Nauvoo Neighbor reports the first suicide by a Mormon woman. She slit her throat with a straight-edged razor "in a state of mental aberration."
[Source: Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 7: Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47, http://amzn.to/origins-power]
"On Monday morning last [Sep.1], Mary Robinson, wife of Edward Robinson", ..."
ReplyDeleteat link below correctly dated for Sep.3rd but mislabeled under heading of Sep.10th (page 2, column 4):
http://boap.org/LDS/Nauvoo-Neighbor/