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Show 180 church callings. Also, Maggie had a brother-in-law who lived in Centerville, the community just north of Salt Lake where Roberts' families resided. Roberts did not undertake this third marriage casually. Madsen said that in marrying Maggie, Roberts "proved his commitment to principle and his hostility to unconstitutional harassment." "Only weeks after his imprisonment for co-habitation, he undertook a third family by marrying Margaret Shipp;...Roberts had summarized his intentions with, 'I will not abandon these women even if the church tells me to.'...it cost him the support of his church, his Q state, and his nation." Who were Margaret's new sister wives? By what characteristics did they enhance their marriages? This is vital information, for it will color all of Maggie's remaining years, just as her sister wives in her marriage with Milford colored those years. Madsen tells us that Louisa, coming from a home of culture, had an intellect to match her husband's and was "confident, decisive, and outspoken," as well as being three years his senior. Celia, from a modest home where she had the care of an ailing mother from the tender age of five, was Roberts' best help in polishing his writings. Quiet, home-loving, patient to a fault, she was plagued by "anxieties which only her faith and prayer could subdue." (Sounds like another Ellis!) She was a former student of Roberts and six years younger than he. Louisa and Celia were "slight in build" and Maggie was |