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
See Wiley, History of Monongalia County, West Virginia, 580; Biographical Review of Des Moines County, Iowa, 101; Obituary for Leannah Griffey Madera, Wisconsin Territorial Gazette and Burlington Advertiser, 24 Mar. 1838, [3]; “Appointments of the Governor,” Wisconsin Territorial Gazette and Burlington Advertiser, 25 Nov. 1837, [3]; and 1840 U.S. Census, Des Moines Co., Iowa Territory, 74.
Wiley, Samuel T. History of Monongalia County, West Virginia, from Its First Settlements to the Present Time with Numerous Biographical and Family Sketches. Kingwood, WV: Preston, 1883.
Biographical Review of Des Moines County, Iowa: Containing Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of Many of the Prominent Citizens of To-Day and Also of the Past. Chicago: Hobart Publishing, 1905.
Wisconsin Territorial Gazette and Burlington Advertiser. Burlington, Wisconsin Territory. 1837–1838.
Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.
See Deed from Robert and Mary Crane McQueen, 20 Feb. 1843; JS, Journal, 23 Feb. 1843; Warren Co., IL, Deed Records, 1817–1908, vol. 2, pp. 344–345, microfilm 1,392,671, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; and History of Mercer and Henderson Counties, 888–889. On 4 March 1843, JS spoke of Shokokon as a crucial part of the church’s ongoing settlement of western Illinois. He stated, “There is a wheel. this is the Hub we will drive the fir[s]t spoke in Ramus 2d— Laharpe. 3d Shokokon. 4. Lima that is 1/2 the wheel.” (JS, Journal, 4 Mar. 1843.)
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
History of Mercer and Henderson Counties: Together with Biographical Matter, Statistics, etc. . . . Chicago: H. H. Hill and Co., 1882.
See Reynolds, “Ecclesiastical Economics,” 144–145.
Reynolds, R. Philip. “Ecclesiastical Economics: Some Financial Considerations of Mormon Settlement in Illinois.” John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 32, no. 2 (Fall/ Winter 2012): 132–148.
Many suffered financial losses in the economic depression of the early 1840s. (See JS, Journal, 21 Feb. 1843.)
Coulson, Autobiography, 5.
Coulson, Lydia Ackerman Knapp. Autobiography, 1880. Photocopy. CHL.
JS History, vol. E-1, 1731; see also History of Mercer and Henderson Counties, 888–889.
History of Mercer and Henderson Counties: Together with Biographical Matter, Statistics, etc. . . . Chicago: H. H. Hill and Co., 1882.
Griffey had some previous experience with sawmills. He went into business with Solomon Sherfey and “operated a sawmill on Flint Creek and one in Illinois.” However, the business did not last long. In 1838, Griffey and Sherfey issued a notice of separation in a Burlington newspaper. (Biographical Review of Des Moines County, Iowa, 101; “Dissolution,” Wisconsin Territorial Gazette and Burlington Advertiser, 28 Apr. 1838, [3].)
Biographical Review of Des Moines County, Iowa: Containing Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of Many of the Prominent Citizens of To-Day and Also of the Past. Chicago: Hobart Publishing, 1905.
Wisconsin Territorial Gazette and Burlington Advertiser. Burlington, Wisconsin Territory. 1837–1838.