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Show His 1 fe closely parall ls the istor or the !; O:Fr~O migl"at . n , beginning · n 1pper New York state wher_.e be be.eame a member tn v:arsaw , ~l~ ,. • on !r:arch 10 , 18Z,3, ' leavln, tmmedis.tely for Kirtland , '" hio , He wa .. ~ n the expedi. ~ion of ' Zi on's ca,:p'' I the two hundred me n wto 'Jent from J hi · to )•1issour1 t .) aid the . ~~ orrnons ,}' el-e in 1834., in the first detachr. ant, ura.velllng with Jo~eph Srr th art of the way . He was am se1onary at var'ous t ... es, trav-,; 11 ng sround Ca nada , to rlew York C ty 1 and around Ne'lli~ York Sta ·e ~ In 1838 he was d r:i ven out of Far V\.e st , !:11 ssour:1 ~ du:r)ing the per:;e cuti .-n of thE- ~,~ orr ons, going to Quincy, Illlnots . He w_d 1n Nauvoo, Illin 1s , and was one of the last to leave ~.n September, 1846, 1hen m~.;b violence was at its ··orst, gotn ; by ox-tea.~ to the ~, isaouri ~ where he spent the f' tret wtnt4> r th t.t Omaha. Indiana on the ~~l inter• Quarters s_ de , and. af' ter rar0 lived on t e Kunes vt ile s. de 1 n .... o~ a ~ . leavl ng the.re bJ ox-tc am nd covered wagon with :Edward Bun tar's cornpany for the Sal t La.ke Vslley in 18..:0 , In one of hi.s letters he says , uT rlve been driven from all I h ve and frot11 ell I had ~n pe nn1Qry affa" rs n~ s.rly , thr1.ce; twice I have been s cl unto deat · ~nee .·1 ven 1 p for dead for a half hour , nee given up to dtA by all who saw rr'e ~) Y Je.ans of exposure a.nd privation occasioned by ungodly 1~ob s l ed on in mo t cases by un odl y priests , '~ After s pending te 1 years in t he ~1 :·hth v·ard in ~a l t Lake Gity , livtng just oppos i te the present C1ty ana County Bull ing , he started a new· ploneer:t.ng vent·ure i n southern Utah 1~ l8Gl, going w th t.he f ir•st exploring group that arrived -2• ' |
