Footnotes
JS, Journal, 29 June 1842; “Clayton, William,” in Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, 1:718.
Jenson, Andrew. Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 4 vols. Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson History Co., 1901–1936.
See the full bibliographic entry for Helen Vilate Bourne Fleming, Collection, 1836–1963, in the CHL catalog.
Footnotes
Adams was in Nauvoo until at least 29 May 1843. (JS, Journal, 29 May 1843.)
There is some discrepancy about Walker’s birthdate. Her obituary gives a birthdate of 15 August 1831, while her death certificate has 2 August 1831. A family history gives the date as 2 August 1832. (“‘Aunt Jane’ Smith of Farmington Dead,” Davis County Clipper [Bountiful, UT], 29 Mar. 1912, [2]; Death Certificate for Jane Walker Smith, Farmington, Davis Co., UT, 23 Mar. 1912, Utah Death Certificates, 1905–1967, Utah State Archives, Salt Lake City; Walker and Stevenson, Ancestry and Descendants, 58; see also Jane Walker Smith, Autobiography, [3]; and Tidwell, “Life Sketches of Jane Walker Smith,” [3].)
Davis County Clipper. Bountiful, UT. 1892–.
Utah Death Certificates, 1905–1967 / Utah Department of Health, Office of Vital Records and Statistics, Death Certificates, 1905–1967. Utah State Archives Series 81448. Utah State Archives, Salt Lake City. Available at https://archives.utah.gov/.
Walker, Rodney Wilson, and Noel C. Stevenson. Ancestry and Descendants of John Walker, 1794–1869. 2nd ed. Salt Lake City: John Walker Family Organization, 1985.
Smith, Jane Walker. Autobiography, ca. 1900. Typescript and photocopy. BYU.
Tidwell, Zelda Annetta Elison, comp. “Life Sketches of Jane Walker Smith, Wife of Lot Smith and Reminescenses of the Prophet Joseph Smith by Jane Walker Smith,” no date. Typescript. Private possession. Available at https://www.familysearch.org/photos /artifacts/10448453.
Walker and Stevenson, Ancestry and Descendants, 38.
Walker, Rodney Wilson, and Noel C. Stevenson. Ancestry and Descendants of John Walker, 1794–1869. 2nd ed. Salt Lake City: John Walker Family Organization, 1985.
JS, Journal, 16 June 1843; see also Historical Introduction to Affidavit, 24 June 1843.
Clayton, Journal, 18 June 1843.
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
Repsher was born in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, in December 1804. As a young man, he was a sailor. By 1840, Repsher and his wife, Roxena Higby Repsher, were living in Springfield. Daniel Repsher, who later became the captain of the Maid of Iowa, may have had some earlier involvement with the boat’s operation. (Patriarchal Blessing for Daniel Repsher, 19 Nov. 1844, in Patriarchal Blessings, 7:166; Record of Seventies, bk. B, 27; Affidavit for Daniel Repsher, 25 Oct. 1819, U.S. Customs Service, Proofs of Citizenship Used to Apply for Seamen’s Certificates for the Port of Philadelphia, Reel 22; 1840 U.S. Census, Springfield Township, Sangamon Co., IL, 16; JS, Journal, 14 May 1844; Clayton, Journal, 11–12 May 1844.)
Patriarchal Blessings, 1833–. CHL. CR 500 2.
Record of Seventies / First Council of the Seventy. “General Record of the Seventies Book B. Commencing Nauvoo 1844,” 1844–1848. Bk. B. In First Council of the Seventy, Records, 1837–1885. CHL. CR 3 51, box 2, fd. 1.
Record Group 41, Records of the Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation, 1776–1973. National Archives, Washington DC.
Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
One definition of a mill is an engine. There is no known evidence of the Maid of Iowa receiving a new engine at this time. It is possible that the mill was a hand mill, similar to grinders for coffee or spices that were in use in the 1840s, for use in the steamboat galley. (“Liabilities of the S.B. ‘Maid of Iowa,’” 12 May 1843; Maid of Iowa Balance Sheet, 1 Oct. 1842–12 May 1843; Maid of Iowa Ledger, 10 Dec. 1842–12 May 1843, Newel K. Whitney, Papers, BYU; Enders, “Steamboat Maid of Iowa,” 321–335; see also the full catalog entry for Coffee Mill, ca. 1840, Calk Family Collection, 1744–1978, in the Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, catalog.)
Enders, Donald L. “The Steamboat Maid of Iowa: Mormon Mistress of the Mississippi.” BYU Studies 19, no. 3 (Spring 1979): 321–335.
Lorin Walker and his sister Jane Walker were two of the ten children of John and Lydia Holmes Walker. The Walkers were converts from Vermont who migrated to New York and then to Missouri in 1837 or 1838. The family was in Nauvoo by the spring of 1842. By this time, Lydia Holmes Walker had died; John Walker entrusted the care of some of his children to other church members. (Obituary for John Walker, Deseret News [Salt Lake City], 24 Nov. 1869, 496; “Record of the Names of the Members . . . in the Spring of the Year 1842,” [2]–[3]; Walker and Stevenson, Ancestry and Descendants, 22–24, 28–31, 38–39.)
Deseret News. Salt Lake City. 1850–.
“A Record of the Names of the Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints, as Taken by the Lesser Priesthood, in the Spring of the Year 1842, and Continued, to Be Added as the Members Arrive at the City of Nauvoo, Hancock County; Illinois. Also the Deaths of Members, and Their Children, and Names of Children under 8 Years of Age,” after 1844–after 1846. Far West and Nauvoo Elders’ Certificates, 1837–1838, 1840–1846, 1862. CHL.
Walker, Rodney Wilson, and Noel C. Stevenson. Ancestry and Descendants of John Walker, 1794–1869. 2nd ed. Salt Lake City: John Walker Family Organization, 1985.
In her later account, Jane Walker recounted being taken to Springfield by a “Brother Sayers,” not Daniel Repsher. (Walker and Stevenson, Ancestry and Descendants, 38–39.)
Walker, Rodney Wilson, and Noel C. Stevenson. Ancestry and Descendants of John Walker, 1794–1869. 2nd ed. Salt Lake City: John Walker Family Organization, 1985.