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Jacob Hamblin, a narrative of his personal experience, as a frontiersman, missionary to the Indians and explorer, [microform] disclosing interpositions of Providence, severe privations, perilous situations and remarkable escapes. Fifth book of the faith-p - Page 25 |
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Show DEATH OF MY MOTHER. 23 The same Mr. Johnson who had before administered to my wants, took me into his house. This was in the morning, and I knew nothing until ten o'clock in the evening. When I became conscious, I was lying on a mattress covered with blood. I looked around the room, and asked what it all meant. The lady of the house informed me what had hap-pened, and told me that Mr. Johnson did not expect me to \ ive. She further stated that he had called in some of the neighbors, that the doctor had been to see me and wished to bleed me, but I would not let him ; that I told them that if they knew where there were any of the Elders of Israel, I wanted them sent for. She informed me that I said other things which displeased the doctor and the neighbors, and they went away. I assured the family that I was not responsible for what I had said or done, for I knew nothing about it. Mrs. John-son said that she did not hear or see anything wrong, but the neighbors believed that I was trying to palm off some great " Mormon" miracle on them. I denied trying to deceive any one, but all to no purpose. The owner of the house I had rented hurried me out of it, saying I could not live in his house any longer. In the month of March I moved into the wagon, with my wife and four chil-dren, the youngest not two weeks old. On the llth of the following April, 1847, I arrived at my father's house, in Western Iowa. I had previously baptized four of my brothers, and all my father's family had embraced the gospel. My mother had sunk under hardships, and died on the road from Nauvoo, yet I was thankful to find all my relatives rejoicing in the truth. In the spring of 1850 I felt like making an effort to gather with the Saints in the mountains. This at first appeared im-possible, as my animals had all strayed off, and I could not learn of their whereabouts. I had concluded to remain another year, when I dreamed, for three nights in succession, where my oxen were, and went and got them. I found my other lost animals in the same manner, |