Maria Lawrence

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Maria Lawrence (b. December 18, 1823, Pickering Township, Ontario - d.? Nauvoo, Illinois) is recognized as the twenty-fifth woman to marry LDS church founder Joseph Smith, Jr. [1] After Smith's death, Lawrence would go on to become the sixteenth plural wife of LDS Prophet Brigham Young. They divorced in 1845, but remarried the following year. [2]

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  1. ^ The Wives of Joseph Smith: Maria Lawrence
  2. ^ Brigham Young's Wives and his divorce from Eliza Ann Webb