Footnotes
Oliver Cowdery and Elizabeth Ann Cowdery, to Hyrum Smith, Power of Attorney, 5 Sept. 1837, Kirtland, OH, Hyrum Smith, Papers, CHL; Johnson and Romig, Index to Early Caldwell County, 47; Land Patents for Oliver Cowdery, Caldwell Co., MO, nos. 7869, 7870–7872, 8666, 8785, General Land Office Records, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of the Interior.
Smith, Hyrum. Papers, 1834–1843. CHL.
Johnson, Clark V., and Ronald E. Romig. An Index to Early Caldwell County, Missouri, Land Records. Rev. ed. Independence, MO: Missouri Mormon Frontier Foundation, 2002.
General Land Office Records. Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of the Interior. Digital images of the land patents cited herein are available at http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/.
John Whitmer, Far West, MO, to Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer, Kirtland Mills, OH, 29 Aug. 1837, Western Americana Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Whitmer, John. Letter, Far West, MO, to Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer, Kirtland Mills, OH, 29 Aug. 1837. Western Americana Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
Vilate Murray Kimball, Kirtland, OH, to Heber C. Kimball, Preston, England, ca. 10 Sept. 1837, Heber C. Kimball, Collection, CHL.
Kimball, Heber C. Collection, 1837–1898. CHL. MS 12476.
On the process for filing and recording documents with government offices, see An Act to Provide for the Filing and Reporting the Decisions of the Supreme Court [20 Mar. 1835], Revised Statutes of the State of Missouri [1835], 217–219.
The Revised Statutes of the State of Missouri, Revised and Digested by the Eighth General Assembly, During the Years One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-Four, and One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-Five. Together with the Constitutions of Missouri and of the United States. 3rd ed. St. Louis: Chambers and Knapp, 1841.
JS and Emma Smith by Hyrum Smith to George Beebe, Deed, 17 Oct. 1837, Historical Department, Nineteenth-Century Legal Documents Collection, CHL.
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Charles H. Foot handwriting ends; John Cleminson begins.
The filing mentioned here likely refers to this filing notation made by Cleminson on 16 October. No records indicate that a duplicate of the original power of attorney was made.