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?
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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.
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.
If there's one thing I've learned from this board, it's that consensual sex with multiple partners is okay unless God commands it. - Abman
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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.
“I was hooked from the start,” Snoop Dogg said. “We talked about the purpose of life, played Mousetrap, and ate brownies. The kids thought it was off the hook, for real.”
Sad, yes. Abominable, even. But that's what happens when men (and women) dabble in evil.
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.
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.
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.
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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.
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?
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.