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Podcast: Queens of the Mines
Episode: Ina Coolbrith
Description: When Agnes Moulton Coolbrith joined the Mormon Church in Boston in 1832, she met and married Prophet Don Carlos Smith, the brother of Joseph Smith, founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. There, at the first Mormon settlement, Agnes gave birth to three daughters. The youngest was Josephine Donna Smith, born 1841. Only four months after Josephine Donna Smith’s birth, Don Carlos Smith died of malaria. In spite of Don Carlos being a bitter opposer of the ‘spiritual wife’ doctrine, Agnes was almost immediately remarried to her late husband’s brother, Joseph Smith in 1842, making her his probably seventh...