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Show Amanda Barnes Foyal Birthright - page 2 n:ie one other line established to Jacob is the Levitical line of priesthood. 11.ne ~rough the Proi;net Jeremiah to Levi. A second branch through Azan.ah, his brother, and on throuqh their father Hikih 1m t-n TJ:>Ui . T h;mo located ancei descendants < -6France, SpaiJ countries of "Well , if i t were I, it woul dn 't take :rre long to decide whe ther borde;ring up:: to l:::e sealed tony rrother and the Prophet, or tony father and a woman I had never seen." Then I said, "That is your advice?" We can c He said, "Yes, and rrore. 11 Then he said that if there should l:::e a followed eigl mistake made, there is not a man on earth ·who would l:::e rrore r eady studded line~ and anxious to rrake it right than the Prophet Josei;n. Archiba] This counsel was acceptable to all, and President Josei;n F. The Seer, in Smith acted as proxy for the Prophet and got Sister Lucy W. Smith · have kept thj Kirrba.11, the only surviving wife of the Prophet Josefh to stand through his n for AnEnda Ba.mes Smith, and the children were sealed to their who is the parents, Joseph, the Prophet, and Arnanda B. Smith on 22 May 1902. through Anten tip through P. After I had narr ated this sto:ry as above written, I asked Aunt line is 135 g Telitha if she had anyt.l-iing to say. "Do you understand it as I do, Belie, the gr or have I in any way overdrawn this narrative?" She said, "You daughter of J have told the sto:ry better than I could and just as I heard M:>t.1-ier Welch--are al Smith tell it many ti:rres." explanations made copies o In addit titled Sureti ancestors of . other ten Sur, the Bill of R is the founda of London, we Of these :rren these and perl other three. up, I I diSCOVI I have e< ence in Volum them ·or copiei cannot supply these for co~ to CX>ITE. My I Mrs. 198 Pro, Thank you, Vil *** --Written November 8, 1921, by Arnanda Barnes Smith's daughterin-law, Cordelia Thurston Smith, wife of Willard Gilbert Smith, the oldest son of Arnanda and Warren Smith. *** 'Ihe following staterrent was made by Joseph F. Smith, then a counselor and later President of the Church. It can be found in the Journal Histo:ry for February 17, 1882, as well as the Deseret News f or that date; also it was reprinted in Chapter 38 of John A. Widtsoe' s "Jos?ph Smith, Seeker after Truth, Prophet of God" published by De seret News Press in 1951. "The speaker said, perhaps for the first tirre in public, that the woITEn who entered into plural marriage with the Prophet Joseph Smith were shown to hllll and na:rred to hllll as early as 1831, and so:rre of t.hem were given in marriag·e to hllll as early as that date, although it was not then prudent, under the circumstances, to rrake these facts public. And when the lord showed those woITEn to Joseph sorre of them were not even - - .i -- --- - ---•::, - .. - - - - - · ~ - - - - · · ··~~"' ...... J..J.. \.J.J.. ~- -7acquainted with the 01urch , much less hllll. God knew. their hearts , as is proved by the fac t that they have been true and faithful through a l l the t:rying vicis situdes through which they have passed, and that too in the face of a fra.vning world ; they have endured it all, and are today examples of womanhood and puri t y . " This information is a bit as tonishing to us, the early date of 1831, but does shed light on the sub ject and helps us clarif y . reasons why our great-grandrrother Amanda was sealed to the Prophet under her particular circumstances. In the process of checking SOITE other dates for TIE, ny f r iend had discovered that the matter of Amanda's sealing to the Prophet had l:::een questioned by sorre rrernber of the family, and that the papers were then up before the AdjustITEnt Corrmittee for final decision. When he r eturned several weeks l ater, he l earned that the higher authorities have now given this problem thei r thought and prayers, and it was decided once and for all that Arnanda 's sealing to the Prophe t will stand as is, since it was done i n her lifetirre . This decision is gratifying to us, and we know it will l:::e to you, since we had never thought of having the matter placed l:::efore Corrmittee. |
