Ellis [Eames] Ames' Haun's Mill Massacre Account

Intro to the Ames Family

Ellis [Eames] Ames, mentioned in Will Bagley, ed., Frontiersman: Abner Blackburn's Narrative (Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press, 1992), 17.

Daniel Ashby, “Statement,” in the Missouri House of Representatives, Missouri Republican, 24 December 1838, Document Containing the Correspondence, orders, &C, in Relation to the Disturbances With the Mormons. . . (Fayette, MO: Boon's Lick Democrat, 1841), cited in Leland Gentry, "History of the Latter Day Saints in Northern Missouri."

Alexander L. Baugh, A Call to Arms: The 1838 Mormon Defense of Northern Missouri, Ph.D. dissertation, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, 1996.

Joseph Smith Black, "The Journal of Joseph Smith Black," Kate B. Carter. ed., Our Pioneer Heritage, 10 (1967): 291.

Alma R. Blair, "The Haun's Mill Massacre," BYU Studies, 13 (Autumn 1972): 62-67.

David Deming, affidavit, Clark V. Johnson, ed., Mormon Redress Petitions: Documents of the 1833-1838 Missouri Conflict (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, BYU, 1992), 440.

Ellis Eamut, “Reminiscence,” Journal History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 30 October 1838, LDS Family and Church Historical Archives, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Historical Events in the life of David Evans

Warren Foote, “Autobiography of Warren Foote,” L. Tom Perry Special Collections, BYU Library, Provo, Utah, 27.

Margaret Foutz, “Narrative of the Haun's Mill Massacre,” in Edward W. Tullidge, The Women of Mormondom (New York, NY: n.p. 1877).

Margaret Mann Foutz, Account of Haun's Mill, 28 December 1876, Pleasant Grove City, Utah, typescript provided by Karen Wilhelm, descendant, Haun's Mill, Subject Folder Collection, P86, f30, Community of Christ Library-Archives.

History of Austin Hammer and Nancy Elston

John Hammer, “Reminiscence,” in Lyman Omer Littlefield, Reminiscences of Latter-day Saints (Logan, UT: The Utah Journal Company, 1888), 66-76.

Account of R. J. Hammer, Grandson of Austin Hammer

Nancy Jane Hammer, "Sketch and Short History of Austin Hammer and wife Nancy Elston," cited in Alvin K. Benson, ”The Haun's Mill Massacre: Some Examples of Tragedy and Superior Faith,” Arnold Garr and Clark Johnson, eds., Regional Studies in Latter Day Saint Church History, Missouri, (Provo, UT: Department of Church History and Doctrine, 1994), 105-117.

Haun's Millstone at Breckenridge, Missouri

History of Caldwell and Livingston Counties, Missouri . . . (St. Louis, MO: National Historical Company, 1886).
    Isaac Leany, 159.

Return I. Holcombe (Burr Joyce), “The Haun's Mill Massacre,” St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 27 September 1887, in Joseph Smith III, and Heman C. Smith, History of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Independence, MO: Herald House, 1967).

Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, T. Jeffery Cottle, and Ted D. Stoddard, eds., Church History in Black and Whit: George Edward Anderson's Photographic Mission to Latter-day Saint Historical Sites, 1907 Diary and 1907-08 Photographs (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1995).

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

Andrew Jenson, ed., The Historical Record, Vol. 6 (Salt Lake City, 1888), 83-84.
    Vol. 7: 671.

Andrew Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia 4 vols., (Salt Lake City, UT: Andrew Jenson History Company, 1901).
    Thomas McBride, 3:680.

Clark V. Johnson, ed., Mormon Redress Petitions: Documents of the 1833-1838 Missouri Conflict (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, BYU, 1992).

Mrs. L. W. Kimball, Statement, Ms 3142, LDS Family and Church History Department, Archives, Salt Lake City, UT.

Biography of Isaac Leany, 1815-1873, in Autobiography of Willaim Leany, "Struggles of an 1847 Pioneer," typescript, L. Tom Perry Special Collections Library, BYU, Provo, Utah.

John Doyle Lee, Zealot- Pioneer Builder- Scapegoat (Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark, 1962), 36-37.

David Lewis, Journal, Ms 5142, typed transcription by Fawn Brodie, LDS Family and Church Historical Archives, Salt Lake City, Utah.

David Lewis, “Narrative,” Times and Seasons, Nauvoo, Illinois, 1 (August 1840): 145-150.

FAMILY HISTORY OF TARLTON LEWIS 1805 - 1890, LDS Family and Church Historical Department Archives, Salt Lake City, Utah.

LIVING BY HAUN'S MILL, Zelma Filson, Hamilton, Missouri.

Artemisia Sydney Myers, Account of Haun's Mill, from Mrs. Lillian Petersen, Mesa, Arizona, a granddaughter of Artemisia Myers, via Norman Myers, Fremont, Nebraska, Haun's Mill, Subject Folder Collection, P86, f30, Community of Christ Archives.

Jacob Myers Biography

James McBride, “Autobiography of James McBride,” typescript, L Tom Perry Special Collections Library, BYU, Provo, UT.

Hiram Rathbun, obituary, Herald, 45 (1898): 452.

Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Abstract of Evidence [Independence, Missouri] Temple Lot Suit, Complainant's Abstract of Pleading and Evidence (Lamoni, Iowa: Herald House, 1893).
    Charles Ross, 267-68.

Jacob Potts and Levi Stiltz, Clark V. Johnson, Mormon Redress Petitions: Documents of the 1833-1838 Missouri Conflict (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1992), 320-21.

B.H. Roberts, ed., History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 7 vols., 2d ed. Rev. (Salt Lake City, UT: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints).
    Joseph Young, Narrative of the Massacre of Haun's Mill, Vol. 3: 183-86.

MARTHA HENDRYX SAMPSON

Amanda Barnes Smith, “Statement,” in Emmeline B. Wells, “Amanda Smith,” Woman's Exponent, 9 (1 April 1881, 1 May 1881, and 15 May 1881).

Amanda Barnes Smith, “Reminiscence,” in Edward W. Tullidge, Women of Mormondom (New York: n.p., 1877).

Jane Walker Smith, ”Jane Walker Smith Story,” in Kate B. Carter, ed., Our Pioneer Heritage, 19 (1976): 205.

Joseph Smith III and Heman C. Smith, History of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 8 Vols. (Independence, Missouri: Herald House, 1967).
    Olive Ames, 2: 234-5.
    Nathan Knight, 2:254.
    Amanda Smith, 2:249.

Willard Smith, Missouri Mormon Frontier Foundation Newsletter, 18/19 (Fall 1998): 2.

Mormon Land Owners in Vicinity of Haun's Mill, Missouri Mormon Frontier Foundation Newsletter, 26 (Spring 2001): 6, 7, 8.

Edward Stevenson, Diaries, 16 September 1888, LDS Family and Church Historical Department, Archives, Salt Lake City, UT.

Joseph Young, Narrative of the Massacre of Haun's Mill, in B. H. Roberts, ed., History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 7 vols., 2d ed. Rev. (Salt Lake City, UT: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), Vol. 3: 183-86.