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Eliza R. Snow Evidences

Sealed June 29, 1842

  • Eliza R. Snow, Affidavit, June 7, 1869, Joseph F. Smith, Affidavit Books, 1:25, 4:25.
  • George A. Smith, Letter to Joseph Smith III, October 9, 1869.
  • Malissa Lott and Eliza R. Snow, “First list of wives,” Document #1, Andrew Jenson Papers, MS 17956, Box 49, fd. 16.
  • Eliza R. Snow, “Sketch of My Life,” holograph, Bancroft Library, Berkeley, California, In Maureen Ursenbach Beecher, ed., The Personal Writings of Eliza Roxcy Snow (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2000), 16–17.
  • Eliza R. Snow, qtd. in J. J. J., “Two Prophets’ Widows: A Visit to the Relicts of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young,” St. Louis Globe-Democrat, August 18, 1887, 6.
  • William Clayton, Affidavit, February 16, 1874, MS 3412. In Jenson, “Plural Marriage,” 225.
  • Nauvoo Temple proxy marriage to Joseph Smith, February 3, 1846. Brown, Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and Anointings, 284.
  • Jenson, “Eliza R. Snow Smith biographical information sheet,” Document #18, in Andrew Jenson Papers, MS 17956, Box 49, fd. 16.
  • Jenson, “Plural Marriage,” 233.
  • Joseph Smith III, Letter to Bro. E. C. Brand, n.d., [likely early 1880s] Letter Press Book #4, pp. 63–67, P6, Community of Christ Archives.
  • Benjamin F. Johnson, My Life’s Review, 96.
  • [Oliver Olney?], uncatalogued manuscript, Western Americana, Beinecke Library, Yale University, Folder labeled “Nauvoo Female Society.” Some of the writing on the document is dated October 18, 1843.1
  1. The document contains two sides of writing in pencil and ink with different handwriting apparently written on different dates. The first part on one side is an application for Susan McGee Calbertson to join the “friendly famel society” dated “21 [indecipherable] 1843.” The remaining handwriting and style appears to be that of Oliver Olney, but how he would have come into possession of this paper is unknown. It lists eight of Joseph Smith’s plural wives: Louisa Beaman, Agnes Smith, Eliza R. Snow, Emily Partridge, Eliza Partridge, Mrs. Sylvia Lyons, Mrs. P. Sessions, and Mrs. Granger. A transcription of this document by Michael Quinn is found in D. Michael Quinn PapersCAdditionCUncat WA MS 244, accession:19990209-c), Box 1CCard fileCTopic: Polygamy, Joseph Smith’s.  (back)