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Custer, Fanny Alger Smith, 1816-1889


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    • Alger, Fanny W., 1816-1889
    • Alger, Fanny, 1816-1889
    • Smith, Fanny Alger, 1816-1889

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      • found: Journal of Mormon history, spring 1996:page 172 (Fanny Alger Smith Custer; November 1836 marries Mr Solomon Custer and Miss Fanny Alger; one of Joseph Smith's earliest plural wives) page 173 (abandoned marriage to Joseph Smith for a secular union with Solomon Custer, a non-Mormon; Fanny Alger) page 177 (born 20 September 1816 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts to Samuel Alger and Clarissa Hancock Alger; family moved to Lebanon Township, Ashtabula, Ohio around 1820; family became Mormons in Nobember 1830 in Mayfield, 10 miles southwest of Kirtland [Ohio]) page 178 (Fanny united to Joseph Smith, Jr. in 1833, perhaps the first plural marriage in Mormon history) (page 204 (Solomon Custer died 27 March 1885 while living in Dublion [Indiana]; unable to determine Fanny's death date; Fanny lived for more than forty years as a non-Mormon raising a family of five with Solomon Custer)
      • found: The Joseph Smith Papers, 2004(Custer, Fanny Alger Smith)
      • found: Studies in Mormon history, 1830-1997 : an indexed bibliography, 2000:p. 479(Alger, Fanny: Compton T., "Fanny Alger Smith Custer" (Journal of Mormon History, 1996))
      • found: Fanny Alger : the first plural wife of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr. A preliminary genealogical report, 1986(Fanny W. Alger Born 30 Sep 1816, Bloomfield, Essex N.J....Married to Joseph Smith, the prophet/Solomon Custer)
      • found: Wikipedia, website viewed 20 May 2013(Fanny Alger; b. to Samueal and Clarissa Hancock Alger, September 20, 1816, in Rehoboth, Bristol County Massachusetts; moved to Ashtabula, Ohio and then to Mayfield, Cuyahoga County, Ohio; In 1830 her parents baptized into the Mormon Church; In September 1836 after Fanny had spent some time as a teenage servant in the home of Joseph and Emma Smith, the Algers left Kirtland to go to Missouri; Algers stopped in Dublin, Wayne County, Indiana where Fanny met and married Solomon Custer, a non-Mormon, on November 16, 1838; the Custers remained in Indiana; she died at the home of her son in Indianapolis on November 29, 1889; all second-hand witnesses, Mormon and non-Mormon, agreed that Smith had married Alger as a plural wife)

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      • 2013-05-28: new
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