Custer, Fanny Alger Smith, 1816-1889

LC control no.	no2013057738
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Custer, Fanny Alger Smith, 1816-1889 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Alger, Fanny W., 1816-1889 Alger, Fanny, 1816-1889 Smith, Fanny Alger, 1816-1889
Located	Rehoboth, Mass. Lebanon, Ohio Mayfield, Ohio Dublin, Ind. Indianapolis, Ind.
Birth date	18160920
Death date	18891129
Place of birth	Rehoboth, Mass.
Place of death	Indianapolis, Ind.
Affiliation	Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Found in	Journal of Mormon history, spring 1996: page 172 (Fanny Alger Smith Custer; November 1836 marries Mr Solomon Custer and Miss Fanny Alger; one of Joseph Smith's earliest plural wives) page 173 (abandoned marriage to Joseph Smith for a secular union with Solomon Custer, a non-Mormon; Fanny Alger) page 177 (born 20 September 1816 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts to Samuel Alger and Clarissa Hancock Alger; family moved to Lebanon Township, Ashtabula, Ohio around 1820; family became Mormons in Nobember 1830 in Mayfield, 10 miles southwest of Kirtland [Ohio]) page 178 (Fanny united to Joseph Smith, Jr. in 1833, perhaps the first plural marriage in Mormon history) (page 204 (Solomon Custer died 27 March 1885 while living in Dublion [Indiana]; unable to determine Fanny's death date; Fanny lived for more than forty years as a non-Mormon raising a family of five with Solomon Custer) The Joseph Smith Papers, 2004 (Custer, Fanny Alger Smith) Studies in Mormon history, 1830-1997 : an indexed bibliography, 2000: p. 479(Alger, Fanny: Compton T., "Fanny Alger Smith Custer" (Journal of Mormon History, 1996)) Fanny Alger : the first plural wife of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr. A preliminary genealogical report, 1986 (Fanny W. Alger Born 30 Sep 1816, Bloomfield, Essex N.J....Married to Joseph Smith, the prophet/Solomon Custer) Wikipedia, website viewed 20 May 2013 (Fanny Alger; b. to Samueal and Clarissa Hancock Alger, September 20, 1816, in Rehoboth, Bristol County Massachusetts; moved to Ashtabula, Ohio and then to Mayfield, Cuyahoga County, Ohio; In 1830 her parents baptized into the Mormon Church; In September 1836 after Fanny had spent some time as a teenage servant in the home of Joseph and Emma Smith, the Algers left Kirtland to go to Missouri; Algers stopped in Dublin, Wayne County, Indiana where Fanny met and married Solomon Custer, a non-Mormon, on November 16, 1838; the Custers remained in Indiana; she died at the home of her son in Indianapolis on November 29, 1889; all second-hand witnesses, Mormon and non-Mormon, agreed that Smith had married Alger as a plural wife)
Associated language	eng