Emma Smith, The First Wife And Co-Conspirator, a Novelette in the Series, The Wives of Joseph Smith
By Ray Speckman
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Emma Smith, in her own words, admits the creation of a hoax with her husband Joseph Smith, Jr. She details how two ambitious and creative young people concocted a lie that lead to a series of lies that created the Book of Mormon and led to the establishment of a religion, The Later Day Saints. She bares her heart and soul, confessing to her complicity not only in writing of the Book of Mormon but her knowledge and embracing the taking of other woman as plural wives of her husband, the prophet. Historically correct but a work of fiction it is an engrossing revelation and confession that but for being invention could be true.
Ray Speckman
Ray Speckman has spent the largest part of his entire life traveling the roads less traveled, smelling each rose (and yes an occasional dandelion) he passes.He admits to being nosey and his brain is like a sponge always wanting more information.He is a widower. He has two children.Ray lived at Missouri's Lake of the Ozarks for many years where he was involved in the newspaper and radio business, taught at Columbia College at the lake, owned a restaurant and was involved in many philantrophic and community activities.Ray also produced and hosted a decade long television program, Ozark Daze on the Columbia, Missouri NBC affilliate, KOMU-TV. Ray also produced historically based documentaries for regional and national distribution.Today he resides near the Lake with a widow, Joyce Mitchell who he smiles and refers to as "my sugar momma." He also says they live "comfortably in sin as mature grandparents."Together they have a boutique shop that also sells antiques and wines in Versailles, Missouri.Ray and Joyce travel extensively and together enjoy the backroads and new people, places and opportunities together.Ray is compiling, updating and discovering new adventures for his continuing work of Ebooks that has published now on Amazon/Kindle and Smashwords.He also has published Ebooks "Stranger in the Mirror" detailing the strength of his wife Marti as she struggled with cancer.
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Emma Smith, The First Wife And Co-Conspirator, a Novelette in the Series, The Wives of Joseph Smith - Ray Speckman
EMMA SMITH
The First Wife And Co-conspirator
A Novelette in the Series,
The Wives of Joseph Smith
By Ray Speckman
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Contents
Authors Introduction
I: Emma Smith
II: In The Beginning
III: No Ordinary Man
IV: The Plan
V: Aiders And Abettors
VI: Growth And Greed
VII: The Far West
VIII: Nauvoo
IX: Joseph And His Wives
X: The Cowardly Martyr
XI: New Life And New Normalancy
Author’s Notes
Authors Introduction
Emma Smith
The Wives of Joseph Smith
Emma Hale was Joseph Smith’s first wife.
Historians (and the Mormon Church) agree that Smith married to more than 30 others.
She denied to her death in 1879 that she knew of Smith’s multiple marriages.
Emma’s own words, written before her death, reveal she had lied.
This is a historically correct, first person novelette, of her life.
It is a revelation.
I
EMMA SMITH
My father’s admonishment:
"[I believe] the whole Book of Mormon
(so called) is a silly fabrication of falsehood and wickedness, got up for speculation, and with a design to dupe the credulous and unwary - and in order that its fabricators might live upon the spoils of those who swallowed the deception." Affidavit of Isaac Hale, March 20, 1834 affirmed to Charles Dimon, Justice of the Peace.
I need to write this.
I want my conscience to be as clear as possible.
If there be a God, and there is a Heaven, and if there is a celestial reuniting in Heaven, I will know by the time this is read. Or could we have been like all the other preachers, selling tickets to heaven?
This writing will be sealed, given to my eldest, and then passed to the eldest of each succeeding generation. My descendent that shall be in possession of the sealed envelope June 1, 1979 shall make this writing public.
I write from my heart, filled with guilt as it is, not to expunge the indiscretions, but to finally let the truth be told.
During my life, while wed to Joseph Smith,