Footnotes

1. [1]

   At the conclusion of Martha Coray’s inscription of a circa 19 July 1840 discourse, there is a note stating that “on this day” John Smith was “publicly appointed” president of the stake in Macedonia, Illinois. Smith was appointed to this position on 24 September 1843. This was likely the date that Coray expanded her contemporaneous rough notes of the 1840 sermon into her more polished account. While it is possible that Coray inscribed the polished expanded version in the reverse portion of this physical notebook a decade before Howard Coray began using the book, it is perhaps more likely that Martha Coray copied the account, with its accompanying note about John Smith, from an earlier, nonextant source into the notebook around 1853 or 1854. (Coray and Coray, Notebook, verso, [22]; and Macedonia Branch, Record, 21 Sept. 1843; see also Historical Introduction to Discourse, ca. 19 July 1840.)

   Coray, Martha Jane Knowlton, and Howard Coray. Notebook, ca. 1853–1855. CHL.

   Macedonia Branch, Record / “A Record of the Chur[c]h of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints in Macedonia (Also Called Ramus),” 1839–1850. CHL. LR 11808 21.

2. [2]

   See Ehat and Cook, Words of Joseph Smith, 419n2; Jessee, “Joseph Smith’s 19 July 1840 Discourse,” 390n1; and the full bibliographic entry for Howard Coray and Martha Jane Knowlton Coray, Notebook, ca. 1853–ca. 1855, in the CHL catalog.

   Ehat, Andrew F., and Lyndon W. Cook, eds. The Words of Joseph Smith: The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1980.

   Jessee, Dean C. “Joseph Smith’s 19 July 1840 Discourse.” BYU Studies 19, no. 3 (Spring 1979): 390–394.