Footnotes
For additional details on the events leading to the deaths of JS and Hyrum Smith, see Oaks and Hill, Carthage Conspiracy.
Oaks, Dallin H., and Marvin S. Hill. Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1975.
This song was originally written as a fourteen-stanza poem in December 1826 by English poet James Montgomery, who titled it “The Stranger and His Friend.” Put to music in 1835, the song entered Mormon hymnody in 1840 when it was published in the first Mormon British hymnal—the “Manchester Hymnal”—under the direction of Brigham Young, Parley P. Pratt, and John Taylor. The song is a first-person account of a person befriending a stranger who finally reveals himself as Jesus Christ. (Walker, “John Taylor: Beyond ‘A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief,’” 81–88.)
Walker, Jeffrey N. “John Taylor: Beyond ‘A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief.’” In Champion of Liberty: John Taylor, edited by Mary Jane Woodger, 63–109. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.
Hyrum Smith’s personal copy of Josephus’s writings was a one-volume 1830 edition translated by William Whiston and published in Baltimore by Armstrong and Plaskitt and Plaskitt & Co. (The Works of Flavius Josephus.)
The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by William Whiston. Baltimore: Armstron and Plaskitt and Plaskitt, 1830.
A guard of seven men from the Carthage Greys was at the jail. The remainder of the Greys were “in camp” a quarter mile away. (“Statement of Facts,” Times and Seasons, 1 July 1844, 5:563.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
William or Wilson Law or both.
Markham had procured a pipe and tobacco for the ailing Richards and was returning to the jail when “a man by the Name of Stewart” told him to leave Carthage in five minutes. Markham refused, at which point Stewart charged him with his bayonet. Markham knocked him down and was quickly surrounded by the Carthage Greys, who warned him that he would be killed unless he left Carthage. The men eventually forced Markham onto his horse “with the points of their Bayonets” and escorted him out of Carthage. (Stephen Markham, Fort Supply, Utah Territory, to Wilford Woodruff, 20 June 1856, Historian’s Office, JS History Documents, ca. 1839–1860, CHL.)
Historian’s Office. Joseph Smith History Documents, 1839–1860. CHL. CR 100 396.
“Jail” refers to the “crim[i]nals cell,” located on the second floor of the building, as was the room JS and his companions were staying in. (Richards, Journal, 25 June 1844.)