alanmolstad
02-01-2016, 07:36 AM
A second method Smith used to get females to say yes to his proposals was to send family males on a mission that might or did object to his advances.
For example, unlike his approach of obtaining parental permission of the Whitney's, Kimball's, and the Woodworth's, before asking for their young daughters hand in marriage, Smith directly approached young Lucy Walker only after sending her father, John Walker, on a mission.[57]
He also sent Horace Whitney on a mission because he felt that Horace was too close to his sister Sarah Ann, and would oppose the marriage.[58]
Smith married Marinda Nancy Johnson Hyde, a year before her husband Orson, an Apostle, returned from his mission.[59]
He also approached Sarah Pratt while her husband Orson, an Apostle, was on a mission.[60]
http://mormonthink.com/grant6.htm
For example, unlike his approach of obtaining parental permission of the Whitney's, Kimball's, and the Woodworth's, before asking for their young daughters hand in marriage, Smith directly approached young Lucy Walker only after sending her father, John Walker, on a mission.[57]
He also sent Horace Whitney on a mission because he felt that Horace was too close to his sister Sarah Ann, and would oppose the marriage.[58]
Smith married Marinda Nancy Johnson Hyde, a year before her husband Orson, an Apostle, returned from his mission.[59]
He also approached Sarah Pratt while her husband Orson, an Apostle, was on a mission.[60]
http://mormonthink.com/grant6.htm