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Helen Mar Kimball was one of the plural wives of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. She was sealed to him when she was 14 and later married Horace Whitney, with whom she had 11 children.
Helen Mar Kimball was sealed to Joseph Smith when she was 14. The marriage was arranged by her father and was apparently not consummated. As an adult, Helen was a fierce defender of both Joseph Smith and plural marriage.
Born in 1828 to Heber C. and Vilate Murray Kimball, Helen Mar Kimball witnessed many of the early scenes of the Restoration. When she was three, her parents were baptized alongside close friends in Brigham Young’s family. The two families were “like one,” Helen later recalled.
Helen Mar Kimball was only fourteen when her father offered her to Joseph Smith as a plural wife in 1843. She faced persecution, illness and grief, but eventually embraced the celestial principle of polygamy and wrote a poem about her experience.
Helen Mar was a leading woman in nine-teenth-century Mormonism. She was the daughter of First Presidency counselor Heber C. Kimball and had also been one of the wives of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon Church) founder Joseph Smith, Jr., in Nauvoo, Illinois.
Helen Mar Kimball. The age of Joseph Smith's wives. Divine manifestations to plural wives and families. What were the circumstances surrounding the sealing of Helen Mar Kimball to Joseph Smith? Helen’s father, Heber C. Kimball, had the most active part in bringing Helen and Joseph together.
22 Aug. 1828–15 Nov. 1896. Born in Mendon, Monroe Co., New York. Daughter of Heber C. Kimball and Vilate Murray. Moved to Kirtland, Geauga Co., Ohio, fall 1833.
