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Female Relief Society of Nauvoo
A church organization for women; created in Nauvoo, Illinois, under JS’s direction on 17 March 1842. At the same meeting, Emma Smith was elected president, and she selected two counselors; a secretary and a treasurer were also chosen. The minutes of the society...
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Nauvoo
Principal gathering place for Saints following expulsion from Missouri. Beginning in 1839, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints purchased lands in earlier settlement of Commerce and planned settlement of Commerce City, as well as surrounding areas....
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, Hancock Co., IL, 12 May 1842. Version copied [ca. 12 May 1842] in Relief Society Minute Book, pp. [43]–[46]; handwriting of
Eliza R. Snow
21 Jan. 1804–5 Dec. 1887. Poet, teacher, seamstress, milliner. Born in Becket, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts. Daughter of Oliver Snow and Rosetta Leonora Pettibone. Moved to Mantua, Trumbull Co., Ohio, ca. 1806. Member of Baptist church. Baptized into Church...
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Asterisk (*) denotes a "featured" version, which includes an introduction and annotation. Minutes, 12 May 1842 Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book
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against <whom> widows, hold notes; if they will not pay them, ought to be discountenanc’d by the
Relief Society
A church organization for women; created in Nauvoo, Illinois, under JS’s direction on 17 March 1842. At the same meeting, Emma Smith was elected president, and she selected two counselors; a secretary and a treasurer were also chosen. The minutes of the society...
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Sister Chapman’s case was represented—

Mov’d & carried that Sister Chapman’s garden should be plowed.

Kezia Morrison said if some one would plow said garden, she would pay from the store

Sist. Matthews propos’d to send a man to plow it.

Motion’d & carried that those persons who refuse to pay poor widows what is due them, be forever discountenanc’d by this Society.

Mov’d & carried that those men who refuse to pay sister Hillman, what she holds in notes against them, be complain’d of at the Masonic Lodge.

The following donations were then received

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Amanda [Barnes] Smith
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— donated 1. 00

Martha Sessions — do .. 62

Catharine [Paine] Wilkie 2. 00

Percinda Ball . 62

Mary J. Warner 75

Susan McArthur 25

Elizabeth Rolfe 50

Adah Coleman 12½

Sarah Higbee children’s clothes 25

Hannah Marsh 12½ 25

Mary A. Hyde 12½

Emeline Carlin[g] Gold Pin

Nancy King 25

Annis Thompson 62½

Caroline Tomlinson 1. 75

Sabra Gribble 1 Bed Quilt 2. 00

After singing by the choir & pray’r by
Prest.
The highest presiding body of the church. An 11 November 1831 revelation stated that the president of the high priesthood was to preside over the church. JS was ordained as president of the high priesthood on 25 January 1832. In March 1832, JS appointed two...
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J. Smith, the meeting adjourn’d at 6 o.clock [p. [46]]
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Minutes, 12 May 1842
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