Marinda Nancy Johnson (1815-1886)

Marriage to Joseph Smith
While still married to Orson Hyde, Marinda was married to Joseph Smith in 1842, at age 27.

Jon Krakauer wrote in Under the Banner of Heaven: "In the summer of 1831 the Johnson family took Joseph and Emma Smith into their home as boarders, and soon thereafter the prophet purportedly bedded young Marinda. Unfortunately, the liaison did not go unnoticed, and a gang of indignant Ohioans—including a number of Mormons—resolved to castrate Joseph so that he would be disinclined to commit such acts of depravity in the future."

Krakauer 2003, pp. 120. Krakauer quotes Miranda's older brother Luke Johnson: "[The mob] had Dr. Dennison there to perform the operation [of castration]; but when he saw the Prophet stripped and stretched on the plank, his heart failed him and he refused to operate."