Footnotes
Andrus et al., “Register of the Newel Kimball Whitney Papers, 1825–1906,” 5–6.
Andrus, Hyrum L., Chris Fuller, and Elizabeth E. McKenzie. “Register of the Newel Kimball Whitney Papers, 1825–1906,” Sept. 1998. BYU.
Footnotes
JS History, vol. A-1, 213.
Revelation, 9 Feb. 1831 [D&C 42:30–34].
See, for example, Revelation, 20 May 1831 [D&C 51].
Revelation, 20 July 1831 [D&C 57]; Revelation, 1 Aug. 1831 [D&C 58].
An Act concerning Dower [Mar. 20 1835], Revised Statutes of the State of Missouri [1835], p. 228, secs. 1–2; Shammas et al., Inheritance in America, 67–68.
The Revised Statutes of the State of Missouri, Revised and Digested by the Eighth General Assembly, During the Years One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-Four, and One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-Five. Together with the Constitutions of Missouri and of the United States. 3rd ed. St. Louis: Chambers and Knapp, 1841.
Shammas, Carole, Marylynn Salmon, and Michel Dahlin. Inheritance in America: From Colonial Time to the Present. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1987.
Revelation, 9 Feb. 1831 [D&C 42:30–38]; Revelation, 20 July 1831 [D&C 57:7]; Revelation, 1 Aug. 1831 [D&C 58:35–36].
JS History, vol. A-1, 213.
Ira J. Willes, Statement, 20 May 1862, CHL. Ira Willes, who moved to Missouri with the Colesville Saints in the summer of 1831 and later prepared a list of the Colesville members that migrated at that time, listed Molly Slade as a widow as well, but she was apparently separated from her husband, who chose to remain in New York when the Colesville Saints migrated to Ohio in 1831. (See Hartley, Stand By My Servant Joseph, 112.)
Willes, Ira J. Statement, 20 May 1862. CHL. MS 4050.
Hartley, William G. Stand by My Servant Joseph: The Story of the Joseph Knight Family and the Restoration. Provo, UT: Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2003.
Hartley, Stand By My Servant Joseph, 146, 177; “Rogers, Mr. Henry R.,” in Inscriptions on the Headstones in the Cemetery at Afton, Chenango Co., N.Y. (formerly part of Brimfield), microfilm 973,007, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.
Hartley, William G. Stand by My Servant Joseph: The Story of the Joseph Knight Family and the Restoration. Provo, UT: Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2003.
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
The published version of this revelation in the January 1833 issue of The Evening and the Morning Star places a comma here to clarify that this is something given “in addition to the laws of the church,” not “in addition to the laws of the church concerning women and children.” (See “Items in Addition to the Laws for the Government of the Church of Christ, Given April, 1832,” The Evening and the Morning Star, Jan. 1833, [6].)
The Evening and the Morning Star. Independence, MO, June 1832–July 1833; Kirtland, OH, Dec. 1833–Sept. 1834.
TEXT: Possibly “father<s>”.
Later deeds of consecration contained similar language, stating that upon the death of the individual consecrating the property, “his wife or widow, being at the same time a member of the church, has claim” on the property “upon precisely the same conditions that her said husband had them.” Deeds also stated that orphans had claim on their parents’ inheritance “for their support, until they shall become of age.” Under Missouri law, children came of age when they were twenty-one. (James Lee and Edward Partridge, Agreement of Consecration, ca. 1832–1833, incorporated as part of Edward Partridge, Jackson Co., MO, to “Honored Father” et al., 22 Oct. 1834, Edward Partridge, Papers CHL; Tipton v. Montgomery [Mo. Sup. Ct. 1824], Missouri Supreme Court Historical Database, 1790–1880, MSA; Adams v. Harmon [Mo. Sup. Ct. 1833], Missouri Supreme Court Historical Database, 1790–1880, MSA.)
Partridge, Edward. Papers, 1818–1839. CHL. MS 892.
Missouri Supreme Court Historical Database, 1790–1880. MSA.
Although the revelation begins with a statement about children who had lost their fathers, the remainder of the revelation does not explain how the church would help such children. Perhaps for this reason, the version of this revelation that Frederick G. Williams recorded in Revelation Book 2 sometime in 1834—as well as the published version in the 1835 edition of the Doctrine and Covenants—replaced “for inheritences” with “if their parents have not wherewith to give them inheritancs and the storehouse shall be kept by the consecrations of the church that widows and orphans shall be provided for as also the poor.” (See Revelation Book 2, p. 93; and Doctrine and Covenants 89, 1835 ed. [D&C 83:5–6].)