Footnotes
Lorenzo Wasson et al., Nauvoo, IL, to David Hale, Independence, PA, 12–19 Feb. 1841, typescript, CHL; Ellen E. Kristjanson, San Marcos, CA, to Donald Schmidt, Salt Lake City, 12 Mar. 1984, CHL.
Wasson, Lorenzo D. Letter, Nauvoo, IL, to David Hale, Independence, PA, 12–19 Feb. 1841. Typescript. CHL. MS 7395.
Kristjanson, Ellen E. Letter, San Marcos, CA, to Donald Schmidt, Salt Lake City, UT, 12 Mar. 1984. CHL.
See David and Ira P. Hale Papers, 1827–1888, BYU.
Hale, David. Ledger, 1827–1869. David and Ira P. Hale, Papers, 1827–1888. BYU.
Footnotes
David Hale left his home in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, in 1839 and initially moved southwest to Brooke County, Virginia, before eventually settling in Amboy, Illinois. (Staker and Jensen, “David Hale’s Store Ledger,” 106; David Hale, Ledger, David and Ira P. Hale, Papers, BYU; 1840 U.S. Census, Brooke Co., VA, 218; “Brooke County, Property Book for 1841,” in Brooke Co., VA, Personal Property Tax Lists, 1797–1851, microfilm 2,024,494, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.)
Staker, Mark L., and Robin Scott Jensen. “David Hale’s Store Ledger: New Details about Joseph and Emma Smith, the Hale Family, and the Book of Mormon.” BYU Studies 53, no. 3 (2014): 77–112.
Hale, David. Ledger, 1827–1869. David and Ira P. Hale, Papers, 1827–1888. BYU.
Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
Soon after his baptism into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on 20 March 1842, Wasson was sent as a traveling missionary to New Jersey and Pennsylvania. (Lorenzo Wasson, Philadelphia, to JS and Emma Smith, Nauvoo, IL, 30 July 1842, in Times and Seasons, 15 Aug. 1842, 3:891.)
See Isaac Hale, Affidavit, 20 Mar. 1834, in “Mormonism,” Susquehanna Register, and Northern Pennsylvanian [Montrose, PA], 1 May 1834, [1]. In his manuscript history, JS noted that Emma’s father, Isaac Hale, “was greatly opposed to our being married.” Hale’s dissatisfaction with JS corresponded with a broader distrust of JS propagated by local ministers, in particular Hale’s brother-in-law Nathaniel Lewis, a prominent Methodist in the Harmony, Pennsylvania, area. (JS History, vol. A-1, 8, 53; Nathaniel Lewis, Affidavit, 20 Mar. 1834, in “Mormonism,” Susquehanna Register, and Northern Pennsylvanian, 1 May 1834, [1].)
Susquehanna Register, and Northern Pennsylvanian. Montrose, PA. 1831–1836.
Anderson, Ancestry and Posterity of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale, 302.
Anderson, Mary Audentia Smith. Ancestry and Posterity of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale: With Little Sketches of Their Immigrant Ancestors All of Whom Came to America between the Years 1620 and 1685, and Settled in the States of Massachusetts and Connecticut. Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1929.
Wasson seems to be drawing upon the tradition of Protestant martyrology made popular with publications like John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs and John Bunyan’s writings, including The Heavenly Footman and Pilgrim’s Progress.
See Titus 3:5.
Flavius Josephus wrote extensively on the history of the Jews. Hyrum Smith owned an 1830 copy of Josephus’s writings collected in a one-volume edition of six hundred pages, entitled The Works of Flavius Josephus. His copy is available at the Church History Library.
After suffering persecution in northwestern Missouri during fall 1838 and being expelled from the state in early 1839, many church members moved to Quincy, Illinois, before relocating to what would become Nauvoo, Illinois, and other settlements on the banks of the Mississippi River in Iowa Territory. (Introduction to Part 3: 4 Nov. 1838–16 Apr. 1839; Introduction to Part 4: 24 Apr.–12 Aug. 1839.)
Lorenzo D. Wasson handwriting ends; Emma Smith begins.
Emma Smith and JS had last seen the Hale family in September 1830, when they moved from Harmony, Pennsylvania, to Fayette, New York. They had been living on property they were in the process of purchasing from Isaac Hale, and the move was precipitated by increased opposition in Harmony and difficulty between JS and Hale. (JS History, vol. A-1, 53; Agreement with Isaac Hale, 6 Apr. 1829.)
Emma Smith’s mother, Elizabeth Lewis Hale, was left a widow in Harmony, Pennsylvania, after her husband, Isaac, passed away in 1839.