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Show 1846 wea . the mob t.ook p08se51on of the 01 ty. To ennoy the poor exiles ot the tenr,91e, ring tho bll, and ocoasio1'lallY.fire eo oannonball aoross the river. "y fS:"tler worked. a.long as fast us he coUld e nd finally goil to the Den l :Oines River, where he at.opped for th winter. He got e. j 00 cut1iil'lg oord womd and. working or! a mill ne;8.rby. J3y gpl"'j.ng h.e W9,S le to' get a yoke of oxen. Tho 111"l.ce vhere l1e erta..yed wa,® about four rJiles from FaT:. ington. <@:Ui te t\ nu..moer of th.e b1 ttremt of th..e pel"'meeutorl of the ltTo:uuons lived in this vic:J.r.d.ty. Some of the brethren were hung v..ntil near ly dead; others. wero whipped nearly to death, one was fo"md in tt.e 'ftlOO"le shot. At every hol"oS race or shooting f:latch ;he e.nemies were aro"lsod ant3w, and threst.tened the 1iormOl'lG wi th death. 'V,ie \vera threa.tel'led several times during the winter and l.1V0d in e o011'an"t state of alarm. For aeeral nights my father and my brother-in law, J. C 1.,. SIni th, sat up nearly the el'ltire night wi th gUl'lS in rnd, expecting every moment to b0 attacked. AG prj,ng a:Pl,roached. Vle trid to make a 11 ttle rn}?le !3ugar B to up 1)1 €!'ftent our. slender stook o-r talu!'111iee. 13ut our enemf ea took Q\r.ray our troughs and such thinga to prevent UB from rmiking any. Thl9 we t1ero in dang e'r of our 11 veta and tLoy would asoend to/the top ... .. - . .. lJrei?ar&tion , ,. mado to continue oontil'1Ully annoyed. j ourney , and. on liay left for the watt fteeling ratefu.l too get away from our onom0e. We arrived at Council Point on the lassourl River '1ay 23, 1847. This plaG is about four miles from Council Bluffs, then KnEsvilleCl H'.l)re we .found "many iaints who, like oxrfjelve13" had to hal t to obtail'l mee.ns to journey ftlrther west. .1ff.1Rny had perished crossing the statG of .Iowa, and. their iraves poil:r'Ged O\\t our line of. nrch. later generations will never lrnow ·wha.t it cost tl'l0 L.. ttcr Day Saints to settle the Great }3ain. The toile, bardship, and numbers who t'ell by the wayside from exposure cell navel'" be told. :But we hld. to make the sacrifice p 111 or we wer€; not perm! tted to 11 va in the Uni ted Sta.taa. Vie re1nGd here for three years before Tie were tl)le to go further. We were destitute of olothing and prov1sion$ At one time threo weeks paseed during whioh Wf) had nothing to eat but }\t certain aeaaona of the year, however, there were green ·corn. 2l'lal'lY geeaa, ducks, prairie chiokens; eta. to keep starvation awe::! J'Vty father built sa log houae , fenoed so:me la..d, put in cozn , and did all he oould to improve our mea,rtea, but there were many He would work e-venin,g,a l'naking ax handles to market dre.wbaoks. t but they sold for only ten cents apf e ce My brother-in-law, J. C. L. Smith, tnught school during. the winter 1847-1848 •. I we2 poorly o Lad but attended the school and mada very good progresfl for a boy of my years. In the spring he and my sister, Sarah, started for the mountains with a scanty outf! t., During the spring of l848 F. D. Richards, one of our old neighbors in ltall'Voo stopped. with us a short tiree, .and hiewisit wafS greatly appreciated. H0 had juert come frot:! U'te.h waa on his way to ]Jngla..nd on a miaalon. ]Ii!! brother, Franklin Ihaharda Flsh, was born at Council Point April 12, .1848. l:y eld.eGt sister, Julia, Vlas rnarr:led. in the spring ot 1849 to Edw'ard. Washington Thompson, d a few weeks afterward they started. for Utuh. Eefore her marriage ahe had taught school for six years, most of the time away from home. 8, 1847 we were our . . . . • . . J . , .. al1. |
