May 27, 1842
Joseph Smith stayed at home and took medicine for a bilious attack.
Personal Life
June 29, 1842
Joseph Smith married Eliza Roxcy Snow, sister of Lorenzo Snow, as a plural wife.
July 11, 1842
Joseph Smith bought a horse, which he named Jo Duncan after Joseph Duncan, Whig candidate for Illinois governor, who had attacked Mormon charters. Joseph Smith supported Duncan's opponent, Democrat Thomas Ford.
July 15, 1842
After finding a despairing letter by Orson Pratt and fearing that he intended to take his own life, Joseph organized a search for him. Elder Pratt returned that evening.
July 16, 1842
Joseph Smith rode out to the prairie with his clerk William Clayton, hoed some potatoes, and dined with Cornelius P. Lott, who maintained Joseph Smith's farm.
July 17, 1842
Joseph Smith attended a meeting at a grove near the Nauvoo Temple but became sick and stayed at home the rest of the day.
July 27, 1842
Joseph Smith took Sarah Ann Whitney, daughter of Newel K. and Elizabeth Ann Whitney, as a plural wife. The ceremony was performed by Sarah Ann's father.
August 4, 1842
Joseph Smith and fifteen other brethren practiced fencing with Colonel Brewer.
August 11, 1842
Joseph Smith held a private council after dark with his wife Emma, his brother Hyrum, and a few others at the lower end of an island in the river. His legal position was discussed and lawyers were retained to represent him in Iowa and Illinois.
August 13, 1842
Joseph Smith's wife Emma eluded detection by the sheriff while taking a carriage to visit her husband, who was in hiding.
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