Footnotes
See Nauvoo Female Relief Society, Petition to Thomas Carlin, ca. 22 July 1842, in Derr et al., First Fifty Years of Relief Society, 136–141; and Minutes, 22 July 1842.
Derr, Jill Mulvay, Carol Cornwall Madsen, Kate Holbrook, and Matthew J. Grow, eds. The First Fifty Years of Relief Society: Key Documents in Latter-day Saint Women’s History. Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2016.
In condemning his enemies and stating that he would ultimately triumph over adversity, JS echoed sentiments he had expressed in a 29 August discourse to the elders of the church. In that sermon, he denounced all those who had worked against him. (See Discourse, 29 Aug. 1842.)
In early September, JS wrote a letter to the church in which he instructed the Saints that proxy baptisms for the dead should be witnessed by a recorder. (See JS, Journal, 4 Sept. 1842 [D&C 127]; and “Tidings,” Times and Seasons, 15 Sept. 1842, 3:919–920.)
| Mary Goff | Mary M. Dodge |
| Sarah Stewart | Esther Ann Gheen |
| Catharine Head | Elizabeth Study |
| Nancy Dickson | Ann Green |
| Loisa Eager | Martha J. Corey [Coray] |
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| Mrs. Winnegar [Mary Winegar] | 1, | 00 |
| Delany Parker | .. | 12½ |
| [blank] Newell | 1, | 25 |
| Polly T. Hyde | 1, | 00 |
| E. Modsley [Elizabeth Maudsley] | 6 | |
| Anna Smith | 50 |
Roxsena Higby married Daniel M. Repsher in New York in 1824. According to a reminiscent account of Daniel Repsher, the couple learned about the church while living in New York and moved to Kirtland, Ohio, in 1835. Although Roxsena appears to have joined the church in Kirtland by 1837, Daniel apparently was not baptized until 1843. By August 1842 she had separated from him for undocumented reasons. After their separation, Daniel married Hannah Walton in 1846, while Roxsena was sealed to James Adams of Springfield, Illinois, as a plural wife in 1843. (See Biographical Sketch of Daniel Repsher, in “Record of the Seventeenth Quorum of Seventies,” Seventies Quorum Records, CHL; Minute Book 1, 20 Nov. 1837; and Roxsena Adams, Affidavit, Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, 13 Oct. 1869, in Joseph F. Smith, Affidavits about Celestial Marriage, 1:86.)
Seventies Quorum Records, 1844–1975. CHL. CR 499.
Smith, Joseph F. Affidavits about Celestial Marriage, 1869–1915. CHL. MS 3423.
JS may have been referring here to Roxsena Higby Repsher claiming her own revelations or to her accepting the revelations of James Colin Brewster. As a ten-year-old boy in Kirtland, Ohio, in 1837, Brewster claimed to have received visions that included unknown books of ancient scripture. Brewster and his small group of supporters, which included Repsher, were brought before the Kirtland high council on 20 November 1837 for “giving heed to revelations said to be translated from the book of Moroni by Collin Bruister & for entering into a written Covenant different from the articles & covenants of the church of the Latter day saints & following a vain & delusive spirit.” Repsher appears to have been one of several followers of Brewster who were unwilling to repent. They were disfellowshipped by the Kirtland high council but do not appear to have been excommunicated. Extant sources do not indicate when Repsher’s fellowship in the church was restored. ( Minute Book 1,20 Nov. 1837; for more on James Colin Brewster, see Vogel, “James Colin Brewster,” 122.)
Vogel, Dan. “James Colin Brewster: The Boy Prophet Who Challenged Mormon Authority.” In Differing Visions: Dissenters in Mormon History, edited by Roger D. Launius and Linda Thatcher, 120–139. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.