Source Information
About LDS Redress Petition Listing, 1843
Sometimes family member signed the petition sequentially, sometimes not. At times the wife would sign in the doubled-column pages, in the right-hand column, opposite her husband. There are indications that some members of the LDS Church living in Nauvoo at the time did not sign the petition. There is evidence that some adult members of families signed while others did not.
It is the conclusion of some researchers that a number of the individuals whose signatures are included in the petition, were never in Missouri, but they signed it in support of their friends and neighbors, and family members who were.
The petition is not divided into any apparent sub-divisions, but based on other studies of Nauvoo and surroundings areas, there is strong evidence that is was taken somewhat similar to the 1842 census of Nauvoo, and is divided as follows:
Nauvoo 4th civil ward, pages 3-8
Nauvoo 3rd civil ward, pages 9-25
Nauvoo 1st civil ward, pages 26-30
Nauvoo 2nd civil ward, pages 31-36
Outlying areas around Nauvoo, probably including Warsaw, pages 37-44
Ramus, pages 45-49
Lima, pages 50-56+