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    Joseph Smith and His Legions
    Joseph Smith and His Legions
    Joseph Smith and His Legions
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    Joseph Smith and His Legions

    By Ray Speckman

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    Vivid, straight forward and amazing is the story of Fanny Adler as it has been passed orally through the years to the eldest of each generation.
    Now in straight-forward language that story, held inviolate for nearly two centuries is told.
    Told by the 6th Great Granddaughter of Fanny Adler, the first plural wife of the Mormon Prophet, Joseph Smith, it details the relationship the prophet had with Fanny when she first moved to the home of the prophet and his wife Emma. Fanny was 14. In Fanny's words, passed from generation to generation, it tells of the bonding and marriage to the prophet at age 16 and at 20, becoming pregnant, how she was forced to leave the Smith home.
    The story follows the life of the prophet as told by Fanny until his death, as she continued to stay in touch with her Mormon friends even though she had left the church.
    It is a work of fiction, based in fact; a page-turning, griping tale.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRay Speckman
    Release dateJun 4, 2013
    ISBN9781301266968
    Joseph Smith and His Legions
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    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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      Joseph Smith and His Legions - Ray Speckman

      JOSEPH SMITH AND HIS LEGIONS

      A DICTATOR PROPHET

      Ray Speckman

      Smashwords edition, copyright 2013

      License notes: This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Brother Hyrum, I do believe, had I been forced to choose but will never, that I would prefer being a General to that of a Prophet.

      Words of Joseph Smith to his brother Hyrum:

      My faithful brother, order the militia to prepare their wives for inspection. I want them all bathed and ready, in my personal quarters...when Emma leaves.

      The prophet to his brother Hyrum in Nauvoo, Illinois.

      PROLOGUE

      It is time to break the chain.

      I am the last of a lineage, the sole descendent of my sixth great-grandmother, Fanny Alger.

      It was Fanny who was born in 1816 who told the story first to her son, my fifth great-grandfather, Jacob. The story has been told to the eldest in each family every generation since then. It has been passed orally to each succeeding generation with a caveat: It can never be told except to the eldest of the following generation and it can never be reduced to writing.

      I am old, the only child of my parents, never married and well past my child-bearing age. It is not relevant but my name is Fan.

      I am breaking a covenant that has been kept for almost two centuries because what I am writing needs to be told.

      My story will not be told in the eloquent, sometimes convoluted prose of the time,

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