Joseph Smith Is Tarred and Feathered for His Improper Relationship With 16 Year-Old Nancy Marinda Johnson

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Painted nighttime scene in a dimly lit barnyard. In the center, Joseph Smith is smeared with black tar and struggles to escape as an angry mob led by Eli Johnson dumps a bag of feathers over him. Smith reaches out toward 16 year-old Nancy Marinda Johnson, with whom he has had an improper relationship. Marinda stands with her hands raised to her face in shame.

A painted dramatization of the night of March 24, 1832, when a mob dragged Joseph Smith from the Johnson farmhouse in Hiram, Ohio and tarred and feathered him in the yard. According to multiple period accounts, the attack was incited by Eli Johnson, who discovered Smith's improper relationship with his 16-year-old sister Nancy Marinda Johnson; Eli reportedly demanded that the mob castrate Smith, and a physician brought along for that purpose refused. Marinda was later sealed to Joseph Smith as a plural wife.

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