Footnotes
Swanson, Sagers Clan, 28–45.
Swanson, Ella Sagers. The Sagers Clan: William Henry Harrison Sagers and His Descendants, with Shields, Smith, Martin and Other Related Lines. Tucson, AZ: By the author, 1980.
Benjamin Winchester, Payson, IL, to Ebenezer Robinson and Don Carlos Smith, Commerce, IL, 18 June 1839, in Times and Seasons, Nov. 1839, 1:11; 1840 U.S. Census, Hancock Co., IL, 175.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.
Terrill was serving as an agent for the Times and Seasons in New Orleans. Luddington spent his winters in New Orleans and summers in Nauvoo for several years. (“List of Agents,” Times and Seasons, 1 Feb. 1841, 2:310; Goodman, “Elam Luddington,” 242–243.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Goodman, Michael A. “Elam Luddington: First Latter-day Saint Missionary to Thailand.” In Go Ye into All the World: The Growth and Development of Mormon Missionary Work, edited by Reid L. Neilson and Fred E. Woods, 241–259. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2012.
“Summary,” Times and Seasons, 1 Mar. 1841, 2:339.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
“News from the South,” Times and Seasons, 15 June 1841, 2:445–447.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
See “Mormon Preaching,” Daily Picayune [New Orleans], 3 Apr. 1841, [2].
Daily Picayune. New Orleans, LA. 1837–1914.