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SALT LAKE CITY — The man in the photograph is Brigham Young, a founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But the face of the woman seated next to him has been scratched out.

"If you really look at his face... it's the closest thing to a smile that you'll ever see on Brigham," said Brent Herridge, a Utah photographer who appraised the Daguerreotype decades ago that sparked his quest to know more about the mystery woman in it.

Herridge is moving ahead with his efforts to try to prove a hypothesis he has about the image: that the woman is a previously unknown wife of the revered church leader. He is now actively looking for the Native American woman's gravesite to prove it.

BuriedTartaria wrote: ↑October 8th, 2023, 11:44 am This isn't typically a topic I'm interested in but for whatever reason, I skimmed part of the article. It mentions her right hand was 'shingled' badly (I'm assuming this means she got a bad case of shingles on her right hand) and this called for one of her fingers to be removed. What kind of numbing agents did they have back then to provide pain relief for something like that?

LDS Physician wrote: ↑October 8th, 2023, 5:09 pm

BuriedTartaria wrote: ↑October 8th, 2023, 11:44 am This isn't typically a topic I'm interested in but for whatever reason, I skimmed part of the article. It mentions her right hand was 'shingled' badly (I'm assuming this means she got a bad case of shingles on her right hand) and this called for one of her fingers to be removed. What kind of numbing agents did they have back then to provide pain relief for something like that?

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