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Source: Church History Vol. 4 Chapter 25 Page: 452 (~1884)

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452 "I saw them hand him the book, and I am as positive as can be that he never saw it before. He read it and examined it for about an hour and then threw it down, and said he did not believe a word in it."

She further stated that her father in the last years of his life called his family together and told them, that as sure as there was a God in heaven, he never had anything to do in getting up the Book of Mormon. And never saw any such thing as a manuscript written by Solomon Spalding. On being questioned with reference to her knowledge of "sealing" and "polygamy," she said that she lived with her father in Kirtland till the year 1838, when they went to the state of Missouri. That she never heard tell of such a thing as sealing, or polygamy, in Kirtland. We called her attention to the fact that one William Smith, a Campbellite exhorter stated to us in Kirtland that he heard, he thought, that she was sealed to Joseph Smith in Kirtland. She says:

"It is absolutely false; I never heard of such a thing while in Kirtland as sealing."

We asked, "Were you ever at any time or place sealed to Joseph Smith?"

"I was never at any time."

She then said her father went from Missouri to Nauvoo, arriving in Nauvoo in the year 1840. They lived there till the 18th of June, 1844, when her father started with his family to this city, and they arrived here the same day Joseph Smith was killed in Illinois, June 27, 1844. We then asked her:

"When did you first hear of polygamy in Nauvoo?"

She said she never heard of it while they lived in Nauvoo.

"Did you know any person while you lived in Nauvoo who was married to more than one wife, or had more than one wife at the same time?"

"I did not."

"When did you first hear of the so-called revelation on polygamy?"

"I never heard of it until after we came to Pittsburg [Pittsburgh], and some time after; I could not say just how long."

"Did you not hear talk that there was such a thing while you lived in Nauvoo?"

"I never did."

"When did you first hear about sealing?"

"I heard about this first about the year 1842. I believe it was in this year."

"How old were you at this time?"

"I was born in the year 1822."

"What was this sealing, and what was the object of it?"

"I can not say that I ever understood it fully. Can not give the object."

"Was it a state of marriage and did it contemplate living together as husband and wife?"

"I never so understood it."

(page 452)

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