory in heaven.
Does anyone else have a record of their polygamous ancestors life NOT being about the women needing to be taken care of, as the church teaches?
This was clearly that my great grandfather was a man of standing in the early church ("having done a great mission work to the Indians") and was entitled to have more wives than others.