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Show -5- Joh...'1 Bushman c. iary 1902: July c"!.!ly 16: 1902: (Continued.) This is a ve r y hrge park on the shore or' Lake ·:i.::hir;an. We had a v ery plioasant time 4 hours. 1'Te wi shed all our families ·::ere here. In the evening we v,'ent our e9.st on the Lake shore a:i.ci had 3. fine v iew of the hke. Saw several ste'l.m b oats and the drawbridges moved £'o r tnel'.!1 to 'JS.SS• At 11 p.m. we all start on the 3u rlington R.R. for Montrose, Iowa. .m. bly 17: At 5 :30 a. .m. we got to Burlington, got breakfast and came dO'l'm the Mr. ReLr1b old took us on ferri; :'.ississippi River to Montrose at 8 :40 a boat over the river for lO_i and hack for 25Jt' up to Nauvoo to his Bras. notel. Here we met an old man, Thorna.s Kelly an old resident who told us many things about the rformon settling of Na uvoo and their ex;mlsion. Said the ministers were at the head of it a 11, b ecause of the salaries they were ~etting. Sa. id one hE..d acknowledged as much to him.. Said he did not believe God would reveq_l to another man anythi.'1.g he to all. 11-rnted him to know, he was an infide 1 ½ut -v1,a.s At 10 a.m.:M:r. 1:1 .c. Reimoold took us around tovm and showed us all the ~ormon (1. ~mes), where the temp le s toad, the we 11 is there and good. ?lucked sor.1e fiawers from the ground where the temple stood. to take home, They g row ?rofusely here. We sa-..r the p rophets residence (Nauvoo rhnsion) P .P .Pratts house, · Orson "r:i.tts house, '3. Youngs & Pres. Joseph Youngs . residence. Heb er Kimba lls residence, ?ras. Wo odruff residence, :?res. Snow's residence, 1.i '.filson I..a.ws residence, .,,nd many more. And he seemed much inter'3sted in showing us around and. explained hem che~? hnd was IIL<tny y ear s after S:·,t ints left. 'He were told tr..at there never had been as many people living · in Nauv-oo as when the Mormons vrere here. I tried to go to Emma Smith's gra.ve, but an old lady 1-1.ving there forbade me r oing in. Nauvoo is located on the east side of the great Mississippi river where it makes a half circle to the west. The temple was located on a prominance 1Nhere one c -3. n look directly up the river and directly down the river and it is just the same distance fror.i. the river north, west and south, a·oout one nile, each way or a little more. It is a. beautiful location for a temple and city. The crops look very thrifty in the city. Principal crop in the city is concord ~Y-a9e s which f!;row very thri::"ty-. They m·"_ke considerable wine. It is s1id there is about 1500 inhabi tB.nts in the city . The maj ority of the Old :!ormon re side nce s are brick, in a fo od state, considering the long time they ~ve stood. The :-;eop le seem to b e free from ~rejudic e 9..nd say this would have been , gre·:1.t city md the Sq_ints reIT1.::1.ined. Young Joseph Smith has some property r.ere t thece is 3. t r anc h o f their church near here. |
