- Rhoda Richards, Affidavit, May 1, 1869, Joseph F. Smith, Affidavit Books, 1:17, 4:17, published in Joseph Fielding Smith, Blood Atonement and the Origin of Plural Marriage, 75.
- Joseph Smith, Journal, June 12, 1843, in Scott H. Faulring, ed., An American Prophet’s Record: The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith, 387.
- George A. Smith, Letter to Joseph Smith III, October 9, 1869.
- Jenson, “First list of wives,” Document #1, Andrew Jenson Papers, MS 17956, Box 49, fd. 16.
- Jenson, “Rhoda Richards biographical information sheet,” Document #15, in Andrew Jenson Papers, MS 17956, Box 49, fd. 16.
- Jenson, “Plural Marriage,” 234.
- Nauvoo Temple proxy marriage to Joseph Smith, January 31, 1846, in Brown, Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and Anointings, 284.
- Wilford Woodruff, “Historian’s Private Journal,” (one volume, 1858-1878), undated statement written between a July 1, 1866 entry and a November 18, 1874 entry.