​Las siguientes fuentes respaldan la inclusión de Fanny Alger como esposa plural de José Smith:

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• Eliza R. Snow, “First list of wives,” Document #1, Andrew Jenson Papers, MS 17956, Box 49, fd. 16.

• Mosiah Hancock, Narración añadida a Levi Hancock Autobiography, 63.

• Oliver Cowdery, Carta a Warren Cowdery, 21 de enero de 1838, Oliver Cowdery Letterbook.

• Far West High Council members [miembros del Sumo Consejo de Far West] , en Donald Q. Cannon y Lyndon W. Cook, eds., Far West Record: Minutes of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830–1844, 167–68, 12 de abril de 1838.

• Sellamiento vicario a José Smith el 4 de abril de 1899, bajo la dirección del Presidente Lorenzo Snow, Salt Lake Temple Sealing Records, Book D, 243, GS film, 184, 590, LDS Family History Library; Tinney, “The Royal Family of the Prophet Joseph Smith” 41, 63.

• Benjamin F. Johnson, Letter to George F. Gibbs, 1903, 38–39. Dean R. Zimmerman, ed., I Knew the Prophets: An Analysis of the Letter of Benjamin F. Johnson to George F. Gibbs, Reporting Doctrinal Views of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, 38–39.

• William McLellin, Carta a José Smith III, Julio de 1872.

• William McLellin, citado en J. H. Beadle, “Jackson County”, Salt Lake Tribune, 6 de octubre de 1875, 4.

• “Historicus” [seudónimo], “Sketches from the History of Polygamy: Joseph Smith's Especial Revelations”, 1.

• Eliza Jane Churchhill Webb, Cartas a Mary Bond, 24 de abril y 4 de mayo de 1876.

• Ann Eliza Webb Young, Wife No. 19, 1875, 66–67.

• Chauncey Webb, citado en Wyl [seudónimo de Wilhelm Ritter Von Wymetal], Mormon Portraits or Joseph Smith the Prophet, His Family and His Friends: A Study Based on Facts and Documents (1886), 57.

• John Hawley, Autobiography, Enero de 1885.

• Jenson, “Fanny Alger biographical sheet,” Document #10, Andrew Jenson Papers, MS 17956, Box [caja] 49, fd. [fólder] 16.

• Jenson, “Plural Marriage,” 233; Joseph Fielding Smith, Blood Atonement and the Origin of Plural Marriage, 75.