FratFiles

• Save Paper

Polygamy Preferred

"Polygamy was a good thing for early Mormon women." This begins an interview with Sarah Brockman (This writer's Grandmother), the ninety-seven year old daughter of a polygamist. " At least 'twas for Aunt Eveline . . . [Papa and Eveline] were married fifty-three years! . . . [Papa] couldn't resist her from the start. Eveline was in the highest grade in the one room school we both [attended]. Papa was our teacher. . .Eveline was almost seventeen when she started earnin' her A's the 'old-fashioned' way. . . . After a few weeks of 'A-earnin,' [Eveline] went away to 'finishing school.' ( . . . [We] would later laugh, in secret, at what she went away to finish.) . . . Seven months later, she came home. The very next day, Mamma found a basket on the front porch with [a baby] Harry inside . . . Mamma had always loved babies, (she had just birth'd her tenth), so she took little Harry in as her own. [she nursed] Harry on one side and my brother, George, on......

View the rest of this paper...

Approximate Word Count: 3382
Approximate Pages: 14 (250 words per double-spaced page)

Similar Essays

1. Polygamy Preferred
   

   Polygamy Preferred Polygamy Preferred "Polygamy was a good thing for early Mormon women." This begins an interview with Sarah Brockman (This writer's Grandmother), the

2. A Critical Analysis Of Polygamy In Islam, And Muhammad Regarding...
   

   Sea Sect (Qumran), and was not widely practiced, esp. among the rabbi's: "But even if polygamy was permitted by tannaitic halakhah, other halakhic systems counseled otherwise.

3. How America Should React To Ho
   

   sexuality, which lays in genes and hardly can be changed. Given a choice many would have preferred not to be homosexual. It is hard to imagine the somebody would voluntary give up

4. How America Should React To Ho
   

   sexuality, which lays in genes and hardly can be changed. Given a choice many would have preferred not to be homosexual. It is hard to imagine the somebody would voluntary give up

5. Polygamous Marriages
   

   in South Africa to give recognition to polygamous marriages. Other such cases where polygamy has been established as precedent can be seen in Khan v Khan , where the court