| 513 George Miller had by revelation been appointed Bishop to succeed Edward Partridge, deceased.
On Monday, January 24, Mary, wife of Samuel H. Smith, died. 3 Saturday, January 30, 1841, at a special conference held at Nauvoo, President Joseph Smith was appointed "sole Trustee in Trust for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints."
Some murmurings of discontent and threats of violence
also the president of the deacons and his counselors, and also the president of the stake and his counselors: The above offices I have given unto you, and the keys thereof, for helps and for governments, for the work of the ministry, and the perfecting of my saints, and a commandment I give unto you that you should fill all these offices and approve of those names which I have mentioned, or else disapprove of them, at my general conference, and that ye should prepare rooms for all these offices in my house when you build it unto my name, saith the Lord your God. Even so. Amen.
3 DIED.-In this city, January 25, Mary, consort of Samuel E. Smith, aged thirty-one years. She has left four small children, an affectionate companion, and numerous relatives and friends to mourn her loss, a loss which is easier felt than described. Mrs. Smith was one of the first who embraced the fullness of the gospel in the New England States. She was a resident of the city of Boston, Massachusetts, surrounded with friends and the comforts of life; but there was no sacrifice too great for her to make for Jesus Christ and his cause, and in A. D. 1833, in company with Miss Coolbrith (now the companion of my bosom), she bade farewell to friends and connections and everything most dear, and traveled the distance of one thousand miles to Kirtland, Ohio, with no human protector but the one above-named, to associate with the saints, in obedience to the commands of God and the instructions of the inspired prophets and apostles.
She has ever manifested a willingness to endure persecution and affliction for Christ's sake, and it has been her lot to suffer much for the sake of the gospel; her companion being stripped of his goods and made desolate by the enemies of truth, they suffered much in journeying to Missouri, being exposed for the want of the comforts of life. They located in Daviess County, Missouri, and while in childbed she was driven from her home by an infatuated mob, and exposed to a violent storm in the midst of an open prairie for several days, which brought her nigh unto death; she however recovered to witness more distressing scenes, all of which would be lengthy to enumerate, and too disgraceful to harrow up the soul of the reader. We will state, however, that before she had recovered of her illness, her companion had to flee for his life and leave her to the mercy of an infuriated community, while he wandered through the wilderness for the space of fourteen days without seeing one white inhabitant, and the most of the time without food. The reader can judge that her journey to Illinois must be attended with suffering, being robbed of their all. But she is gone-she "rests from her labors," she has been patient in all her afflictions-has kept the faith, and will inherit eternal life, which is the greatest gift of God.-ED.-Times and Seasons, vol. 2, pp. 324, 325.
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