Footnotes
This serialized history drew on the journals herein beginning with the 4 July 1855 issue of the Deseret News and with the 3 January 1857 issue of the LDS Millennial Star.
The labels on the spines of the four volumes read respectively as follows: “Joseph Smith’s Journal—1842–3 by Willard Richards” (book 1); “Joseph Smith’s Journal by W. Richards 1843” (book 2); “Joseph Smith’s Journal by W. Richards 1843–4” (book 3); and “W. Richards’ Journal 1844 Vol. 4” (book 4). Richards kept JS’s journal in the front of book 4, and after JS’s death Richards kept his own journal in the back of the volume.
“Schedule of Church Records, Nauvoo 1846,” [1], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
“Inventory. Historian’s Office. 4th April 1855,” [1]; “Contents of the Historian and Recorder’s Office G. S. L. City July 1858,” 2; “Index of Records and Journals in the Historian’s Office 1878,” [11]–[12], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL; Johnson, Register of the Joseph Smith Collection, 7.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
Johnson, Jeffery O. Register of the Joseph Smith Collection in the Church Archives, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City: Historical Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1973.
Footnotes
Historical Introduction to JS, Journal, Dec. 1841–Dec. 1842.
Source Note to JS, Journal, 1835–1836; Source Note to JS, Journal, Mar.–Sept. 1838.
See Appendix 3.
An ordinance passed a month earlier stipulated that “the Judges of the Election may, if they shall deem it necessary, for the purpose of receiving the Votes of all the electors wishing to vote; postpone the closing of the Polls, until twelve O Clock at night.” According to Wilford Woodruff, the election was “a warm contest . . . esspecially in the evening.” (Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 14 Jan. 1843, 133; Woodruff, Journal, 6–11 Feb. 1843.)
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
George W. Harris was made an alderman on 30 October 1841. Although he is not identified as having been reelected in the 6 February 1843 election, he continued to serve in this position. (“City Election,” The Wasp, 8 Feb. 1843, [2]; JS, Journal, 6 Feb. 1843; see also Nauvoo City Council attendance records, 11 Feb. 1843, Nauvoo, IL, Records, CHL.)
The Wasp. Nauvoo, IL. Apr. 1842–Apr. 1843.
Nauvoo, IL. Records, 1841–1845. CHL. MS 16800.
Granger was nearly forty-nine at the time. Helen Mar Whitney also referred to her as “Aunt Sabry Granger.” (Helen Mar Whitney, “Travels beyond the Mississippi,” Woman’s Exponent, 1 Sept. 1884, 13:58.)
Woman’s Exponent. Salt Lake City. 1872–1914.