Sylvia Porter Sessions
31 July 1818
Newry, Oxford, Maine, USA
—
12 April 1882
Bountiful, Davis, Utah, USA
Sylvia Lyons
Sylvia P. Lyons
Sylva Porter Sessions
Lydia P. Smith
Sylvia P. Lyona
Sylvia Porter Sessions Smith
Sylva Porter Sessions
Sylvia Porter Sessions
Member of Anointed Quorum, admitted Jan-Mar 1845 (Anderson/Berger-AQ). Quinn notes, “Sylvia P. Sessions (Lyon, Smith, Kimall) received her second anointing with Heber C. Kimball, but apparently not [at] a meeting of the Anointed Quorum.”
Place: Nauvoo Temple, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)
Name as Performed: Sylvia P. Lyons
This marriage has 6 child(ren) in the database
Place: Far West, Caldwell, Missouri, USA
Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
Officiator: Amasa Mason Lyman
Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA (UVA)
Spouse Proxy: Heber Chase Kimball
Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA (UVA)
Place: Nauvoo Temple, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)
Officiator: Amasa Mason Lyman
Spouse Proxy: Heber Chase Kimball
Name as Sealed: Sylvia Porter Sessions
Place: Nauvoo Temple, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)
Officiator: Amasa Mason Lyman
Name as Sealed: Sylvia Porter Sessions Smith
Place: Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa, USA
Place: Far West, Caldwell, Missouri
Officiator: Joseph Smith
Hales http://josephsmithspolygamy.org/history-2/plural-wives-overview/sylvia-sessions/ the assistance of the affidavit books, other sources must be consulted. In a document undoubtedly used to write his 1887 Historical Record article on plural marriage, independent historian Andrew Jenson referred to Sylvia as a “formerly the wife of Windsor Lyons.”15 He also penned: “Sessions, Sylvia Porter, wife of Winsor [sic] Palmer Lyon, was born July 31, 1818. . . . [She] Became a convert to ‘Mormonism’ and was married to Mr. Lyons – When he left the Church she was sealed to the Prophet Joseph Smith.”16 A second corroboration is found in the 1915 statement from Josephine. She remembered her mother also “told me that I was the daughter of the Prophet Joseph Smith, she having been sealed to the Prophet at the time that her husband Mr. Lyon was out of fellowship with the Church.” 17 Accordingly, these documents place the sealing after Windsor’s excommunication. Windsor had a falling out with Stake President William Marks over a financial negotiation in the fall of 1842. In the end, Windsor sued Marks in the civil courts—a violation of Church standards since such matters were to be resolved between members within the Church. In response, Marks brought Windsor up for a Church court. On 19 November 1842, Windsor was excommunicated and left Nauvoo for a few weeks.18 Currently, no documentation of a legal divorce between Windsor and Sylvia after his excommunication has been found.
Birth Date: 04 September 1847
Death Date: 13 December 1831
Birth Date: 08 August 1848
Death Date: 21 April 1850
Birth Date: 08 February 1844
Death Date: 30 May 1924
Birth Date: 11 June 1841
Death Date: 27 January 1844
Birth Date: 24 December 1842
Death Date: 25 December 1842
Birth Date: 02 July 1839
Death Date: 19 March 1842
Start Date: 24 March 1842
Specific Known Date
Notes: Member of FRSN, admitted 24 Mar 1842 as Sylvia Lyons (Black).