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Subpoena, 19 September 1842 [State of Illinois v. C. L. Higbee]
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on behalf of , Subpoena, to Sheriff [], for , , Emeline White, Amanda Gee, and Melissa Schindle, , Hancock Co., IL, 19 Sept. 1842, State of IL v. C. L. Higbee (Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court 1842); printed form with manuscript additions in handwriting of ; docket printed with manuscript additions by , [], Hancock Co., IL, [19 Sept. 1842]; two pages; location unknown; photocopy in possession of Richard and Pamela Price.
This document was filed at the , Illinois, circuit court in 1842. It apparently remained in the custody of the circuit court until at least 1979. By 1998, the two subpoenas issued by the circuit court for this case were in a “packet of documents” containing an assortment of “many papers which had to do with Joseph [Smith]” that had been “recently taken to Salt Lake City, Utah, but had been returned.” The context for the removal of these documents from the court and their return is unclear. Although clerks informed Richard and Pamela Price that “all of the Joseph Smith papers” had been recently microfilmed and were possibly available through The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, no microfilm that includes this subpoena has been located at the Family History Library or Church History Library.
The image featured here is a photocopy of the original document obtained by the Prices in 1968.
Footnotes
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Price and Price, Joseph Smith Fought Polygamy, 1:158. Church representatives returned many circuit court documents to Hancock County, Illinois, in 1986. Photocopies of the documents were retained by the Church Historical Department (now CHL), but none of them are affiliated with this case. (Turley, Victims, 346.)
Price, Richard, and Pamela Price. Joseph Smith Fought Polygamy: Volume 1. Independence, MO: Price Pub. Co., 2000.
Turley, Richard E., Jr. Victims: The LDS Church and the Mark Hofmann Case. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992.
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Price and Price, Joseph Smith Fought Polygamy, 1:159.
Price, Richard, and Pamela Price. Joseph Smith Fought Polygamy: Volume 1. Independence, MO: Price Pub. Co., 2000.
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Price and Price, Joseph Smith Fought Polygamy, 1:158.
Price, Richard, and Pamela Price. Joseph Smith Fought Polygamy: Volume 1. Independence, MO: Price Pub. Co., 2000.
Historical Introduction
Historical Introduction
1st Day. No. 23
s SUBPOENA FOR , , Emeline White, Amanda Gee & Melissa Schindle IN THE CASE OF The People vs
Circuit Court, Ill. TO October Term, A. D. 1842
I have served the within writ by reading the same to the within named [blank]
SHERIFF, Ill.
I cannot in my find the within named [blank]
SHERIFF, Ill.
Sheriff’s Fees:
| Services of Subpoena | $[blank] |
| Miles travel | [blank] |
| Returning Subpoena | [blank] |
| $[blank] |
Sheriff, ill. [p. [2]]
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Docket printed with mansucript additions in handwriting of M. Avise.