Joseph Smith Takes 14 Year-Old Helen Mar Kimball as One of His Many Plural Wives

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Oil-painted portrait of 14 year-old Helen Mar Kimball in a blue mid-19th-century dress with a white lace collar and cuffs, holding a small bouquet of flowers, and expressing a sad, downcast appearance. She stands beside 37 year-old Joseph Smith, to whom she has recently been plural married. Smith wears a black formal coat, vest, white shirt, and black bow tie.

A painted depiction of 14 year-old Helen Mar Kimball standing beside 37 year-old Joseph Smith around the time of her sealing to him in May 1843 in Nauvoo, Illinois. Helen, the daughter of Latter-day Saint apostle Heber C. Kimball, was one of the youngest of Joseph Smith's plural wives; in memoirs written later in life she described her conflicted feelings about the marriage.

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