AFFIDAVIT OF MELISSA LOTT WILLES
Territory of Utah, County of Salt Lake. ss.
Be it remembered that on this twentieth day of May, A.D. 1869, personally appeared before me, James Jack a notary public in and for said county, Melissa Lott Willes, who was by me sworn in due form of law, and upon her oath saith that on the twentieth day of September, A.D. 1843, at the city of Nauvoo, county of Hancock, state of Illinois, she was married or sealed to Joseph Smith, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, by Hyrum Smith, Presiding Patriarch of said Church, according to laws of the same, regulating marriage, in the presence of Cornelius P. Lott and Parmelia Lott.
Melissa Lott Willes.
Subscribed and sworn to by the said Melissa Lott Willes, the day and year first above written.
[Seal.]
James Jack, Notary Public.