Footnotes
See John S. Fullmer, [Nauvoo, IL], to George D. Fullmer, Nashville, TN, 28 Mar. 1841, in Fullmer, Letterbook, 124; Letter to Smith Tuttle, 9 Oct. 1841; and JS, Nauvoo, IL, to Isaac Galland, [Keokuk, Iowa Territory], 17 Jan. 1842, JS Collection, CHL.
Fullmer, John S. Letterbook, 1836–1881. John S. Fullmer Journal and Letterbook, 1836–1881. CHL.
“Obituary of Leo Hawkins,” Millennial Star, 30 July 1859, 21:496–497.
Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star. Manchester, England, 1840–1842; Liverpool, 1842–1932; London, 1932–1970.
“Letters to and from the Prophet,” ca. 1904, 1, Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
Footnotes
Don Carlos was going to Cincinnati with Ebenezer Robinson to “settle with Mr. Shepherd, and also to lay in a stock of paper and other printing material,” as Robinson later recalled. Don Carlos and Robinson had been coeditors of the Times and Seasons and had also printed a new edition of the Book of Mormon in 1840. (Ebenezer Robinson, “Items of Personal History of the Editor,” Return [Davis City, IA], June 1890, 287.)
The Return. Davis City, IA, 1889–1891; Richmond, MO, 1892–1893; Davis City, 1895–1896; Denver, 1898; Independence, MO, 1899–1900.
Don Carlos Smith, Nauvoo, IL, to Oliver Granger, Kirtland, OH, 14 Feb. 1841, Don Carlos Smith, Letters to Oliver Granger, 1841, CHL.
Smith, Don Carlos. Letters to Oliver Granger, 1841. CHL.
“Death of General Don Carlos Smith,” Times and Seasons, 16 Aug. 1841, 2:503.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Letter to Oliver Granger, 4 May 1841; Letter to Oliver Granger, 30 Aug. 1841. Kirtland lot 8 in block 113 was bonded to Granger’s son Gilbert Granger from Daniel Carter in September 1841, and the bond was transferred to Agnes Coolbrith Smith in March 1842. (Daniel Carter to Gilbert Granger, Bond, Kirtland, OH, 16 Sept. 1841, JS Office Papers, CHL.)
TEXT: Likely “was”.
Don Carlos still owed money on several accounts in Ohio, including two notes for forty dollars each to “Van Boskirk & Ring of Painesville,” as well as a note for sixty dollars with approximately forty dollars of interest accrued. (Don Carlos Smith, Nauvoo, IL, to Oliver Granger, Kirtland, OH, 14 Feb. 1841, Don Carlos Smith, Letters to Oliver Granger, 1841, CHL.)
Smith, Don Carlos. Letters to Oliver Granger, 1841. CHL.
The year of 1839 was particularly difficult for many members of the church who had recently settled in Commerce (later Nauvoo), Illinois. High temperatures and proximity to the marshy land lining the Mississippi River led to rampant illness. Don Carlos Smith and his coeditor, Ebenezer Robinson, along with their families, became ill in July 1839. Robinson later recalled that as they were in the early stages of printing the first issue of the Times and Seasons, they both “were taken down with the chills and fever, and what added to our affliction, both our families were taken down with the same disease.” According to Robinson, they were sick for about ten months. (Ebenezer Robinson, “Items of Personal History of the Editor,” Return [Davis City, IA], May 1890, 257, italics in original.)
The Return. Davis City, IA, 1889–1891; Richmond, MO, 1892–1893; Davis City, 1895–1896; Denver, 1898; Independence, MO, 1899–1900.
Annual payments on the Nauvoo city properties purchased from Horace Hotchkiss, John Gillet, and Smith Tuttle were due at this time, and JS was actively seeking methods of making those payments. (See Authorization for Hyrum Smith and Isaac Galland, 15 Feb. 1841; and Report of Agents, ca. 30 Jan. 1841.)