At the age of 14, Helen Mar Kimball’s father, Heber C. Kimball, and her mother, Vilate, approached their only daughter with news of a revelation. The prophet of their new faith, Joseph Smith, has selected Helen to be one of his plural wives. She was given 24 hours to decide if she would obey and was informed that an angel with a flaming sword awaited their family should she choose incorrectly. And thus she became the second 14 year old wedded to Joseph Smith Jr. – a lamb sacrificed by her own Polygamous Parents. For the rest of her life she would pine for the youthful innocence and freedom that was stolen from her as evidenced by the following poem she wrote as an elderly woman:

Thy happy dreams all o’er thou’st doom’d also to be
 Bar’d out from social scenes by this thy destiny,
 And o’er thy sad’nd mem’ries of sweet departed joys
Thy sicken’d heart will brood and imagine future woes,
And like a fetter’d bird with wild and longing heart,
Thou’lt dayly pine for freedom and murmor at thy lot; — Helen Mar Kimball