Emma and Joseph Smith

Emma was the wife of Joseph, but their relationship has not been studied very well.

Joseph was the center of attention and intended to say that way. Emma was always in his shadow. This true of the wife of any famous man. There was always limited space in the spotlight.

When Joseph was killed, she had to update herself, and she did not do this very well.

This is always the case with any widow, but the widow of a famous man has an especially hard time of it.

What she was without him becomes painfully obvious, and many widows kill themselves, as a solution. In many cultures, this is mandatory.

Emma lived in what was left of her husband's last town: Nauvoo Illinois. She, and her second husband, built a hotel out of these ruins, and she died there. But this business failed and the property (the Nauvoo House) was sold at a tax auction.