Appendix G: Documented Ray County Militia Participants in the Battle of Crooked River

Name: Source

Samuel Bogart: Cited in most all sources containing accounts of the Crooked River Battle.

Wylie Blyth: ZSC, 1.

Asa Cook: DOC, 148–49; MRP, 533.

________ Clark (wounded): PBR, 424.

Wyatt Craven (wounded—prisoner): DOC, 109; HCLC, 130; MU, 73–74; PBR, 205; RPM, 23.

Martin Dunnaway (wounded): HCLC, 130.

John Estes: AJS, 10; OCP, 35.

Thomas H. Loyd (wounded): HCLC, 130; THL, 1.

John Lockhart (wounded): AAJ, 157; DOC, 142, 149; HCLC, 130; OCP, 35; 142.

Wiley Mayes: RM, n.p.

Edwin Odell (wounded): HCLC, 130.

Nehemiah Odle: DOC, 108.

Dotson Rowland: ZSC, 1.

Moses Rowland (killed): DOC, 109; HCLC, 130.

John Stone: RM, n.p.

Samuel Tarwater (wounded): CM, 9; HCLC, 130–31. HRCM, 657; PBR, 424; RM, n.p.; ZSC, 1. ^[404]

Abbreviations of Sources

AAJ: Andrew Jenson, Autobiography of Andrew Jenson. Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1938.

AJS: Allen Joseph Stout, “Autobiography of Allen Joseph Stout,” typescript, Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

CM: Christopher Merkley, Biography of Christopher Merkley. Salt Lake City: J. H. Parry & Company, 1887.

DOC: Document Containing the Correspondence, Orders, &C. in Relation to the Disturbances with the Mormons; And the Evidence Given Before the Hon. Austin A. King, Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit of the State of Missouri, at the Court–House in Richmond, in a Criminal Court of Inquiry, Begun November 12, 1838, on the Trial of Joseph Smith, Jr., and Others, for High Treason and Other Crimes Against the State. Fayette, Missouri: Boon’s Lick Democrat, 1841.

HCLC: History of Caldwell and Livingston Counties, Missouri, Written and Compiled From the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources, Including a History of Their Townships and Villages, Together With a Condensed History of Missouri; a Reliable and Detailed History of Caldwell and Livingston Counties—Their Pioneer Record, Resources, Biographical Sketches of Prominent Citizens; General and Local Statistics of Great Value; Incidents and Reminiscences. St. Louis: National Historical Company, 1886.

HRCM: History of Ray County, Missouri: Carefully Written and Compiled from the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources, Including a History of Its Townships, City, Towns, and Villages, Together with a Condensed History of Missouri. St. Louis: Missouri Historical Company, 1881.

MRP: Clark V. Johnson, ed. Mormon Redress Petitions: Documents of the 1833–1838 Missouri Conflict. Provo: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1992.

MU: John D. Lee, Mormonism Unveiled; Including the Remarkable Life and Confessions of the Late Mormon Bishop, John D. Lee. St. Louis: Moffatt Publishing Co., and Cleveland: C. C. Wick & Co., 1881.

OCP: Peter Hardman Burnett, An Old California Pioneer by Peter H. Burnett, First Governor of the State. Oakland: Biobooks, 1946.

PBR: Portrait and Biographical Record of Clay, Ray, Carroll, Chariton, and Linn Counties, Missouri. Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1893.

RM: “Mormon Troubles in Ray County,” Richmond Missourian, 7 November 1901. ^[405]

RPM: Reed Peck, “The Reed Peck Manuscript,” typescript, Salt Lake City: Utah Lighthouse Ministry, n.d.

SBL: Samuel Bogart to the Postmaster at Quincy, Illinois, 22 April 39, LDS Church Archives, Salt Lake City, Utah.

THL: Thomas H. Loyd, “Petition for the Benefit of Thomas H. Loyd,” Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri; photocopy, MSS 19, box 9, folder 14, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

ZSC: Zarah S. Cole, “Memo of Conversation of Zarah S. Cole With G. A. Smith in H.O. [Historical Office],” manuscript, LDS Church Archives, Salt Lake City, Utah. ^[406]