Without Disclosing My True Identity
(also widely known as History of Joseph Smith, By His Mother) (1853: Independence: Herald, 1969) 92.
(Hereafter referred to as: Lucy Smith, Progenitors.)
(^122) DHC, 7:231–43, 268–9.
(^123) For an interesting, although inaccurate, account of William Smith, his relationship with
Brigham Young, and his call to be patriarch, see Irene M. Bates, “William Smith, 1811–93: Problematic
Patriarch,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 16.2 (Summer 1983): 13–24.
(^124) Samuel Smith, 36, born March 13, 1808; died July 30, 1844. (DHC, 4:189; 7:213, 221–2.)
(^125) Alvin Smith, 27, born February 11, 1798; died Nov. 19, 1824. Don Carlos, 25, born Mar. 25,
1816; died Aug. 7, 1841 (DHC, 1:2; 4:189, 393.)
(^126) DHC, 7:418.
(^127) William wrote and published a tract titled, “A Proclamation, and Faithful Warning
to all the Saints scattered around...,” in September 1845. (A shortened version of this was
printed later titled, “Faithful Warning to the Latter Day Saints,” published in St. Louis,
Missouri, in Oct.1845.) It was then reprinted a few weeks later in the 29 Oct. 1845 edition of The
Warsaw Signal, a newspaper published in Warsaw, Illinois (about 20 miles south of Nauvoo).
This can be found at: William Smith, “A Proclamation,” The Warsaw Signal 2:32 (29 Oct. 1845):
Uncle Dale’s Readings in Early Mormon History, 1 Jan 2006, Dale R. Broadhurst, 29 Nov. 2010
http://sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/IL/sign1845.htm#pagetop.
(^128) DHC, 7:483.
(^129) See Irene M. Bates and E. Gary Smith, Lost Legacy: The Mormon Office of Presiding Patriarch
(Urbana: University of Illinois P, 1996).
(^130) See ch. 39, subheading titled “Joseph Smith III—Joseph’s Successor...”
(^131) DHC, 7:247.
(^132) “On April 6, 1847, Bishop Newel K. Whitney became the first presiding bishop for the
entire Church.” (William G. Hartley, “Bishop, History of the Office,” in Encyclopedia of Mormonism, 4
vols., ed. Daniel H. Ludlow [New York: Macmillan, 1992] 1:119.) Sustained on 8 Oct. 1848 (DHC,
7:629). See also Donna Hill, Joseph Smith: The First Mormon (Midvale: Signature Books, 1977) 449.
(^133) Seniority in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in August 1844 was, in order,
Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Orson Hyde, Parley P. Pratt, William Smith, Orson Pratt,
John Taylor, John E. Page, Wilford Woodruff, George A. Smith, Willard Richards, Lyman
Wight, and Amasa M. Lyman. Brigham Young would later ensure that John Taylor succeeded
him as Church President by realigning the seniority in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. On
April 10, 1875, Taylor became President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, removing Orson
Hyde from the position in which he had served since Dec. 27, 1847, a period of over 27 years, due to
the “technicality” of an earlier disfellowshipment for about 2 months in 1839. (See Gary James
Bergera, “Seniority in the Twelve: The 1875 Realignment of Orson Pratt,” Journal of Mormon History,
18:1 [Spring 1992]: 19–58 and “Chronology of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (LDS Church),”
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 15 Oct. 2011, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., 27 Jan. 2012
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_the_Quorum_of_the_Twelve_Apostles_%28LDS_Ch
urch%29#1840.
(^134) Willard Richards would become Brigham Young’s Second Counselor in the First
Presidency, from 1847 until his death in 1854. Additionally, Richards became the territorial secretary
under Brigham Young and founding editor of the Deseret News as well as Church historian from 1842
for the rest of his life.
(^135) See Biloine Whiting Young, Obscure Believers: The Schism of Alpheus Cutler (St. Paul:
Pogo Press, 2002).
(^136) See commentary on James J. Strang in chapter 39.
(^137) See Peter Amann, “Prophet in Zion: The Saga of George J. Adams,” The New England
Quarterly 37 (Dec. 1964): 477–500.