Footnotes
JS described Commerce in summer 1839 as a place that was “literally a wilderness” and was “so unhealthy very few could live there.” In his autobiography, John L. Butler recounted that JS described the Commerce area as “a low marshy wet damp and nasty place.” (Historian’s Office, JS History, Draft Notes, 11 June 1839; Butler, Autobiography, 33.)
Butler, John L. Autobiography, ca. 1859. CHL. MS 2952.
Mace, Autobiography, 31. Mace’s statement is ambiguous as to whether Emma was involved in the blessings given to the sick. For more information on women performing healing blessings, see Derr et al., First Fifty Years of Relief Society, xxiv–xxv, 55, 55n156; and Stapley and Wright, “Female Ritual Healing in Mormonism,” 1–11.
Mace, Wandle. Autobiography, ca. 1890. CHL. MS 1924.
Derr, Jill Mulvay, Carol Cornwall Madsen, Kate Holbrook, and Matthew J. Grow, eds. The First Fifty Years of Relief Society: Key Documents in Latter-day Saint Women’s History. Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2016.
Stapley, Jonathan A., and Kristine Wright. “Female Ritual Healing in Mormonism.” Journal of Mormon History 37, no. 1 (Winter 2011): 1–85.
Historian’s Office, Brigham Young History Drafts, 25–26; Editorial Note preceeding JS journal entry for 8–20 July 1839.
Historian’s Office. Brigham Young History Drafts, 1856–1858. CHL. CR 100 475, box 1, fd. 5.
Tullidge, Women of Mormondom, 214.
Tullidge, Edward W. The Women of Mormondom. New York: Tullidge and Crandall, 1877.
Woodruff, Journal, 12 and 19 July 1839; “The Memoirs of President Joseph Smith,” Saints’ Herald, 20 Nov. 1934, 1479; Historian’s Office, Brigham Young History Drafts, 25.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Saints’ Herald. Independence, MO. 1860–.
Historian’s Office. Brigham Young History Drafts, 1856–1858. CHL. CR 100 475, box 1, fd. 5.
Woodruff, Journal, 22 July 1839; Historian’s Office, Brigham Young History Drafts, 25–26; Mace, Autobiography, 31.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Historian’s Office. Brigham Young History Drafts, 1856–1858. CHL. CR 100 475, box 1, fd. 5.
Mace, Wandle. Autobiography, ca. 1890. CHL. MS 1924.
Woodruff, Journal, 22 July 1839.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
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See 2 Kings 20:1; Isaiah 38:1; Revelation, 8 Mar. 1833 [D&C 90:18]; and Revelation, 6 May 1833 [D&C 93:43].
That is, to purify oneself from within. (See Matthew 23:25–26; and Luke 11:39.)
JS’s journal states that he spent the rest of the week “among the sick, who in general are gaining strength, and recovering health,” and that the next Sunday, 4 August 1839, JS “exhorted the Church at length, concerning the necessity of being righteous and clean at heart before the Lord.” Wilford Woodruff described the 4 August Sunday service as a “meeting of prayer & fasting.” (JS, Journal, 28 July–4 Aug. 1839; Woodruff, Journal, 4 Aug. 1839.)
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
The term destroyer was often used to refer to the devil. In his autobiography, Mace wrote of the spread of disease in Commerce and Montrose in summer 1839, noting that “it seemed, that all the powers of Satan, was at work to destroy this people.” (Mace, Autobiography, 31.)
Mace, Wandle. Autobiography, ca. 1890. CHL. MS 1924.
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