By: Ardis E. Parshall - October 08, 2018 .. Jane Manning James, free black woman, once forgotten and now well loved early Church member, and Emma Smith, wife of Joseph Smith, once scorned for “keeping Joseph’s children out of the Church” but now better understood and respected, were friends. The breadth of their friendship, the depth of their faith in God that sustained them after the murder of Joseph Smith, is the subject of the n...
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