Fisher, Josephine Rosetta, a daughter of Sylvia Porter Session Lyon, was born in Nauvoo, Ill, Feb. 8, 1844, and when Mr. Lyon, her mother’s husband died in Iowa, she was about five years old. Later her mother married Ezekiel Clark, a non-Mormon, who remained in the States when her mother migrated to Utah in 1854, taking her daughter Josephine R. and three children by Clark with her. Josephine was ten years old when she located in Bountiful, where she grew up and when 19 ½ years old she was married to John Fisher Aug. 15, 1863, John Straker [sp?] performing the marriage ceremony. She is the mother of ten children, five whom were still living in 1915. Her husband died Oct. 23, 1905 at Bountiful. On the 24th of February, 1915, Elder Andrew Jenson, Pres. Joseph H. Grant and Irvin Frederich Fisher (son of Sister Fisher) visited Sister Fisher at her home at Bountiful, on which occasion she gave the following testimony:
Just prior to my mothers death in 1882 she called me to her bedside and told me that her days on earth were about numbered and before she passed away from mortality she desired to tell me something which she had kept as an entire secret fro me and from others until no but which she now desired to communicate to me. She then 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 had was out of fellowship with the Church. She also told me that she was sealed to the Prophet about the same time that Zina D. Huntington and Eliza R. Snow were thus sealed. In conclusion mother told me not to make her statement to me too public, as it might cause trouble and arouse unpleasant curiosity. I have followed her advice, and I am relating the facts to-day practically the first time, responding to the ^request^ desire or desire of one of the assistant Church Historians.
Singed in the presence of Jos H Grant, I.F. Fisher, Andrew Jenson
[signed] Josephine R. Fisher
Bountiful, Utah, Feb. 24, 1915