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|subject=Joseph Smith’s Pre-Nauvoo Reputation--Clarissa Reed Hancock  | |subject=Joseph Smith’s Pre-Nauvoo Reputation--Clarissa Reed Hancock  | ||
|link=http://josephsmithspolygamy.org  | |link=http://josephsmithspolygamy.org/changes-in-may-1843/  | ||
|summary=It is very unlikely that Clarissa was a plural wife of Joseph. Todd Compton: “Brodie posits a union between Joseph and Clarissa; however, I am aware of no evidence for any such relationship.”<ref>Todd Compton, “Fanny Alger Smith Custer Mormonism’s First Plural Wife?,” ''Journal of Mormon History'' 22/1 (Spring 1996):189n50.</ref> }}  | |summary=It is very unlikely that Clarissa was a plural wife of Joseph. Todd Compton: “Brodie posits a union between Joseph and Clarissa; however, I am aware of no evidence for any such relationship.”<ref>Todd Compton, “Fanny Alger Smith Custer Mormonism’s First Plural Wife?,” ''Journal of Mormon History'' 22/1 (Spring 1996):189n50.</ref> }}  | ||
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|subject=Were There Other Polygamous Marriages Prior to Nauvoo?—Clarissa Reed Hancock  | |subject=Were There Other Polygamous Marriages Prior to Nauvoo?—Clarissa Reed Hancock  | ||
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Summary: It is very unlikely that Clarissa was a plural wife of Joseph. Todd Compton: “Brodie posits a union between Joseph and Clarissa; however, I am aware of no evidence for any such relationship.”[1]
 
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