Horny Joe took in a number of foster daughters, some of which he "married". Did he also take in boys?

Not to my knowledge. I think that the girls were there to help Emma out around the house. But JS couldn't control himself I guess... sick.

Joseph and Julia Murdock were born the same day as Emma and Joseph Smith lost both of their stillborn twin babies. The tragedy of the day was compounded by the death of surviving Julia and Joseph's mother.

Faced with caring for two infants without their mother John Murdock offered his twins to the grieving Emma who accepted the infants gladly.

Approximately two years later Joseph Smith Jr. was comforting infant Joseph sickened, according to church history, with measles which claimed the child's life days later.

It has been noted many believe the reason for the child's death was exposure to cold after the older Joseph was dragged from the child's bed by an angry mob led by the brother of very young Nancy Marinda, upon accusations of sexual misconduct with his then pre-teen sister. Accusations, true or false, against Smith would have ended that cold winter night had the angry family been successful in performing the much discussed castration many felt Smith was more than entitled to aready in his Smith personal saga. However, the squeamy attending doctor refused the procedure leaving Smith at liberty to de-tar and feather himself and continue to fly free, so to speak. Years later, Nancy did indeed become another of Joseph Smith's so-called "spiritual" wives with whom he did engage in carnal relations.

The adopted Julia Murdock Smith Dixon Middleton went on to be the only surviving Smith daughter and great comfort and treasured companion of Emma Smith, the first and only legal wife of Joseph Smith.

There are many conflicting accounts of above events including http://www.fourth-millennium.net/family-travels/warren-waste-articles.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Murdock_Smith

Skeptic-o-meter going off, big time:

There is another version of this story:

Joseph Smith was seen, by someone in that room, climbing into a bed that night, then moving on to another bed, in the same room.

The claim is that Joseph often did this, and that is how it was known he would be in that particular room that night, when the mob came calling for him.

The mob suspected him of impropriety with Nancy Marinda Johnson, who was the niece, not sister, of one of the men in that mob. The claim was that he offered plural marriage to her, at age 14, and she declined. She then told her uncle what Smith had said. He and his brother, the girl's other uncle, were FURIOUS with Smith, as they would rightly be.

In addition, Smith and his Danites had apparently written down in a letter that they were planning to take the people's land from them, by force. This secret became know to the men in that mob, whose land was to be taken from them, men who were not going to stand for this.

Coupled with the frenzy the two Johnson men were in, over Nancy Marinda and Smith's coming on to her, and by the apparent truthfulness of both statements with ample evidence for both, they went on to form a vigilante mob, intent on tarring and feathering Smith. Rumor has it they also meant to castrate him, but this was stopped just in time by the doctor among them.

This was not persecution of a religious martyr for his faith or religious belief; this was JS thinking with his dick and his wallet-- and getting caught, both times. He was lucky he lived through it.

Where is the LDS church essay on THAT?

Questions I have:

1) Were both these two little kids, boy and girl, sharing the same bed, or not?

2) Where was Emma? Was she in the room or in the bed of either child?

3) Was the little girl also sick with measles, or not?

I'd also want to know:

1) When Joseph and Emma took in the children, did any money or inheritance, or goods from either the mother's or father's side, come with them?

2) Why this story is always told from the LDS church-approved, faith promoting, omit the whole truth and facts side, where Joseph is so wonderful, only ever out doing good-- but somehow ends up persecuted, side, every single time? Why not from the little girl's, or the other men's side?