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BY vs Henry Jacobs
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 3:15 pm
by _Scottie
On MAD, I posted that BY forbade Henry Jacobs from ever seeing Zina again after his mission, as I have always learned.
Maklelan's response to me,
Brigham Young never forbade him from seeing his wife, and their marriage ended on its own. He went off and married a few other women before returning to the church and Salt Lake City to spend time with his children before he died. That tall tale was first told by a rabid anti-Mormon in a book entitled The Abominations of Mormonism Exposed, and the journals of other very diligent historians who were at the very prayer meeting where this was said to have taken place show no sign of any statements at all being leveled at Henry Jacobs.
Is this true? Is there no evidence that BY ever forbade Henry from seeing Zina again?
Re: BY vs Henry Jacobs
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 3:51 pm
by _Jason Bourne
Maklen in full of hooey.
Even Allen Wyatts paper at FAIR on this saga does not claim anything like this. Fact is the Zina was married to BY, Henry was sent on a mission and then she moved in with BY and then they never were together after that.
Re: BY vs Henry Jacobs
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 4:08 pm
by _Scottie
Jason Bourne wrote:Maklen in full of hooey.
Even Allen Wyatts paper at FAIR on this saga does not claim anything like this. Fact is the Zina was married to BY, Henry was sent on a mission and then she moved in with BY and then they never were together after that.
Right, but did they correspond?
I had always read that Henry wrote several heartbreaking letters to Zina, but Zina never wrote back.
Re: BY vs Henry Jacobs
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 7:05 pm
by _Jason Bourne
Right, but did they correspond?
I had always read that Henry wrote several heartbreaking letters to Zina, but Zina never wrote back.
Yes Henry sent a number of letters that are heartbreaking-says he misses Zina, loves her, misses his little ones but holds no grudge against Brother Brigham and will try to do what the Lord wants.
Re: BY vs Henry Jacobs
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 8:21 pm
by _Trevor
What a sad story.
Re: BY vs Henry Jacobs
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 11:04 pm
by _harmony
Trevor wrote:What a sad story.
Sad, yes. Abominable, even. But that's what happens when men (and women) dabble in evil.
Re: BY vs Henry Jacobs
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 2:28 am
by _Ray A
Jason Bourne wrote:Yes Henry sent a number of letters that are heartbreaking-says he misses Zina, loves her, misses his little ones but holds no grudge against Brother Brigham and will try to do what the Lord wants.
That episode can be found in
Mormon Polyandry in Nauvoo, from pages 78-82.
Re: BY vs Henry Jacobs
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 4:18 am
by _collegeterrace
Trevor wrote:What a sad story.
And yet people like Jason would gladly send his kids to the school which bears the name of that son of a bitch, Brigham Young.
Re: BY vs Henry Jacobs
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 6:39 am
by _moksha
There must have been something desirous about Zina to make men covet her like that.
I can well understand why these sealings where kept under wraps by the coveters till they reached Utah. I suppose I can also see with social mores being what they were back then, as to why all three men did not simply share Zina and whoever else came their way.
Re: BY vs Henry Jacobs
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 5:57 pm
by _harmony
moksha wrote:There must have been something desirous about Zina to make men covet her like that.
I can well understand why these sealings where kept under wraps by the coveters till they reached Utah. I suppose I can also see with social mores being what they were back then, as to why all three men did not simply share Zina and whoever else came their way.
What we have here is an ambitious woman who was willing to sell her body to the highest bidder... and three men who were more than willing to bid. Henry lost out because he had the least to offer. Love doesn't count for much, when the other guys have power and authority. I wonder how many people back East knew the Zina story?