- Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner, Affidavit, March 23, 1877.
- Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner, “Autobiography,” 18–20.
- Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner, Letter to Emmeline B. Wells, Summer 1905.
- Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner, Address given at BYU, April 14, 1905, 2.
- Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner, Statement, February 8, 1902.
- Emmeline B. Wells, Letters to Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner, February 10, March 12, June 22, 1887.
- Mary Lightner, James H. Rollins, and John D. T. McAllister, Letter to John Taylor, May 22, 1882.
- Mary Lightner, Letter to President Woodruff, October 7, 1887; Mary Lightner, Letter to Wilford Woodruff, October 9, 1887.
- Eliza R. Snow, “First list of wives,” Document #1, Andrew Andrew Jenson Papers, MS 17956, Box 49, fd. 16.
- Nauvoo Temple proxy marriage to Joseph Smith, January 17, 1846. Brown, Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and Anointings, 282.
- Andrew Jenson, “Mary Lightner biographical sheet,” Document #3, Andrew Jenson Papers, MS 17956, Box 49, fd. 16.
- Jenson, “Plural Marriage,” 234.
- L. John Nuttall, Diary, April 18, 1884; Jedediah S. Rogers, ed., In the President=s Office: The Diaries of L. John Nuttall, 1879–1892, 123.