Connell O'Donovan summarizes interracial marriage incident involving Laura Jane Berry.
Connell O'Donovan, "'I would confine them to their own species': LDS Historical Rhetoric & Praxis Regarding Marriage Between Whites and Blacks," Sunstone West, March 28, 2009, accessed May 3, 2021
Joseph Taylor asked, “Can you give [Laura Berry] any privileges of a like character? The girl is very pretty and quite white and would not be suspected as having tainted blood in her veins unless her parentage was known.” . . That same month Laura Berry polygamously married Hyrum B. Barton and they had a large family together, who all apparently remained faithful Mormons, so John Taylor must have approved of the interracial marriage.