- Josephine Rosetta Lyon Fisher Affidavit, February 24, 1915, LDS Church History Library; MS 3423_1_48.
- Eliza R. Snow, “First list of wives,” Document #1, Andrew Jenson Papers, MS 17956, Box 49, fd. 16.
- Unsigned, undated, and unnotarized documents in Joseph F. Smith Affidavit Books 1:60, 4:62.
- Angus Munn Cannon, “Statement of an Interview with Joseph Smith, III, 1905, Regarding Conversation on October 12, 1905,” MS 3166.
- Nauvoo Temple proxy marriage to Joseph Smith, January 26, 1846; Brown, Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and Anointings, 283.
- Proxy sealing to Joseph Smith, April 4, 1899, under the direction of President Lorenzo Snow, Salt Lake Temple Sealing Records, Book D, 243, GS film, 184,590, LDS Family History Library; Tinney, “The Royal Family of the Prophet Joseph Smith Junior: First President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,” 41, 63.
- Orson F. Whitney, Life of Heber C. Kimball (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1945), 419.
- Jenson, “Sylvia Sessions biographical information sheet,” Document #12, Andrew Jenson Papers, MS 17956, Box 49, fd. 16.
- Jenson, “Plural Marriage,” 234.
- Joseph Smith III, Letter to Bro. E. C. Brand, n.d. [likely early 1880s] Letter Press Book #4, 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.
- Quoted in D. Michael Quinn PapersCAdditionCUncat WA MS 244 (Accession:19990209-c), Box 1CCard fileCTopic: Polygamy, Joseph Smith’s. I have been unable to find the original of this letter. See also letter from John Lyman Smith to D. H. Cannon, [n.d.] 1895, LDS Church History Library, which substantiates that Joseph advised that Sarah be sealed to him but live with her legal husband. (back)